[BC] Can traditional AM and IBOC co-exist?

[David Gleason]

There is a fundamental error of reality here. Phoenix is no more a city of
1.4 million than Mexico City is. It is nearing 3 million in Maricopa county,
the defined Metro. 

Radio does not obey city limits. The US is one of the only nations in the
western hemisphere where cities are additive as population grows...
elsewhere, city limits just expand. In the US, new cities by the dozen are
formed. The true issue is that any A serves at least the metro area, if not
significantly beyond. 

Even the government knows that metro areas are the social reality, having
defined hundreds of MSAs and CMSAs via the OMB. These are often referred to
as trading zones as well, but better reflect reality and the life of a city
than some jurisdictional distinction. 

The LA metro is 13 million. Houston and Dallas are at 4 million. San Diego
is 2.5 million, etc. 

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>So, yes, if your objective
>is the PICN as stated in the Act of '34, regional coverage is important,
>especially west of the Mississippi excepting three fourths of Texas
>where the geography is more like the eastern states, but if you look at
>it as commercial interests seem to today, there are not enough people in
>white areas, or even gray areas to matter to the kids placing time buys.

Seven of the ten most populated U.S. cities are in the southwest, far 
west of the Mississippi, and far south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and are 
concentrated in only three states, too.

#2 - Los Angeles, CA - 2 Class As, both ND-U - pop. 3.8M

#4 - Houston, TX - no Class As - pop. 2.0 M

#6 - Phoenix, AZ - no Class As - pop. 1.4M

#7 - San Diego, CA - no Class As - pop. 1.3M

#8 - San Antonio, TX, 1 Class A, ND-U - pop. 1.2M

#9 - Dallax, TX - 1 Class A, DA-N - pop. 1.2M

#10 - San Jose, CA - no Class As - pop. 0.9M

Clearly, the '34 act is not fulfilling its letter nor its intent, and 
most of the Eastern Class As should be taken off-air (or be reduced in 
Class to B) and their Class A allocations should be moved to the West.

Any 21st century allocation scheme should take into account the realities 
of the movement West, and should toss into the toilet whatever sweetheart 
deals were made in the 1920s, and which gave 21 of the 25 U.S. Class I-As 
to eastern cities (and 23 of the 25 to cities east of the Rocky 
Mountains).


FWIW ...

#1 - New York, NY - 6 Class As, 3 ND-U, 1 DA-N, 1 DA-1, 1 DA-2 - pop. 8.1M

#3 - Chicago, IL - 5 Class As, 4 ND-U, 1 DA-2 - pop. 2.9M

#5 - Philadelphia, PA - 2 Class As, 1 ND-U, 1 DA-1 - pop. 1.5M


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