On Jan 5, 4:25�pm, elaich wrote:
Bob Dobbs wrote in news:496ec8ca.3687390
@chupacabra:

Must be an awful slow death, cause there's an AM station every 10kc at
night and although there are gaps, plenty of stations during the day.

He's been pushing this "AM is dying" agenda when it's just not true.

Have a look at this:

http://www.amlogbook.com/freq.htm

This is a database of all the currently licensed AM stations in the US and
Canada. Note that the ones with a # are silent. What is the percentage of
silent? Maybe 5%? And some of them have been silent for years.

He's using this agenda to promote his "we need IBOC to save AM radio"
agenda, when there is no reason to save anything. If anything kills AM, it
will either be finances, or the coming revolution of Internet radio fed
into almost anything you can imagine. IBOC will die along with it, and
that's only a few years away.

AM-IBOC will just hasten the death of AM - I agree, that there are
tons of AM radio stations, and many of the 50kw are ranked in the
top-5, or #1 in their marketsw, such as WLW. It is the music-oriented
FMs that are screwed:

"News/Talk/Sports: Radio's Last Bastion"

"Music FMs of any flavor are utterly screwed... Right now -- while FMs
are losing the music audience to new media -- satellite radio is
offering more News/Talk/Sports programming than we can fit on AM
radio."

http://ftp.media.radcity.net/ZMST/daily/IS031005.htm

Some FMs are simulcating their successful AM formats, but the AMs
shall remain - listeners expect news/talks/sports on AM ,with its wide
nighttime coverage. Eduardo has an obvious hate of AM radio - his
death theory is an excuse for AM-HD's failure. Also, in Wash, D.C.,
and I suspect elsewhere, FM-HDs are shutting off IBOC. Too expensive
with no ROI, just as what is happening in Europe.