On Mar 1, 11:23�pm, RHF wrote:
On Mar 1, 1:37�pm, Rfburns wrote:

Hey Eddie,
Is it true that iBiquity isn't going to support AM HD beyond it's
current miserable, useless state. �So is what we hear - what we get?

jw

RF Burns,

OK - Let me 'clue' you into the "Terces Nalp" by the
US Federal Government {Translation - Secret Plan} :

1 - Expand the new FM "HD" Radio Band down to 76 MHz.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting

2 - Sell-Off the old Analog AM/MW Radio Band.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_broadcasting

The-Bottom-Line : Within 10 Years after the Sell-Off of
the old Analog AM/MW Radio Band there will be 5,000
to 25,000 Pirate AM/MW Radio Stations broadcasting
LIVE on the old Analog AM/MW Radio Band.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_...rate_Radio_USA
[ CBers Gone Berzerk on the AM/MW Radio Band ]

. . . and AM/MW DXers Will Be Going WILD ! ) ~ RHF
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"News/Talk/Sports:Radio's Last Bastion"

"Music FMs of any flavor are utterly screwed... Right now -- while FMs
are losing the music audience to new media -- satellite radio is
offering more News/Talk/Sports programming than we can fit on AM
radio..."

http://ftp.media.radcity.net/ZMST/daily/IS031005.htm

"Sean Hannity's warning for music-oriented Radio"

"In five years when every car has an iPod connection and you can
listen to anything you want, what is music radio going to do? Sean is
dead right on this point. Within five years we'll see diminishing
ratings on sound-alike music-oriented FM's. And radio will enter a new
age of non-music programming. Not necessarily talk. But not
particularly music... The AM radio style of political talk is only one
facet of what will fast become a burgeoning trend towards non-music."

http://www.hear2.com/2007/12/sean-hannitys-w.html

"The Last Days of AM Radio?"

"Sports, all-news and talk programming continue to draw large
audiences to the AM band in most big cities..."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfi..._am_radio.html

"News/Talk/Sports Tops Radio Formats, Interep Analysis Reveals"

"The latest share numbers place the News/Talk/Sports format at the
top, pulling in an average of 17 percent of listenership among persons
age 12-plus, based on Arbitron figures for total radio listening in 92
continuously measured metros. That share number is even higher than
levels seen last spring, when the war in Iraq began. According to
Interep, more stations than ever are programming News/Talk."

http://www.thenewsletterplace.com/05...9/article4.htm