"PocketRadio" wrote in message
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On Jan 5, 4:25�pm, elaich wrote:

"Music FMs of any flavor are utterly screwed... Right now -- while FMs
are losing the music audience to new media -- satellite radio is
offering more News/Talk/Sports programming than we can fit on AM
radio."

FM listening is off only a small amount over the last 20 years. AM listening
is off 30% in the the same period, and that which is left is, in its
majority, over 55 and unsalable to advertisers.

Some FMs are simulcating their successful AM formats, but the AMs
shall remain

50 KW KIRO in Seattle moved to FM entirely. 50 kw WIBC in Indianapolis moved
to FM entirely. KTAR, the best signal in Phoenix, moved entirely to FM.
WTOP, 50 kw in DC moved to FM entirely. New startup FM talk stations in
places like Pittsburgh (beating KDKA in salable age groups already) are
killing the AM talkers. KCBS, 50 kw in San francisco, is transitioning to
FM, as is 50 kw KSL in Salt Lake City and 50 kw WWL in New Orleans.

The AMs are dying of old age, and the few successful ones are moving their
formats to an FM station they own, or even buying one to move it.

listeners expect news/talks/sports on AM ,with its wide
nighttime coverage.

Nearly every AM in the US has less night coverage than day coverage due to
skywave interference from co channel staitons.