"HFguy" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

At the present rate, all AMs in a few years will be religious or niche
ethnic focused, once news-talk moves to FM. Sure, there will be AM
stations, but with nearly no listening and serving very tiny
constituencies.

Are you saying that FM will no longer be primarily a music medium? If so,
that will be the end of FM for me.

One or more FMs will be all talk... maybe even an all sports one, too.

On Mar 9, 5:31?am, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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David Eduardo wrote:

At the present rate, all AMs in a few years will be religious or niche
ethnic focused, once news-talk moves to FM. Sure, there will be AM
stations, but with nearly no listening and serving very tiny
constituencies.

Are you saying that FM will no longer be primarily a music medium? If so,
that will be the end of FM for me.

One or more FMs will be all talk... maybe even an all sports one, too.

FM is mainly for music and AM is news/talk/sports. These, and other
AMs, are all ranked in the top-5, well-ahead of most FMs:

WHO-AM News Talk Information 9.7 7.2 9.9 10.6
WLW-AM News Talk Information 8.9 9.9 11.2 9.8
WSB-AM News Talk Information 9.3 8.7 9.2 8.2
WGN-AM News Talk Information 5.3 5.5 5.8 5.4
WBBM-AM All News 4.2 4.1 4.4 4.6
WLS-AM News Talk Information 4.1 3.7 3.7 3.8
WTAM-AM News Talk Information 7.3 8.0 6.5 7.3
WJR-AM News Talk Information 4.8 4.9 5.3 5.3
KMOX-AM News Talk Information 8.4 7.7 8.2 8.4
KSL-AM News Talk Information 5.9 6.7 8.6 7.7

http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/home.htm

When I talked with KSL, there are just simulcasting in FM, with no
plans of dropping AM. Ths FCC is severely backlogged in granting
simulcast FM slots, and the FM band is already well-overcrowded. If
moved off AM, too many listeners would be lost. AM talk radio is rated
higher than FM, so it isn't going away. You just enjoy trying to make
people feel miserable, with all your doom-and-gloom - HD/IBOC is dead.
**** you.

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On Mar 9, 5:31?am, "David Eduardo" wrote:


When I talked with KSL, there are just simulcasting in FM, with no
plans of dropping AM.

You called on a Sunday morning. Management is not noted for being in a radio
staiton early on a Sunday morning.Unless you talked to Bruce Reese, you did
not talk to the right person. The person on the air or on the board would
only know today's plan, which is to simulcast to get the younger demos to
listen. In the future, as the AM audience matures even more, the AM will
become unneeded and might better serve the LDS some other way.

Ths FCC is severely backlogged in granting
simulcast FM slots,

The FCC does not regulate programming, simulcasts, changes of format, moves
of format from one band to another, etc.

and the FM band is already well-overcrowded.

So what? We are talking about moving or simulcasting the existing
programming of some AMs to existing, probably co-owned FMs. Band crowding,
the FCC, etc., have nothing to do with this.

Of course, in Phoenix, when Bonneville moved KTAR from AM to FM, they paid
$60 million for someone else's FM so they could do that. They must have
thought it was pretty important to get the news talk format on FM to spend
that kind of money.

If
moved off AM, too many listeners would be lost.

There is no proof of this, and lots of proof to the contrary. When WTOP
moved to FM over a year ago in DC, the total audience increased compared to
when it was on AM. Same in Phoenix, Dayton, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, etc.

AM talk radio is rated
higher than FM, so it isn't going away.

Not true. A good example is the FM talker in Pittsburgh. Just a couple of
years old, it now beats KDKA in the sales demos, while KDKA's revenues are
way off. Moving news talk to FM increases the listening, and dramatically
grows the under-55 demos

You just enjoy trying to make
people feel miserable, with all your doom-and-gloom

AM has had an 85 year run. But it no longer serves most people well or at
all. Time to move on.

- HD/IBOC is dead.
**** you.

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