Posted on 04/25/2011 6:35:56 AM PDT by raccoonradio
A trend in radio: news, sports, and talk stations have been simulcasting on, or moving to, FM, or new talk stations have been established. Today Rush Radio 94.7 in Gifford, FL debuted. It had been Star 94.7, a rhythmic adult contemporary station, I think.
They have a local show called The Morning Rush, then Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, and Jason Lewis. Clear Channel has been launching Rush Radio in places like New Orleans and Boston (in Boston they later renamed themselves Talk1200 but kept the lineup); sometimes on FM, sometimes on AM (in Boston their two FM stations kept playing music because they're successful so the talk station launched on AM instead.)
Since many people are abandoning AM--signal problems at work, some devices like mp3 players only have FM, better signal reach and quality--we are seeing a move to talk radio (often conservative) on FM. Even if it's a station that continues to broadcast on AM but also launches a translator on FM (Worcester MA, Prov RI, Albany NY, Buffalo NY and many others)
AM is starting to get massive interference near some power lines (I suspect somebody is starting to implement data over powerlines)...
I will say SF now has a sports talker on FM—the former Wolf country is now sports talk incl. A’s games—so, not talk but sports talk\
http://www.957sportsradio.com/
I love fm conservative talk station in Pittsburgh, 104.7.
We have had the same set up in the Raleigh area of NC for some time now. Rush Radio 106.1 Definitely better than the old AM 680 WPTF. Although I do miss a few of our local old farts...
NO GOOD.
They will not internet stream outside the U.S.A.
I’m in Vero. Rush has been on FM on Saturday mornings for a while. (I think it’s his Friday show.)
Until a couple of years ago the local CC talk offering was simulcast.
Mono FM. Imus, Beck, Rush. Then one day, tuned into Rush,
and it was oldies. In stereo.
The CC AM is still talk, but they eventually dumped Rush.
Yes I listen every yr when I go to a cartoon convention there
You mean 96.7 WXZO, 960 WEAV right? Yup, Champlain Valley...yup, 96.7 becoming Dot-FM...and Rush moved to WVMT 620 just before Howie. I try to go to the area when I can—poss. Mother’s Day weekend. Snow flurries and 39 degrees last Mother’s Day as I left the Rodeway Inn on Shelburne Rd :)
Uh, I’m so jealous. I’d LOVE to be able to tune in Rush on AM radio — our house has an engineered steel frame (rediron and silver), and not a single AM station comes in. FM seems to do much better.
I’m waiting for either the local wimax company or Frontier DSL to finish their expansion relay race. The wimax should be going live “any day now” and whoever reaches me first gets my business. The first thing I’ll do is get a Rush 24/7 subscription with all that beautiful, uncapped bandwidth!
I can’t pick up FM 94.7 on my tuner at home in South Melbourne Beach but I do get Rush and company on AM 1240.
Yes the coverage map above isn’t totally accurate
My guess is that it's too "expensive" to isolate the noisy device
components from the AM receiver.
I can only think of one, maybe two, internal PC AM radios that I've
seen. One was a fairly expensive card that covered SW to the
something like 3.20Ghz, and the other was a ~$30 AM card.
exactly re: mp3 players etc. I have heard smart phones can get some radio station streams
more news, radioinsight.com:
>>The Cumulus acquisition of Citadel Broadcasting will not stop changes at some Citadel stations. Citadel will be flipping “Gen X Music 98.9” WKIM Memphis to Talk as “NewsTalk FM 98.9“. The move will put the station in direct competition with Clear Channel’s 600 WREC and locally owned 1210/87.7 WMPS. Facebook and Twitter accounts for the new station are already live. WREC will unveil modifications to its lineup on Monday, April 26. Memphis Morning News adds the 8:00 hour, replacing the first hour of Glenn Beck. Syndicated Todd Schnitt replaces local host Andrew Clarksenior in afternoons. Clarksenior will move to weekends. The Wall Street Journal’s Daily Wrap replaces Michael Savage from 7:00pm to 10:00pm.
Just a note, if you’re looking for uncapped bandwith, don’t go with Frontier DSL. They cap their bandwith usage at something like 5Mb per month. It depends largely upon where you are, but I’ve got Frontier DSL and the only reason I have uncapped bandwith is because I started out with Verizon and was part of the switch when Frontier bought out Verizon’s West Virginia holdings.
Well, did miss it. I still record the shows, but it has gone so far
downhill in terms of entertainment and information, that it's all but
a complete waste of time.
Have you considered an internet radio? We purchased one a few months back because we have such bad radio reception in our rural area. With sat internet and a wireless device, we can take our internet radio any place in our house and outside to listen to whatever streaming stations we desire. For us, it is now an important part of our daily entertainment and news. Nice to get local talk shows from around the country, not to mention the music without commercials.
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