#FM broadcast transmitter

[dutifullycoralcollector]

FM Broadcast Transmitter Market to Witness Remarkable Growth by 2030

The FM broadcast transmitter market is a segment of the broadcast equipment industry that specializes in the production and distribution of transmitters used to broadcast FM radio signals. These transmitters are used by radio stations to broadcast their programming over the FM frequency band, which ranges from 87.5 to 108 MHz.

The demand for FM broadcast transmitters has been increasing in recent years due to the continued popularity of FM radio, particularly in developing countries. FM radio remains a popular medium for broadcasting news, music, and other types of content, and the expansion of digital radio technologies has also created new opportunities for FM radio broadcasters.

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Some of the key players in the FM broadcast transmitter market include GatesAir, Broadcast Electronics, Inc., Nautel Limited, Elenos Srl, and Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co KG. These companies offer a range of FM broadcast transmitters with different power outputs and features to meet the specific needs of their customers.

In addition to traditional FM broadcast transmitters, there is also a growing market for digital FM transmitters, which use digital technologies to enhance the quality of FM radio signals and provide additional features, such as text and data services. These digital FM transmitters are particularly popular in urban areas where there is a high demand for high-quality radio programming.

Overall, the FM broadcast transmitter market is expected to continue growing in the coming years as FM radio remains a popular medium for broadcasting and as new technologies and innovations make FM radio broadcasting more efficient and effective.

[poojaj]

FM Broadcast Transmitter Market to Witness Huge Growth by 2030

FM Broadcast Transmitter Market is an electronic device used to transmit an FM (Frequency Modulated) signal over the airwaves. It is commonly used by radio stations to broadcast their programs to a large audience.

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The basic components of an FM broadcast transmitter include a modulator, an oscillator, an amplifier, and an antenna. The modulator takes the audio signal from the radio station and modulates it onto a carrier wave at a specific frequency. The oscillator generates this carrier wave at the desired frequency, typically between 88 and 108 MHz in most countries.

The modulated signal is then amplified by a power amplifier to increase its strength before it is sent to the antenna. The antenna is responsible for radiating the signal into the airwaves so that it can be received by FM radios.

FM broadcast transmitters come in a range of sizes and power outputs, depending on the needs of the radio station. Smaller transmitters are used for low-power community or campus radio stations, while larger transmitters are used by commercial radio stations with greater coverage areas.

It is important to note that FM broadcast transmitters are regulated by government agencies to ensure that they comply with technical and safety standards, and to prevent interference with other radio frequencies.

[commiemartyrshighschool]

WKCR, the Columbia student radio station that typically concentrates on Jazz, is currently swamped on streaming platforms from people looking for on-the-ground reorting about the NYPD attack on peaceful protestors and encamped students. They are encouraging anybody who can to tune in via FM signal.

If you're out of range of their transmitter (and many even a little ways outside of NYC fit that bill) you can tune in to their FM broadcast through this site: https://mytuner-radio.com/radio/wkcr-899-ny-401019/

[seat-safety-switch]

A lot of radio stations have gone away in my part of the world. Corporate greedheads decided that they're just too expensive to operate, so they shut 'em down. Nobody was left to leave by then, though. DJs in distant castles were running four, maybe five "morning zoo" programs at once. Harried technicians were on contract. The offices sat empty, unlocked, and available.

The first inkling we received that something had gone wrong was an ill-advised radio broadcast. Across the city, a bunch of auto-tuning FM radio receivers trying to avoid commercials latched onto the old, dead frequency, now very much alive. Alive with what? Alive with the sound of the microphone on a local DJ's vacant desk, left open to the elements while a magpie and a seagull fought over the decades-old remnants of the sandwich he was eating at the precise moment he was fired.

Somehow, through some trick of giga-corporate ultra-consolidation, they had simply forgotten to sell the offices to someone else. Maybe there was no one else who wanted a radio station. Soon, a community of weirds developed around the area. At first, it was just the usual kinds: poets, beatniks, scooter enthusiasts: people used to scuffles with the law and with, at best, a wilfully incomplete understanding of the law. We waited for them to get arrested, but it never came.

