"DEFCON 88" wrote in message
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On Feb 13, 9:24 am, dave wrote:
Back in the early '60s the FCC made a rule that you could not run the
same programming on your AM station as was on your FM station, most of
the time. A lot of Newstalker blowtorches are on both AM and FM signals.
(Reagan dropped the rule). We need to liberate these blowtorches for the
people and leave the hate radio on the FM, with all the other bullcrap.

KSL is the biggest offender.

Yeah .... just like Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Beria, Mao, Kruschev,
Castro,
Pol Pot, etc "liberated" their countries "for the people", ey comrade
Dave?


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Perhaps "liberate" was a poor choice of words on Dave's behalf, but the idea
is a sound one.

The (no) duplication rule was brought about for a sound reason: to give FM
radio a chance to flourish on it's own. Without it, FM would have died back
in the 60's without ever garnering an audience. Now, it may be a good idea
to bring it back, but for the opposite reason: to give AM a chance at a
comeback of sorts. Bringing back the rule would make big corporations like
Entercom, Disney, Clear Channel, et. al. either create programming that
listeners will listen to (and advertisers will support) or give up those AM
plants to someone that WILL. The only logical reason they are keeping them
once they move the content to FM is to freeze out competition