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HD radio won't just go away.
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"David Eduardo" wrote: "Telamon" wrote in message ... In article , "David Eduardo" wrote: You have a mistaken impression of radio audience measurement. Snip You misrepresent the facts to support your arguments as needed. You tell me I don't hear the stations I listen to because they are so weak as to be DX and nobody would spend time listening to them. You are full of it. You are, as I mentioned previously, the kind of listener radio stations are hard put to serve. You mentioned already that you are not satisfied with your local stations (and your local stations are those licensed to Ventura County) and prefer to listen to ones from locations at some distance. Radio sales and programming are focused on the local radio market. Even the LA stations, some of which get listening by Ventura County residents, don't have an interest in residents in your county as, simply put, there is no money to be made off such listening. Your local stations don't seem to serve you, and the more distant ones do not care to serve you as there is no gain. You are one of a tiny percentage of bona fide radio listeners that simply can't be satisfied... in Ventura, probably the econommics of a small, low revenue market are the determining factor... so to broadcasting, you are "unservable." You find listenable stations that the average person neither knows exists or can not pick up well. Most DXers have a bit more tolerance for noise, hisses, buzzes and static than the average listener... who today uses CDs or iPod digital files as the standard; AM as a band can not satisfy the listener expectations of the last two generations. You equate being able to pick up a station with being able to listen to it. These are not the same things, and you should understand that the normal listener to radio has a higher standard of reception than you do. For example, 780 in Reno is not 100% every night; most listeners would never return after the first time they hear nose, static, fading or interference. And you equate listenablity to receivability. The fact is that listenership of AM radio is at its lowest at night, likely due to, first, the greater use of TV by the AM 45+ listener core and, second, by the fact that nearly every AM in the US has less coverage at night than in the daytime, so choices are reduced. Countless studies have been made over the years of where a station gets its audience. The purpose is to not waste money marketing and promoting where there is no potential. For AMs, where we can identify at home and at work listening by ZIP code (and that is 70% of listening) nearly all the listening to any particular station takes place inside a very strong signal contour. Most radio stations do their promotion in what we call Hot Zips, or areas where we get lots of listening. All of these are inside, to use LA as an example, the 70 dbu for FM and the 10 mvm for AM. And it's the same for our competitors. The average radio listener does not listen to weaker signals. They definitely do not listen to noisy ones. Add to that the fact that nearly all AM listeners are over 45, and the majority over 55 and you have, as I said, two generations of Americans who don't use AM much or at all. You don't seem to know what reception on the west coast is like so either you don't listen to AM at all or you don't live on the west coast. Which is it? I know what reception is like for DX, but that is irrelevant to a discussion of why a decision was made to implement HD and then extend its use to nights on AM. That decision is based on how radio is used as much as on the technical issues. My DX interest is stations from Mexico, and, to some extent, Central America. I really have no interest in domestic DX and do what I can to null those stations. Ask about when you can get La Voz de Centroamerica in SPS, Honduras, and that I can tell you. When is XEW silent so the "hidden relay" can be heard? The difference is that I know when I am DXing and when I am listening for content.... something the average listener is really clear about. How many times do I have to post I'm not a DX'er? Oh, that's right you don't read or listen to people do you. If KOH is not coming in well I don't listen. I try again the next night and if reception is good, and it usually is, then I stay tuned in. That's going to happen a lot less now that I have HD hiss in the background all the time. Now I'll be listening to KOH very infrequently to never because I'm not going to listen to that bacon frying sound in the background. It's very annoying. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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HD radio won't just go away.
"Telamon" wrote in message news:telamon_spamshield- If KOH is not coming in well I don't listen. I try again the next night and if reception is good, and it usually is, then I stay tuned in. That's going to happen a lot less now that I have HD hiss in the background all the time. Now I'll be listening to KOH very infrequently to never because I'm not going to listen to that bacon frying sound in the background. It's very annoying. And KROW could care less. They get most of their revenue 6 AM to 7 PM in the groudnwave coverage area around Reno. They get no benefit from you or even 10,000 like you in Ventura County, CA. |
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HD radio won't just go away.
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"David Eduardo" wrote: "Telamon" wrote in message news:telamon_spamshield- If KOH is not coming in well I don't listen. I try again the next night and if reception is good, and it usually is, then I stay tuned in. That's going to happen a lot less now that I have HD hiss in the background all the time. Now I'll be listening to KOH very infrequently to never because I'm not going to listen to that bacon frying sound in the background. It's very annoying. And KROW could care less. They get most of their revenue 6 AM to 7 PM in the groudnwave coverage area around Reno. They get no benefit from you or even 10,000 like you in Ventura County, CA. What's more important here is I don't care that a faker doesn't care. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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