RadioBanter - why not, Why Not. WHY NOT !

On Mar 12, 7:17 am, "RHF" wrote:
David Eduardo,

OK -if- we look at the last FCC Data for AM and FM
Broadcast Radio Station Totals :http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/totals/bt061231.html#START
Total AM Radio Stations = 4,754
Total FM Radio Stations = 6,266
Total FM {Educational} PBS/NPR Radio Stations = 2,817
GRAND TOTAL FOR RADIO = 13,837

Why Not - Move about a third of the smaller lower powered
AM/MW Radio Stations that serve small {local} Rural
Radio Markets to "HD" FM Broadcasting and clear out
the AM/MW Band of a lot of the over-crowding and noise.
* This would create "Space-and-Distance" within the
AM/MW Radio Band for those wider "HD" AM Radio
Signals and their Adjacent Channel Digial Noise.

Why Not - Expand the FM Band to cover 76 MHz to 88 MHz
to create and additional 60 Channels for most of the AM/MW
Radio Stations to transition to -and- Clear-Out the AM/MW
Band except for about 250 National and Regional Clear
Channel AM "HD" Radio Stations.

Again -IMHO- You have proven the case for FM "HD" Radio
as a Long Term Business Strategy -and- You have shown
that AM "HD" Radio is a short term business strategy that
at best is only buying time for Corporations to Divest them
selves of what will become an every dimishing market while
their FM Radio Business is Growing and Expanding.

"HD" {Digital-IBOC} AM/MW Radio only makes long term
business sense when there are fewer AM/MW Radio Stations
that are in-fact Clear Channels and Powerful enough to
cover Large Regions of the Country Day-and-Night. This
can only happen with a reduction in the number of AM/MW
Radio Stations and Greater Separtation : Frequency and
Distance between the Radio Stations : 10 kHz and 100
Miles needs to be expanded to 20-30 kHz and 250+ Miles.

Why Not a 15KW, 20KW or 25KW "HD" Digital AM/MW
Radio Signal which should be as effective as a 50KW Analog
Radio Signal for a Radio Station that is Broadcasting on an
'closed' Clear Channel.

or better yet - why not, Why Not. WHY NOT !
- - - Leave AM Radio Alone :o) ~ RHF
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On Mar 10, 9:24 am, "David Eduardo" wrote:

"RHF" wrote in message

ups.com...

Long Term IBOC FM "HD" Radio would give them :
1 - Better Overall Local Market Signal Coverage
2 - Better Sound Quality and the 'option' for a
Second Audio {Data} Channel.
3 - Plus Younger Listener Demographics
- - - So . . . Why Waste the Time, Money and
Technology on IBOC AM "HD" Radio which as
you admit is at best a short term lossing game.

There is a real simple reason and that is based on the fact that nearly all
broadcast companies are publicly held. Moving a big n/t station to FM and
abandoning the AM to a lesser format would require a write-down of the book
asset value of the property, which would affect earnings.

Bonneville, held by the LDS, can afford to do this kind of dramatic move.
Most of the rest will have to slowly move to simulcasts and gradual
adjustments in the values of assets, rather than just pulling the lug; HD
may offer some alternatives, such as niche music formats, too... it is a
hedge play... and for a big AM, not particularly expensive. As an example,
changing a 50 kw AM in LA to HD with a brand new transmitter is less than
$250,000 in a market where bigger stations typically bill $40 million to $60
million a year.- Hide quoted text -

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The stupidest idea I've heard in ions.