[BC] Top Ten reasons why IBOC won't make much difference...

[Kent]

Completely agreed!!  And the markets that dont have a lot of AMs in the 
top are usually markets with poor AMs signal wise.  Atlanta comes to 
mind...especially with the wonderful ground conductivity they have there 
(YUCK!!).  DC is another.

Alan Kline wrote:

>Ron,
>
>How about just answering the original question?  Several others have
>provided facts supporting my original point, and all you've done has been
>to come up with irrelevant analogies.
>
>Just for kicks, I took a quick look at the ratings section of the Radio
>and Records website.  In the San Francisco ADI, 3 of the top 5 stations
>are AM (not counting KOIT-AM, which appears to be reported with its FM
>sister).
>
>Chicago, 2 of the top 5.  It varies from market to market, but there are
>still a lot of AM's pulling numbers in the big markets.  Must be that
>great AM fidelity, huh?  Couldn't possibly be content, could it?  Couldn't
>possibly be that those AM's are offering something that someone wants to
>listen to, could it?
>
>Yes, in most markets most of the well-rated stations are FM.  But, the
>continuing success of quite a few AM's disproves your suggestion that
>fidelity always wins out over personality and content.
>
>ak
>
>On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Ron Castro wrote:
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