"Bart Bailey" wrote in message
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In posted on Sun, 2
Sep 2007 17:26:54 -0700, David Eduardo wrote: Begin

To someone like you, who buys a $5 k receiver and says "KOGO has a
listenable signal in Ventura County" without realizing how listeners, not
DXers, listen, I am sure that is a fact.

How do listeners of an AM talker listen,

To start, extensive studies of where ratings listening takes place show that
very little listening to AM stations in metro areas takes placce outside of
the 10 mv/m contour. This type of analysis is possible because every ratings
participant fills in "where" listening takes place for every incident of
listening. Such data is available by ZIP code for at home and at work
listening in every ratings diary and can be plotted against coverage
contours quite easily.

In some metros, like LA, there is essentially no listening in the metro
outside of the 15 miv/m contours of the local stations. because such a "big"
signal is needed to overcome man-made interference.

patiently awaiting the next barrage of commercial 'messages' so their HD
will render full fidelity, or more likely trying to ignore commercials,
fidelity or not?

Actually, nearly all audience for AMs is concentrated in talk formats that
are all news, nwes/talk or sports. There is very little listening to
anything else. And in the areas wehre the new electronic Portable People
Meter is in yuse shows listeners are less likely to tune out an AM over
commercials than over a boring subject or a bad phone call, just as a bad
song will do it much faster on FM that a commercial break.

...and I certainly didn't drop 5 kilobucks on any single receiver

I believe I was addressing Mr. Telamon, who mentions incessantly having a
TenTec 340, which is around that price.