On Oct 3, 5:54 am, SFTV_troy wrote:

Is it any wonder the AM stations feel the need to improve the quality
of the sound (digital upgrade), in hopes of bringing in more listeners.

How will severely curtailing their coverage area and sticking their
heads in the sand bring in more listeners?

Steve wrote:
On Oct 3, 5:54 am, SFTV_troy wrote:

Is it any wonder the AM stations feel the need to improve the quality
of the sound (digital upgrade), in hopes of bringing in more listeners.

How will severely curtailing their coverage area and sticking
their heads in the sand bring in more listeners?



If you knew anything about HD Radio (and it seems you do not), then
you'd know the coverage area will be the same as AM, once they turn
off the analog, and constrain the stations to 10 kHz per.

Right now, the biggest obstacle to Digital AM, is the backwards-
compatibility with analog (forcing the channels to be 20 kHz wide).
If the analog was eliminated, the channels would fit very nicely, and
there'd be no more overlap.