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"David Eduardo" wrote:

"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

I'm on the road, thanks for asking. Lovely day in Cd. Juárez, Chih.

Oh, good. Bring me back some cheese, would you?

The goat cheese I had with breakfast was delicious.

The cheese you spread around here isn't as good.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

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Fung Gu Tu wrote:

dxAce wrote:

Obsessed!

You sure are obsessed!

You going over his resume with a fine-toothed comb, you damn near
memorized his web site, debating the hyphen (or lack thereof) in a
certain model radio (a hyphen? Who's the pedant, chump?), even ferreting
out his mother's obituary fer crissake!

Worst case of obsession I've ever seen--and YOU are the one obsessed!!!

The only thing more obsessive is an individual such as yourself that
comes up with a new handle because you are such a coward.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

In article m,
"David Eduardo" wrote:

"Fung Gu Tu" wrote in message
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dxAce wrote:

Obsessed!

You sure are obsessed!

You going over his resume with a fine-toothed comb, you damn near
memorized his web site, debating the hyphen (or lack thereof) in a certain
model radio (a hyphen? Who's the pedant, chump?), even ferreting out his
mother's obituary fer crissake!

Worst case of obsession I've ever seen--and YOU are the one obsessed!!!

Well, with summer static and all that, he needs something to keep himself
busy.

The funny thing is that he finds things I post to the website within hours
of their posting.

Were I a Hollywood actor, I could claim I was so famous I had my own
stalker.

Yes, I agree that you have put on a good act posting in this news group.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

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"David Eduardo" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote:

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In article ,
"David Eduardo" wrote:

FM in mono sounds better, even on a clock radio.

It does not sound better to me. FM has a little more of a high end
response but that's about it. You sure as hell are not going to hear
the
difference on a clock radio.

Like I said before AM sounds good. I don't see what the problem is with
the sound quality. The quality can go down when you go out of the area
but you won't consider that anyway because it is out of the market. I
find weak signal FM more annoying than weak signal AM. FM gets a pretty
loud background hiss on a weak signal when you turn up the volume.

Many efforts have been made, all across the US, to make AM attract
younger
demos via formats designed for 35-44, etc. The only one that has worked
somewhat is sports, but all music attempts have failed miserably. The
reason: AM does not sound as good. Listeners tell us this.

Well I suggest that you find out what the 35-44 group wants to talk
about then.

We already know that. They just don't want to hear it on AM. This is why, as
I have posted several times, a growing group of major market AM news / talk
staitons have moved to FM or are simulcasting on FM... because they know the
AM delivery system is not acceptable to the 35-44 group.

I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion the 35-44 group is not
listening. I hear plenty of people calling in to talk shows that are in
that age group. Often they call from work during the day or home later
in the day.

Very, very few are listening. Keep in mind, talk shows screen calls and nuke
most of the Social Security age callers, and give preference to younger
sounding listeners. It only takes a few calls out of thousands to give this
impression. Most listeners are, however, over 45... 60% are over 55.

Their is no sense in putting music on AM except for the nostalgia
stations like I used to list to as a kid WKBW 1520 in Buffalo.

That does not work. Clear Channel tried "real oldies" going back to the 50's
on a group of fairly decent AMs, and so did Entercom. None worked.

Standards is pure 65+. None of these groups is salable to advertisers.

With improved quality vai HD, AM will have further opportunites to appeal to
35-44 with existing formats and may develop new or niche formats.

I would listen to WKBW because they brought back some of the
personalities from the past and they were very entertaining (read
besides the music that was played) but it looks like they went to left
wing talk radio. Pretty ugly. This link should be instructive.

They got no local ratings that they could sell. They changed to a format
that they could sell.

They think liberal left wing radio is going to sell? Then they are wrong.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

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"David Eduardo" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote:
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In the case of AM, the only thing listeners under 45 think is that it
sounds bad. Period.

Where do you get this? How does AM sound worse to these people than FM?

I "get that" by talking to listeners in person, or by having my staff do
that. AM is irrelevant due to sound quality. Under a certain age, you could
be giving away money and they would not listen because it is AM.

This is why the programming of WTOP in DC moved to FM, that of WNLS
in Tallahassee moved to FM, of WTAR in Phoenix now going to simulcast
on FM, KSL in Salt Lake doing the same thing... etc. These stations
believe they have a viable format in, at least, 35-44, which they do
not get, but believe they can get with the better sound quality of
FM.

What we have here is a failure to communicate. People do think about
radio when looking for programming content and when they find what they
like program in the buttons on the radio so they can go right to it.

But they do not ask "why." They just select from a menu of free options.

Who said anything about why? Are you reading what I posted? I understand
that people not into radio spend no time thinking about it. Why do you
think that this is suddenly a problem with a certain age group and AMBCB?

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Telamon
Ventura, California