http://www.cnyradio.com/2009/06/30/fcc-allows-am-simulcasts-on-fm-translators/ News about radio happenings in Syracuse, Utica-Rome and Ithaca-Cortland. News about TV in Syracuse and Utica. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cnyradio.com/2009/06/30/fcc-allows-am-simulcasts-on-fm-translators/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Mike Doughney Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:10:09 +0000 http://www.cnyradio.com/?p=2107#comment-307 I'd say this obvious regulatory change to breathe some life into the AM band is about 25 years late to do any good. Marginal stations under local ownership that could have most benefited from a flea-power FM in their immediate areas are for the most part gone or folded into multiple station groups. I think there are few stations remaining that would even bother, most are just keeping the meters moving with no local programming and few listeners. I’d say this obvious regulatory change to breathe some life into the AM band is about 25 years late to do any good. Marginal stations under local ownership that could have most benefited from a flea-power FM in their immediate areas are for the most part gone or folded into multiple station groups. I think there are few stations remaining that would even bother, most are just keeping the meters moving with no local programming and few listeners.

]]> http://www.cnyradio.com/2009/06/30/fcc-allows-am-simulcasts-on-fm-translators/comment-page-1/#comment-293 pontiac59 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:58:52 +0000 http://www.cnyradio.com/?p=2107#comment-293 I wonder if this will lead to more situations of overlap where people will have a choice of listening to a syndicated program when it's run live versus when it's run tape-delayed. At one time when WFLR-AM was talk, it was possible to hear The Savage Nation live in that area, then repeated delayed on the stronger WSYR signal. However the WFLR-AM evening signal is/was so weak you about had to park in front of the tower to pick it up after dark. Certainly more options are good for the listener, unless it affects ratings to where stations change programming and make it harder to hear the desired programming. Which, in this market, wouldn't surprise me a bit. I wonder if this will lead to more situations of overlap where people will have a choice of listening to a syndicated program when it’s run live versus when it’s run tape-delayed. At one time when WFLR-AM was talk, it was possible to hear The Savage Nation live in that area, then repeated delayed on the stronger WSYR signal. However the WFLR-AM evening signal is/was so weak you about had to park in front of the tower to pick it up after dark. Certainly more options are good for the listener, unless it affects ratings to where stations change programming and make it harder to hear the desired programming. Which, in this market, wouldn’t surprise me a bit.

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