On Mar 9, 5:31?am, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"HFguy" wrote in message

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David Eduardo wrote:

At the present rate, all AMs in a few years will be religious or niche
ethnic focused, once news-talk moves to FM. Sure, there will be AM
stations, but with nearly no listening and serving very tiny
constituencies.

Are you saying that FM will no longer be primarily a music medium? If so,
that will be the end of FM for me.

One or more FMs will be all talk... maybe even an all sports one, too.

FM is mainly for music and AM is news/talk/sports. These, and other
AMs, are all ranked in the top-5, well-ahead of most FMs:

WHO-AM News Talk Information 9.7 7.2 9.9 10.6
WLW-AM News Talk Information 8.9 9.9 11.2 9.8
WSB-AM News Talk Information 9.3 8.7 9.2 8.2
WGN-AM News Talk Information 5.3 5.5 5.8 5.4
WBBM-AM All News 4.2 4.1 4.4 4.6
WLS-AM News Talk Information 4.1 3.7 3.7 3.8
WTAM-AM News Talk Information 7.3 8.0 6.5 7.3
WJR-AM News Talk Information 4.8 4.9 5.3 5.3
KMOX-AM News Talk Information 8.4 7.7 8.2 8.4
KSL-AM News Talk Information 5.9 6.7 8.6 7.7

http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/home.htm

When I talked with KSL, there are just simulcasting in FM, with no
plans of dropping AM. Ths FCC is severely backlogged in granting
simulcast FM slots, and the FM band is already well-overcrowded. If
moved off AM, too many listeners would be lost. AM talk radio is rated
higher than FM, so it isn't going away. You just enjoy trying to make
people feel miserable, with all your doom-and-gloom - HD/IBOC is dead.
**** you.