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May 29th 06, 02:09 PM
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IBOC at Night and the Local/Regional AMs
"David Eduardo" wrote in message . net... "Frank Dresser" wrote in message ... "David Eduardo" wrote in message news  he real issue is that most AMs in the US do not serve today's metro areas, and in more rural areas, most AMs were killed already by docket 80-90 drop ins. I might be familiar to the issue, but I don't know what "docket 80-90 drop ins" is. Late 90's, following the Bonita Springs case (station lost its license when it applied to upgrade, as it opened up, then, competitive bidding) the FCC added over a thousand new FMs and allowed Class A's to become B's or C's, and allowed routine major changes, including changes in city of license. End result... Traverse City, MI, market, with one time 2 AMs, now has about 15 stations city grading a county of 40,000. Lake City, FL. 3 AMs and two FMs grew to 7 FMs, and nobody makes money... the AMs are useless now, as the local ground coverage is so poor that the FMs took it all. In most of this type of market, there is nearly no AM listening, and the coverage of the local small market AMs is so vastly inferior to the many new local FMs as to also discourage listening. There are very few decent overage AMs in America. |
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