On 06/16/2013 11:50 AM, Michael Black wrote:


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The sad part about the AM band is that at night when you can move out of
the local, so much of it is syndicated, and usually the same show or two.
The local stations love it, filler for a time when audience is down, but
no thrill when tuning the band. There was a local station carrying
"Coast to COast" and every time it looked like the station was going to
fail, everyone would say "but what about Coast to Coast?" as if they
couldn't get the program so easily up and down the dial. And when that
station did finally die, another station grabbed it right away. Sad,
that station used to have local programming overnight.

For about a decade, I'd listen to WBZ out of Baston overnight if the
local overnight programming wasn't interesting that night, and the
overnight syndicated programming wasn't interesting. WBZ has a good
reach overnight, and except for the fading, might as well be local
then. And they know it, so they keep local programming (though often
the guests and calls are not just about Boston) and basically invite
callers from all over.

Reception got sporadic when a local station started up at 1040, just
above WBZ.

And I'm finding I'm not listening to much radio late at night.

Michael VE2BVW



I'm retired now, but when I was working I'd spend many hours a day
driving and radio was very important to me. When radio pretty much died
I stocked up on CD's but that was hardly the same...it got boring pretty
fast.

Now, I find myself listening to a few hours of NPR on weekends
and that's about it.


BTW: I am also a ham radio operator, but am no longer active.
I actually prefer Usenet.