"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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For example, I thought HD would help AM survive, but several years more
time has shown that AM is too far gone to be saved by anything and is a
lost cause.

AM committed suicide by filling the band with clone stations spewing
Hannity/Noory/Limbaugh/sportstalk 24/7 so that you couldn't get rid of
them no matter how far you drove.

Radio is local. It sells local spots, even for national clients. And whether
Noory is on in an adjacent market on another signal is irrelevant...
listeners don't listen in any measurable amount to anything but the
strongest local stations.

AM lost to FM in 1977. Limbaugh did not even go on a network feed for more
than a decade, and he is widely credited, along with Clear Channel, for
saving AM from extinction back then by bringing back interest in AM
stations. The numbers for AM in each market prove that point, if you want to
buy a copy of Jim Duncan's trending by station by market dating to 1975.