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AM OR NOT AM

J

JEREMIAH

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It's worse than we thought.

I was at my production house studios here in Vegas friday. I was talking with the crew about AM radio in ths market.
The 20 something office manager said. " I didn't know there still was AM radio".

Jerry Gordon
 
Doesn't AM stand for Antiquated Modulation ??
 
The highest rated AM station in LV gets a 1 share. Chances are more people listen to the Muzak at the fountain outside the Bellagio. Depending on the weather.
 
But with a decent FM Translator or two???? And the right format. Or boatloads of power. The number one station 12 plus in Reno is KOH (KKOH)...now its a boomer (50kw day; 25kw night) at 780...but still. To cut through all the noise you have to have gobs of power close in to the target city.
 
It wouldn't hurt for the FCC to immediately reverse their AM band-squeezing policies, and to (once again) mandate that the consumer electronics industry provide decent AM receivers as well. Just sayin'....

J-D
TWR
 
Since the FCC won't stop the madness exsisting stations have to spend a lot of time & $$$ to protect what they have.
550 KOAC Corvallis & 550 KUZZ Bakersfield have succeeded in scuttling the new 550 in Reno
"550 INVESTMENTS LLC" on interference issues.

For now anyway.
 
Kevin Fitzgerald said:
But with a decent FM Translator or two???? And the right format. Or boatloads of power. The number one station 12 plus in Reno is KOH (KKOH)...now its a boomer (50kw day; 25kw night) at 780...but still. To cut through all the noise you have to have gobs of power close in to the target city.
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Of course, in 18-49, that station averages about 10th... illustrating the problem that even good AMs have in getting under-50 listeners.
 
jondavidvox said:
It wouldn't hurt for the FCC to immediately reverse their AM band-squeezing policies, and to (once again) mandate that the consumer electronics industry provide decent AM receivers as well.
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Neither is very likely. The FCC doesn't like to mandate anything, and the CEA absolutely hates radio already.

The FCC is more concerned with selling spectrum to telecom than it is extending the life of AM.
 
some of these cheap cellphones have FM and no Am.. not that important with streaming on smart phone, but it does affect the low end listeners.
 
With the TUNE-IN app on a I-phone or Android phone, you can choose to listen to FM and AM anywhere you want, from any city that you want. It sort of makes having a regular portable radio/plug in radio obsolete, because you are not tied to just listening to the local market that you happen to live in. There's no static, no fade-in and fade out. I know, because I do it all the time. Also, I have the TV apps that I watch video news from L.A., San Diego, Phoenix and other cities at will. Sometimes, I watch streaming broadcasts... So, broadcasting over-the-air as we know it may be part of the history books, like pay phones and land-line phones.
 
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