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WLW's Darryl Parks message to broadcast industry on AM Revitlization.

"The grim reaper of progressive talk" is an evil media ho, a lackey of Bain Channel who stirs up the crazies on their behalf by pandering to ignorance, hatred and bigotry. The fact that he has not been struck by lightning proves there is no god.
 
One listen to his Saturday morning show proves what a moron he is. He can't actually believe any of the things he says, and the "A Ohio State University" and "Columbus Enquirer, Cincinnati Edition" crap was never funny. The only reason I ever hear his show is my clock radio is set on WLW and sometimes I don't get up fast enough to switch it.
 
Goofy. Simplistic. For one thing, he doesn't like the "Ratchet Rule" because his employer owns a few Class As and the don't like the idea of nighttime interference on a couple of their 38 states of coverage. Fact is, you could juice a lot of AMs at night and they would NEVER interfere on the other stations metro coverage area, let alone their COL.
BTW, most engineers will tell you that this half baked translator idea would have made sense about 10 years ago when there were frequencies still available.
Thats all for now.
 
Especially in Cincinnati where Clear Channel has 3 translators already. Each of them only covers a portion of the market. The only why to squeeze in more translators would be if the FCC allows for some narrow band spacing.
 
I thought he made good points. I agree IBOC ought to go away. No matter who owns them, we should keep a few positions as free of interference as possible.
 
ignore this tool-bag.

Ignore this tool-bag. The way to revitalize AM radio is to put something on the air people want to hear. Something which WLW hasn't done in 20 years, since Bill Wills left. Darryl, you're BRILLIANT!
 
Gooch said:
Ignore this tool-bag. The way to revitalize AM radio is to put something on the air people want to hear. Something which WLW hasn't done in 20 years, since Bill Wills left. Darryl, you're BRILLIANT!
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If they haven't "done that in 20 years", why have they basically been #1 in ratings the last 10+ years?
 
With their aging demographic it will not matter that they are #1 very shortly. 20yrs ago WLW had a younger audience that knew what an AM radio was.

Here is a response Darryl Parks that addresses that very issue as well as man made interference on the band.

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...-darryl-parks-uses-station-blog-to-take-indus

ALL ACCESS VP/News-Talk PERRY MICHAEL SIMON did address this concern -- several times -- most recently on SEPTEMBER 13th in his weekly column. He wrote, "At the NAB/RAB RADIO SHOW Jamboree in ORLANDO next week, PAI will be there talking about the same thing, as he did in LAS VEGAS at the NAB Big Content Don't Call Us Broadcasters Hootenanny in the SPRING, and, sure enough, there'll be yet another "revitalizing AM Radio" panel at the convention next week, too. And as in Vegas, I'm sure there'll be a room full of people in suits raptly listening as the experts talk about going all-digital, jacking up power, shoehorning FM translators in everyplace (middle finger extended to LPFM applicants) to milk every last penny of value out of those AM licenses."

SIMON added, "Do I really need to say this again, guys? Come on. You know the deal. Even the previously unscathed monster 50,000-watt heritage stations are eroding. You can't fight demographics, you can't fix ambient electrical interference, you can't change this particular thread of history."

A CLEAR CHANNEL spokesperson had no comment on the blog.
 
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