Re: [IRCA] Norway closing down remaining MW

[Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 01 November 2010 20:45:23 Russ Edmunds wrote:
> At some point, AM broadcast will die, largely due to lack of listener
>  interest. The vast majority of people in the US under the age of 40 don't
>  listen to AM, and the majority of those are barely even aware of what is
>  there. In Canada, the regulators are encouraging stations to migrate from
>  AM to FM. The bigger questions are 1) when ? and 2) to be replaced by
>  what ?

I'm not aware of anything that the regulators in Canada are doing to 
encourage a transition from AM to FM.  Why would they do that?  In the major 
markets in Canada, the FM band is already full, so there's no room for 
further migration anyway.

As in other places, the migration from AM to FM in Canada is largely driven 
by the perception that that the younger generation(s) are largely unaware 
that AM broadcasting exists, and that new devices with radio reception 
capability (cellphones, MP3 players and the like) are usually FM only.  
Besides which, AM has a stodgy, low-fi reputation... not to mention the fact 
that some AM broadcasters are sitting on some pretty valuable real estate, 
and selling it off could be quite lucrative.

Barry

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Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON
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