[BC] AM skywave

[Rob Atkinson]

Whenever I am visiting my mom near Memphis, I always turn on either WGN or 
WBBM every morning before sunrise to find out how things are at home.  720 
is in the clear there before sunrise; BBM has WMC next to it on 790 but they 
are not a problem before their daytime power/pattern.   I also use them to 
find out about weather before I hit the road to go up north.  I think truck 
drivers use the clear stations a lot too in the wee hours.  Ditto for 
farmers.  WGN supposedly has a large farm audience and I bet part of that is 
via skywave.

rob atkinson

From: "Scott Cason" <scott.cason at insightbb.com>
Reply-To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: [BC] AM skywave
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 14:33:24 -0400

	>Skywave is still important for the more rural listeners and the smaller
 >stations that may have weak urban signals that would be wiped out by
 >excessive skywave.

30 years ago, I would have agreed with you.  But since Docket 80-90, the FCC
has crammed the FM band full of small class A stations in towns as small as
Omega Georgia and Eminence Kentucky.  There is no place that you can't here
at least one FM signal.  I'm doing a study now to see if that Eminence FM
could be moved in closer to Louisville....it can't!  The band is so full.
At every proposed site thus far, there is a minimum of three stations
preventing it from moving.

Now, I like Dxing AM like the next guy.  I grew up listening in south
Georgia listening to the Braves on WSB-AM.  But we need to take an objective
look at the reality we are in today.  AM broadcasting isn't as prominent as
it once was, sadly.  And sky wave reception is for the most part nil.
People are to used to listening to "noise free" FM.


Scott Cason

LaGrange Communications, LLC
502-213-0024



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