Doesn't FM get some credit/blame for that? We are talking 1969, here.
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AM Radio is dying
- Thread starter Ronnie Milsoup
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Even though I worked in the broadcast industry. I almost never listen to AM/FM radio. Because they don't play what I want to hear. And it became too easy to only hear what I want to hear. But last Thursday after leaving my mother's I did turn on the AM radio band to see if anyone was airing the NFL game. It was on an AM station that had a long legacy in town. But here is the rub. The AM site was built decades ago in the north east area of town. Because back then you had to throw 25 mV/m over the down town area. This is the area the town that really never ever grew in population. I'm in the south west part of town listening to audio with a ton of sky wave. In too many towns across America the town's footprint outgrew the station's signal. I guess I could have gone on a hunt for an FM translator. But decided to just turn the radio off and catch up on the game when I got home. I've owned this vehicle now for almost one year. I think this is the second time I tuned in on the AM band.
That's true of a lot of AM's. Or the signal was sent, for example, South thinking that's where the population is going, and instead the city grew to the East.
If it's an anomaly, it's a long-lived one. https://ratings.****************/content/arb043 says their last 4 numbers were 12.1, 12.5, 13.0, and then that 14.1.
Interesting contrast. Was the MSA the same then? If the MSA added counties later, then the percentage of difference would likely be less.
Good point, Racine County was added in the early 80s.
I am wondering what will happen in two weeks when The Charlotte Observer starts printing three days a week. Can you imagine waiting for news about something that happens after a late Friday deadline (so the Sunday paper can be mailed on Saturday) until the Wednesday paper is delivered? Of course, there's still TV. Unless that's delivered by the Internet too.
There are bound to be people who still get the paper who won't have computers. I wonder how they'll react?
If they haven't heard about it, it's news to them
That population is dwindling daily, Chimp - just have a read of the obituaries.
Oh, yeah - that's looking bleak as well. Might have to look at other places - like local funeral homes, who'll publish info there.
I've noticed a lot of obituaries aren't in the paper, because the paper charges.
Some of the AM radio stations have them.
I always assumed that was a public service!
Has been there a protest that has to do with AM radio or no?
I don't know about radio, but newspapers have been charging for obits for several decades. Many, though, waive the subscription requirement for online access. In addition, the funeral homes can post obits on their own websites, and papers that put everything behind a paywall will upload their obits to sites like legacy.com, which are free to access.
Papers will print free obituaries but they don't say enough to mean anything.
Numbers that small won't matter in the scheme of things. They'll bang their Hurrycane in anger, then will head off to dinner forgetting about the whole thing. I hear they're serving pork chops and apple sauce in the dining room this evening.
I began dialing into local bulletin board systems in 1986 at the age of 8 using a dumb terminal one of my parents had at home to access the corporate mainframe at their workplace. I quickly moved on to having Apple II, Amiga, and IBM keyboards under my fingers at one time or another. Technology has always been in my blood and my second language. In spite of that, I always preferred good old fashioned physical printed newspapers at the breakfast table to staring into the glowing maws of tablets, phones, or laptop screens. (I did that the rest of the day; why fatigue myself all the more?)
The reason I stopped reading newspapers was simple. I just couldn't have cared less about what they were reporting anymore. Kind of like how I feel about everything on AM radio.
Heh, maybe the print editions can keep themselves viable a little while longer by having Amazon's delivery trucks throw them at our houses at 4 AM from now on, instead of their own drivers.
The reason I stopped reading newspapers was simple. I just couldn't have cared less about what they were reporting anymore. Kind of like how I feel about everything on AM radio.
Heh, maybe the print editions can keep themselves viable a little while longer by having Amazon's delivery trucks throw them at our houses at 4 AM from now on, instead of their own drivers.
Amazon could, in theory, do that for the print edition of The Washington Post (which I do believe still exists), since they're under common ownership.
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No, Jeff Bezos owns it privately.
Robert Douglas
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Even us older music listeners cannot stand radio music anymore. It's just way too processed. Sounds artificial and dead.
This sounds like KFIG and KFPT in Fresno, but it could surely be hundreds of other places.
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