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1. Night usage of radio is about 1/4 the daytime usage. FOr AM, it is
1/5th. AM only accounts for 20% of all listening, and only about 10%
of under-45 listening.

2. There is very little listening to AMs outside their strongest
contours. There is scant evidence that HD would interrupt any
significant amount of listening in fringe areas, as there is not much
listening to fringe signals at all, on AM or FM.

3. HD was just launched for the consumer last June. It is way too soon
to decide if it will succeed or not, but hte indications are good. $99
receivers, third party chipsets, etc. Nearly 700 HD2 channels offer
new free programming, and there will be 2000 HD staitons on i by year
end. The FCC approval of HD and night AM HD may accelerate this. A
year after CDs were announced, I paid $1400 for my first CD player. HD
is way ahead in price and content.
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Numbers 2 and 3 are especially deep in **** - what is the point to all
this ? Does he really think a bunch of morons are going read radioinfo
and rec.radio.shortwave, believe him, then spread the word for HD
Radio ? Is he indirectly recruiting HD Radio shills ? We keep
slinging his **** back, but he keeps bouncing back. Any thoughts, as
to motive, mental disorders, etc ?


I am just amazed that there are people here who actually believe the data
above is not true.

Arbitron surveys every county in the US, and nearly every county is part of
one metro or another. There is no evidence to support usage of AM or FM in
any measurable and statistically significant amount outside the stronger
contours... and none to support present day skywave usage. If there is no
listening, there is nothing being jammed, interrupted or covered up.

HD was "experimental" until last week. It only had an ad and promotion
campaign since June of last year. Nearly all of the significant stations in
the top 100 markets are on HD or licensed to begin soon... about 2000 in
total, making up about 1700 FM and 300 AM: