Yesterday. Both stations play some Christmas music. I also listened on FM when I could, but there are too many bad songs or commercials.
Actually, my clock radio is on an AM station so I heard it before turning it off this morning.
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Actually, my clock radio is on an AM station so I heard it before turning it off this morning.
The first guest he had on was interesting, kind of an alarmist.
Former international coffee buyer David DuByne discussed the alarming state of global food production and its implications for humanity. Followed by medium Susanne Wilson, who explained the process of contacting spirits.
DuByne claims food prices are going to escalate... to where most working peoples' paychecks will go mostly to food and electricity.
I've always said presidents don't have some type of "lever" where they control food and gas prices. I remain consistent but will be good to blame another when his supporters so vehemently and viciously blamed the other.
Though I don't listen to commercial FM, I don't think there are hardly any FMs in my area that have local news, but could be wrong. I never hear news on FMs when am in shoppes.
I don't listen to Coast To Coast, but based on this statement, I'd say he does have a point, although I'd say housing
is where most of one's money will go, depending on where they live (CA has one of the highest median home prices in the nation, especially in urban areas, where rents are likewise quite high), followed by insurance (those in CA will pay substantially more for homeowner's policies in the majority of the state due to elevated fire risk, if they can get any at all). Electricity will be a close third (again in CA, the average energy bill is 2 to 3 times the national average, which hurts quite a bit, especially when it gets excessively hot or cold), followed by transportation (the average price per gallon for regular gasoline is a good $1-$2 more than the national average, though it has, thankfully, come down somewhat in recent months). Food would come in at #5 or 6, I think.
In short, California is a terrible place to live if one is broke 😵
What this has to do with broadcasting I'm not sure.
c
This morning I listened to 920 AM as I every morning for the last 5 years.
Here is how the owner of WABC is framing the proposed legislation:
www.insideradio.com
New York Owner John Catsimatidis Buys Ads As Part Of Campaign To Keep AM In Cars.
“Don’t buy a car without AM radio” says one of the ads that Red Apple Media owner John Catsimatidis is placing. The owner of talk WABC New York (770) is
Today, while driving....switched back and forth between KFI, XEPRS, XERCN, and XEBG. I listen to AM much, much more than FM, except at home. Then it's streaming. It's not that I prefer AM over FM, but for what I like listening to... all of it is only on AM.
That has been my point all along. People who live in big markets with all sports and all news on FM don't see the need for AM.
But People in smaller markets like Cincinnati or Dayton don't have Sports and News on FM.
And many of us don't want to pay $15 a month for SiriusXM.
Not just smaller markets, but in #2 LA, Sports is only on AM, as well as the leading Talk station KFI. I'm in market #19 San Diego, and if it wasnt for AM, I wouldn't have the choice of listening to 50kw KFI and KNX over 100 miles away. And then there are the Tijuana AM music stations, an amazing total of 8, with 3 of them playing English Oldies and Classic Hits.
Knoxville, TN-News-Talk and Sports Talk have been on FM since I've been here and that goes back to 2010.
I listened to AM this evening on my drive back to school, catching some of the 70s at 7 on CFZM 740 out of Toronto via skip.
I was also on AM radio earlier this evening, too. And I was listening to a lot of the 45s I was spinning through the air monitor. So I was listening then, too.
I should have said some smaller markets.
Of course there are small markets that have news and sports FM stations.
I was referring to the "why on earth would anybody listen to AM" people on this group.
In NC, SC, and GA, at least, which I’m quite familiar with…the AM band is basically zombie land, even in significant markets. Anything in the markets that has any potential for success is on FM with a translator or moved to FM entirely.
There isn’t anything on AM I’m interested in listening to (I’m 32 lol). Heck, my mom is in her 60s and I tried playing a music station on AM for her I thought she’d like and her response was “that sounds awful, shut that off!”
That being said, I’ll scan the AM dial every now and then out of curiosity but I haven’t found anything worth listening to on it in years. I know of people my age that listen to FM, but none of them are touching AM. It’s dead outside of certain markets, more than not.
There isn’t anything on AM I’m interested in listening to (I’m 32 lol). Heck, my mom is in her 60s and I tried playing a music station on AM for her I thought she’d like and her response was “that sounds awful, shut that off!”
That being said, I’ll scan the AM dial every now and then out of curiosity but I haven’t found anything worth listening to on it in years. I know of people my age that listen to FM, but none of them are touching AM. It’s dead outside of certain markets, more than not.
Lots of positive replies. But a question: why OTA and not streaming? Just curious.
Here is why many of us use OTA radio:
In many metro areas, in-car streaming is still subject to dropouts. Yesterday, I drove from the far SE side of our market to the far NW side on what is considered one of the two or three most direct routes through the market. We put on a streaming service that we have a subscription too, and lost signal or had a rough and spotty signal in over 15 separate locations.
On the way home in two cars (we went to pick up the second one) my partner and I started a non-stop phone conversation. On three occasions, we had to redial. On over 20 occasions we had "jagged" and unintelligible communication.
This was a roughly 35 mile trip in one of the most affluent MSAs in the nation. Yet our carrier, AT&T, could not even give us a service free of total disconnections. Friends who have Verizon and T-Mobile have the same complaints, but in different areas. And our market is a valley floor, almost totally flat and without even large groups of tall trees!
Because it's easy and instant. I walk over to the end table and twist a knob. Instantly I am rewarded with a program.
I don't have to sit through pre-roll ads, demands to download "apps" or audio buffering.
In older cars, you don't have the option of streaming through the car sound system.That means you have to stream through the phone with earbuds.Which I hate by the way, and you have to fiddle and fool with it if you want to make a change while you're driving as opposed to just pushing a button for another station
You can get a little transmitter to send a signal to your FM radio via Bluetooth
Guess I'm lucky. In my area we have lots of cell towers. I use T-Mobile but I understand the others are good also.
Remember the satellite phone service that came and went years ago? Too bad that didn't work out.