Actually my statement is technically correct. Savage's less than <2.5mV/m coverage was being affected and that constitutes fringe coverage. City grade coverage is 5mV/m and anymore with an increasing terrestrial noise from consumer devices, AM stations need to put a 10mV/m field for reliable reception. As someone else pointed out prior, whereas Savage's situation is unfortunate as a stand alone AM owner, his complaints have been found technically without merit.
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Actually my statement is technically correct. Savage's less than <2.5mV/m coverage was being affected and that constitutes fringe coverage. City grade coverage is 5mV/m and anymore with an increasing terrestrial noise from consumer devices, AM stations need to put a 10mV/m field for reliable reception. As someone else pointed out prior, whereas Savage's situation is unfortunate as a stand alone AM owner, his complaints have been found technically without merit.
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Yay! It will be nice to hear them again in this part of Texas.
KFI is an iHeart station and has been (as AMFM and Clear Channel) since 1999. Before that, and dating back to 1973, it was a Cox property.
You won't. The 5 kw station in Cd Juárez blocks them.
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rbrucecarter5
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I was concerned with the OKC station. That one I could null. But from the same direction - that is almost impossible.
Prior to iBuzz on KRLD, KNX was very easy to hear in the Dallas area. It would be almost impossible in Houston because of the local 1070.
You guys know CBS won't never turn there HD off on AM
CBS is the ONLY AM group running IBOC buzz in my region. iHeart dropped all AM IBOC in the region here. If the AM band was FCC circa 1983, I would be happy.
Why do you say that?
With a new CEO on a quest for cost efficiencies, we'd think that AM HD might be "defunded" as they dig deeper into costs and expenses.
So Dan Mason is out at CBS Radio?
He was for HD on his Stations, That's why David
He was for HD on his Stations, That's why David
Dan retired several months ago, and André Fernández is the new CEO. He comes from a financial background in investment banking, venture capital and such. Many feel he is working on cost reductions to "fatten the pig" for an eventual sale. Whatever the case, AM HD does not pass the ROI scrutiny of any business plan.
So you're saying HD might go dead on CBS Stations on AM
you're correct, my mistake.
Detroit market CBS stations dumped some great talent, but left HD on both AM stations to my surprise.
Not sure why that comes as a surprise. Once installed, AM HD doesn't cost anything to run. As what seems to be the case with those stations who have discontinued broadcasting AM IBOC/HD, once the HD exporter or HD exciter bite the dust, it's then when stations don't want to spend the money.
Is there an annual licensing fee that has to be paid to iBiquity (and its sucessors) or is it a one-time fee?
Likewise on FM-HD, do you have to pay a fee for each FM-HD stream (if you add an HD-2 and HD-2 is it a one-time or annual, or both?)
All our Cumulus dumped their HD's, so are they saving any license fees, or just power bills?
Likewise on FM-HD, do you have to pay a fee for each FM-HD stream (if you add an HD-2 and HD-2 is it a one-time or annual, or both?)
All our Cumulus dumped their HD's, so are they saving any license fees, or just power bills?
The annual fees are minimal, as is the power consumption.
FM HD's have to pay a tiny revenue share on the HD secondary channels.
As iBiquity said last month when the sale was announced, station revenues are a minuscule portion of the company revenue. They are also minuscule as a percent of station billings.
Kelly nailed it when h said that the main reason for abandoning AM HD is the failure of existing equipment. Given the state of AM in general, most operators choose to simply discontinue HD as it allows them to return to a better audio bandwidth for analog operation.
David, funny you mentioned the AM audio bandwidth, as our two iHeart/CCME/Jacor stations dropped HD on AM but they left their 5KHz brick wall bandwidth filters in place despite encouragement from me to return to standard NRSC 10.2KHz audio.
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