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Re: [IRCA] Radio DXing Hobby Threatened With Extinction
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] Radio DXing Hobby Threatened With Extinction
- From: "Tim Kridel" <tkridel@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:34:27 -0500
- Thread-index: AcWJUN9/CSkeizVORsabkLl39pCUbgAAWKgQ
"Move all of the
daytimers -- and any station of less than 1 KW fulltime over to a NEW FM band --
and the OWNERS would move -- tomorrow. It would mean a profit of 5 to ten
times what they have now."
What are those
assumptions based on? Station owner quotes in Broadcasting & Cable and
Radio World articles? Analyst reports? Something else?
The only reason TV stations are going along with digital is 1.) they get to
use two TV chanels until the final switch over and 2.) HDTV will allow
multicasting on one TV channel. It will also force 100% of the cable
systems to re-broadcast all of the TV stations -- giving total household
coverage of each and every TV market within the US. --- AM
listenership just gets lower and lower each day. Why not -- if there is
nothing anyone can listen to. KFWB -- 980 in LA turned off IBOC and even
dropped plans to go to 50 KW. In fact the CP has expired. Move all
of the daytimers -- and any station of less than 1 KW fulltime over to a NEW FM
band -- and the OWNERS would move -- tomorrow. It would mean a profit of 5
to ten times what they have now. After the present AM band is
"weeded out" you would have a NEW AM band that works. KFI could be heard
once again on the east coast. WSM could be heard i! n Seattle at
night. KOA could be heard in Florida. And the remaining AM
stations could have a shot at being heard once again. Give the AM station
owners a BIG PUSH --- open up a new FM Band for some of the weak AM
stations to use.
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