Re: [IRCA] Clear Channel and the End of AM

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- saulamdx <saulamdx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> As a DXer, my fantasy is a good chunk of unprofitable
> AM stations going dark (FM coming later), if not
> eventually the whole band (I'm assuming they won't go
> dark at once but the band will gradually open back
> up). But who knows. One scenario which kills my
> fantasy is that those peddling ideology, religious or
> political, will snap up floundering media properties
> and revalue the outlets as priceless vehicles for
> their cause.
> 

*** If your fantasy were to come true, CC would simply take those dark
and concurrently apply for higher power, better patterns for their co-
or adjacent-channel properties in the next nearest market. 

That doesn't preclude them wishing a lot of the others would go dark
for inability to fund IBOC and then CC could do the same with nearby
properties they do own.

But if either CC or others put those smaller ones on the market, your
fear could also come true.





Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA  ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20ID
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop

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