small market radio

[BigJimmy]

I doubt streaming on--line or using HD FM subchannels willl help many small market
AM Or FM stations survive. Seems many small AM & FM stations willl likely be gone in
years to come, ( off the air---- out of business). And its already happening in many
areas of the USA.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

What do you think will be the cause of many small stations being gone in a few years?

Do you think there is a way to "fix" the problem.... or do you think we just have to face some kind of reality that there is no place for small stations?

 

[thelegacy]

I've seen small FM stations get taken over by Big Corporate Radio since 1984. Case in point WILS-FM 101.7 in Lansing Michigan. It was an Album Rock station and went an average of about 40 miles (without DX conditions and without an outside antenna connected to your FM receiver). If I remember they were owned by Century communications at the time. In April of 1984 I woke up to find on a Sunday morning that the stations format was changed to Love Songs and they were called LS 102. Then in a few months they upped their power and it was known that they were no longer owned by Century communications.

Even WOCR a collage Radio station in Olivet Michigan just SW of Charlotte was no longer on the air. Too bad for this was the station I learned about Radio broadcasting from. It was a 10 watt station but their antenna was in a nice location and I was able to pick it up all the way to the west side of Grand Ledge Michigan on a Panasonic boom box with a little hiss but still in FM Stereo and with an outside Antenna connected to my FM Stereo I could pick it up on the west side of Lansing just east of Grand Ledge Michigan.

The moral of the story is that yes the Gig Wigs are killing what is left of creative Radio broadcasting from small stations. More and more small stations will be reaching to Internet Radio to broadcast to the masses. I see broadcast Radio going to the wasteland of Talk Radio in yrs to come and Music will be broadcast on Internet Radio, or satellite subscription Radio. The RIAA too is killing Radio for they just want more and more money in their greedy little hands.