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On Feb 15, 11:37?pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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For example, there is no vable AM in Washington, DC. Phoenix has only 2.
So
what you can see is that while a market may have well over a dozen viable
FMs, the number of AMs is tiny.

There are a ton of AM stations in the D.C area, which I never listen
to, anyway.

And not one is vable. Not one covers the entire metro day and night.

I read, that news/talk/sports on the "clears" on AM are
alive-and-well and command higher ad fees than FM.

As I said, this is not true. they get the same ad rates ("fee" is the wrong
word) per listener as any other station. And there are only 24 or 25 of
those stations (Former 1-A clears) in the whole country, out of nearly 5
thousand AM stations.


BTW, there is more-
and-more negativity surrounding HD Radio, and it is all but dead on AM

No, it isn't. Stations in mmajor markets with good signals (about 150
stations in the top 100 markets) either are or will be on with HD. The rest
don't matter as they have no audience and don't cover their markets.

- IBOC shall die, as DAB has in Canada. Analog AM will be around for
many years - too bad !

Analog AM is dying. Fast. HD may not save it, but there is a chance. Without
it, AM is fading and the only really big format news/talk, is starting to
move to FM where it attracts attractive listeners for advertisers that it
does not do on AM.

Consumers are not interested in HD Radio, as
75% of consumers are aware of HD Radio, but interest in HD Radio has
been flat-lined for two years:

Interesting, since the "official" launch was in the second quarter of 2006.