"dxAce" wrote in message
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David Frackelton Gleason, "My thought processes are so screwed up that I
not
only believe in failed technology, I actually think one of my names is
'Eduardo'", wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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I now see HD as perhaps the _only_ hope for AM radio to survive.

Wow... even more Frackeltonian Thinking!


OK, genius... how do you suggest that AM radio stations reverse the
downtrend in total listening and the fact that only people over 50 use
them,
for the most part? I'm sure you have a plan, or you would not so brashly
dismiss people actually in the business who are working to preserve the
viability of AM.

Yeah, by messing up the band with failed technology.

The band is already "messed up" by the FCC licensing too many stations that
have never been viable. You do know, I hope, that during the entire period
that data was available, from the mid-50's to the mid-90's, half of all US
radio stations did not make money?

Today, there are few AMs that can survive for long... mostly the big high
power or non-directional metro stations, or rural AMs in underserved
communities.

Making jokes about "failed" technologies that are, in fact, at the very
beginning of their development helps in no conceivable way.