Shortwave! Maybe they could just use 1 xmtr. instead of all of these H.S./college stations!raccoonradio said:Let's put NPR on AM then. It seems to be mostly talk anyway.
N1WVQ said:raccoonradio said:Let's put NPR on AM then. It seems to be mostly talk anyway.
Shortwave! Maybe they could just use 1 xmtr. instead of all of these H.S./college stations!
John Holcomb II said:FM doesn't have these problems and some MP3 players only have the FM band.
Pat Cook said:Well Sports Radio has certainly benefited from the (Gradual) move to FM. While doesn't really make a difference when it comes to Sports Talk, there IS a noticeable difference in how live sporting events sound on FM though. FM sound MUCH better here
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Wow... i'm just outside of Philly and AM is a noisy mess. KYW at night doesn't come in very well at all, and I'm just outside city limits. nor does WNTP. If i wana listen to KYW i'll have to do it online, or on 94.1 HD2. I dont much like WNTP, but listen to WSJ at times, but i find that lisetning to that online from Tunein is a much better option then OTA radio.Bongwater said:AM, for all it's granny-ness, seems to serve News/Talk, any spoken word format better. It can reach farther and is more tolerable under super noisy conditions.
So has Pacifica RadioBased on satellite radio, mp3 players, pandora and every other way you can hear music, why wouldn't talk move to FM? NPR has been doing it for years (and rather successfully.)
Two words (For starters) - HAM RADIOThe big question is, "what will happen to all those AM signals?"
AgreedAt some point, maybe in 5-10 years, WSB, WDBO, WBBM, WMAL, etc, will decide it's not worth the electric current to keep both stations operating with the same format. Eventually, they will want to split that signal again, keeping the news and talk on FM.
More accurately put - We're witnessing this generation's version of the late 1950s & early 1960s when the OTR era came to an end & broadcasters were struggling as they tried to figure out what to do with all the radio stations affiliated with ABC & Mutual (And later NBC & CBS)(Remember, this is no different than what happened back in the 60s and 70s with FM radio. Music was on AM, then moved to FM. They put news and talk programming on AM. What's next?)