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

[Barry Mishkind]

A very good point, David.

Of course, that makes one wonder why the NAB was so fearful of 10 watt 
LPFMs ... which could never hope to be "market leaders" ... but would have 
had to focus on the local community.

Not that I am necessarily a proponent of LPFM as currently constituted and 
practiced (especially those odious satellators),  but it does appear that 
one channel could have been "used" perhaps dozens of times in some markets 
to provide lots of tiny stations.


At 06:52 PM 7/10/2005, David Gleason wrote
>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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