[BC] AM Stereo Radio Stations (and bottom-line rant)

[Robert Meuser]

I once put one of those dollar a holler stations that used a lot of 
hissy cassettes as a program source at 8 kilohertz and mono. That DID 
help the coverage a lot.

R



DANA PUOPOLO wrote:

>When I worked in Tucson, we had an oldies FM rimshot C3 (25 miles out of the
>market) that was something like 440 watts atop a mountain. I spoke to the PD
>and national PD and we all agreed that we should put the station into mono. We
>did and the ratings went up slightly, probably because more people could hear
>the signal.
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>This station had good in street coverage but really no building penetration.
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>-D
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>Received: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:23:53 AM PST
>From: SteveOrdinetz <hykker at grolen.com>
>To: broadcast at radiolists.net
>Subject: Re: [BC] AM Stereo Radio Stations (and bottom-line rant)
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>  Kevin Tekel wrote:
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>>It's nice to see you care more about the bottom line, than about the
>>quality of your station's transmission.  If you engineer any FM stations,
>>why not switch them to mono as well?  I doubt anyone will even notice.
>>A highly-rated FM Adult Contemporary music station in my area was playing
>>all their music in mono.  After waiting about a month to see if they would
>>ever switch it back to stereo, I mentioned it to them and was told I was
>>the first one to complain about the lack of stereo.
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>I think you just made Gary's point.  If after a month no one noticed an 
>*FM* station was in mono, why do you think anyone would notice lack of 
>stereo on an AM, especially considering the small number of AM stereo 
>receivers in existence.  It has nothing to do with transmission 
>quality.  Why throw good money after bad on something no one cares about?
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