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HOW MANY people listen to Distant (100 mile) AM at night?
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:54:21 -0700, Roadie wrote:
On Oct 1, 6:54 am, SFTV_troy wrote: How many AM DX'ers are there? How many nighttime AM listeners are there? Two very different questions. The first one has no answer, but is lilkely quite small. The number of nighttime listeners is porincipally their local audience and the counts are likely available from Arbitron or the radio station in question. Does anyone know the official numbers? Has the FCC tracked it? I'm looking for a reliable source. The real question is whether radio stations really care about geting an inconsistent signal to non-local listeners on nighttime AM. The inability to provide a consistent signal coupled with advertising that is usually local in nature would seem to indicate that non-local listeners are not much of a concern to AM stations. Radio stations are supposed to operate in the public interest. If people like Dwardo had their way all radio would cease transmitting at 7 PM because the advertising drops below the breakeven level. All 50 kW stations would cut their power by 3 dB to save money on electric bills and all would run syndicated talk radio because those ASCAP fees cut into the bottom line and it's much cheaper to pay a hatemonger. |
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