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- AM FADING OUT?
The AM radio band shriveled when FM became the preferred music radio venue. Even “AM stereo” failed to catch fire. Then Rush Limbaugh breathed new life into the original low-fi band with his broadsword wit and forked tongue. Nevertheless, AM didn’t develop any other tricks, even though the many original news and talk stations have [...]
- REIGNITING RADIO;
TRADE ORGS TAKE THE BALLAt the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Show in Charlotte, David Rehr, new-ish president of NAB, introduced a new promotion campaign for radio. This comes at, maybe, exactly the right time — radio station owners are listening to the jungle telegraph and thinking about change, big corporate radio is lurching along in the money markets, [...]
- THE BIG RADIO CONVENTION; SIGNS OF LIFE
The National Association of Broadcasters’ annual “Radio Show” is on now in Charlotte. It’s the year’s big trade show for commercial radio; not as big as it used to be, since most of the big companies who hold the prime big-market radio stations would rather have their people come to company meetings than schmooze for [...]
