Posted on 03/28/2008 7:33:37 AM PDT by fishtank
There are already AM HD stations on the air.
If they do this, what’s to say the FCC might also turn down the power at WHO, WLW and other 50,000 watt, low dial position AM stations ?
I smell a sneaky, dirty way to implement the Fairness doctrine.
That would be KTTH in Seattle. They carry Rush, Beck, Medved, and Savage.
Try again.
AM radio is annoying because of the FCC. When the stations are forced to power down at sunset, you can’t get any reception.
Yep I use Winamp Radio on the net, I listen to 977 the 80s for music mostly (though I have a number of different stations for music I listen to regularly) and WTVN 610 Netbroadcast for Rush.
I don't even have a radio in my Home or Office anymore.
Live365 is free. There is a member side, sure, but most (80%) of the stations are 100% free to listen to, you just have to deal with commercials. But the quality of the stations, the variety of the stations, and the sound quality are SO much better. I’m relativly young for FR (28), but I have a penchant for old-time radio horror and mystery shows. I love them. There are probably over 100 stations that play that format alone.
http://www.abqjournal.com/abqnews/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6794&Itemid=2
Could KKOB be pulling our leg with this?
The proposed power reduction date is April 1, 2008 - April Fool’s Day.
There are already AM HD stations on the air.
No doubt, at 57 I not as up on everything as I once may have been. :=-)
Most of netradio is free, you can get free players from Winamp and a number of others (I have paid for WINAMP pro but it is my CD Ripper and Burner of choice)
Even iTunes has free Net radio and the iTunes computer player is Free to download.
They have tons of Free Netradio same for Winamp.
Even Yahoo Messenger has free Netradio.
Hubby and I both signed.
I travel all over and have gotten reception as far as Flagstaff mid-day and last night almost down into Carlsbad...it would be a shame for them to cut the power.
Sorry, but the FCC did not create the ionosphere, and has no control over how radio signals propagate. They are trying to prevent chaos.
“They are trying to prevent chaos.”
Which is why they are trying to shut down Limbaugh.......
:-)
,,,,,just a joke
Actually, you may get too much reception
see http://followthatmouse.wordpress.com/tag/dx/ an interesting read on DX and AM radio, one of my hobbies as a youngster.
When stationed in rural NV (Lincoln Co.) I would set my clock radio to KSFO, (SanFran) the signal was that strong in the early morning. Late at nite I could catch the ‘classic radio’ episodes - Green Hornet, SHadow, etc.
Those were the days (Mid 70s)
As long as there are massive segments of the rural countryside seved by AM radio, it will survive.
“On air, the station said that the ABQ station conflicts at 770 kHz with a station in SEATTLE of all places.
I smell a sneaky, dirty way to implement the Fairness doctrine.”
That is B.S. The signal is interupted by Mexican 770. In El Paso, you cannot hear KKOB. But in Ogden, UT and Wichita Falls, TX, You can pick the Albuquerque broadcast.
Some of these “clear channel” (as opposed to Clear Channel) legacy restrictions on broadcast strength need to be re-evaluated.
In the 1930s when there were a far smaller number of stations it made sense.
Today it is difficult to receive national broadcasts that originate from the host city (as opposed to syndicated rebroadcast). And there is even less REASON to justify such “clear channel” allowance.
AND if a station from Seattle is permitted to broadcast all the way to New Mexico, the FCC should count that station in EVERY MARKET on the way to New Mexico since it IS in every market and restricts the broadcasts in the local market.
HD is already on AM. It’s a disaster. It has a useful range of only a few miles to a few tens of miles depending on station power. The audio quality is not that good. It interferes with other stations, particularly at night. Other Citadel stations WJR and WABC have voluntarily suspended nighttime use of the system because of mutual interference problems.
It made sense for Stern to move completely to satellite radio to avoid all the FCC fines because of his content.
It makes no sense for Rush to limit his market to the relatively few people that subscribe to satellite radio.
That's easy to fix- just require both stations to operate at reduced power at night. There's a 50kW station on 1010 in Toronto that cuts its power in half between sunset and sunrise to avoid interference with a station in New York City.
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