The cops didn't care. No corporation was screaming at them that their rights were being violated. The newspaper that would have bullied the Chief was part of the sweep of radio stations that died. More people followed into this great communal experiment, self-organizing themselves into a replica of the ancient radio schedules. Call-in shows. Top-40 pop music. Long discussions into the night about which recreational substances should be legalized. It was glorious, but then it ended.

Turns out that Uncle Ted's Copper Theft Hour got one of its guests a little bit too worked up, and he decided to do a live demonstration right in the studio. The transmitter was down for two weeks, until someone could steal enough metal from Home Depot and an overturned self-driving drycleaning van to bring it back to life. By then, though, the passion had gone out of it. All the weirds, now unable to force their opinions on others without response, had scattered to the four winds, starting lawn care businesses and mimeographing crank newsletters at the public library.

It was the end of an era, but I don't regret anything about it. I got like seven dollars in wire out of that place, which was enough to buy a working stereo from the Pick N Pull so I could listen to the show.

[foundationhq]

𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐄-φ 𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐎; 161.8 𝐹𝑀 𝑅𝐴𝐷𝐼𝑂 𝑃𝐻𝐼.

High  up  in  the  █████  mountains  overlooking  the  Foundation's  covert  base  of  operations  is  a  lone  FM  radio  station  aptly  named  Radio  Phi.  While  no  one  knows  precisely  when  161.8  FM  graced  our  airwaves  or  where  the  radio  tower  is  exactly  located  —  as  the  fog  can  get  thick  in  these  altitudes  —  no  one  minds  having  another  rare  form  of  entertainment  on  the  austere  Site.  Radio  Phi is  a  freeform  station,  hosting  a  variety  of  music  genres,  from  easy  listening  to  classic  rock  to  canciónes  rancheras,  with  the  occasional  talk  shows  from  two  enigmatic  hosts: The  Man  With  The  Suede  Voice  and  The  Woman  Who  Only  Speaks  In  Whispers.  Although  live  radio  is  strictly  forbidden  inside  the  main  building  due  to  some  SCPs’  auditory  sensitivities,  many  of  Site-φ’s  staff  have  their  modified  pagers  “fixed”  to  enjoy  tunes  in  the  Residential  Areas  or  while  patrolling  the  mountainous  Pacific  Northwest  outback.

ACCESS.

Although  there  have  been  attempts  by  the  Site-φ  Security  Department  to  locate  and  track  the  radio  station’s  whereabouts,  the  rugged  Cascadian  summits  and  ridges  have  led  to  inconclusive  reconnaissance.  There  have  also  been  rumors  that  the  Head  of  Security,  Captain  Junichi  Kato,  tends  to  take  missions  to  find  the  radio  tower  less  seriously  than  other  security  priorities...  especially  when  humming  along  to  Joy  Division’s  “Disorder”  while  on  the  lookout.  Nonetheless,  Radio  Phi  is  off-limits  inside  the  main  building,  and  Site  Director  Buckley  Osterholz  doesn’t  take  kindly  to  his  authority  being  challenged.

However,  those  who  are  tired  of  flipping  through  reruns  of  outdated  cable  TV  programming  and  rifling  through  the  sparse  list  of  Foundation-approved  VHSes  and  DVDs,  or  those  who  hate  running  in  the  frigid  high-altitude  air  with  the  Walking  Club,  or  those  who  can’t  stand  reading  to  pass  the  slow  seconds  in  the  modern  cenobium  that  is  Site-φ,  know  if  you  meet  the  right  someone  in  the  Engineering  Department,  they’d  be  down  to  fix  the  mandated  pagers  for  an  extra  All-You-Can-Brunch  cafeteria  buffet  ticket. 

All  of  the  modified  two-way  pagers  utilized  in  Site-φ  have  mini-transmitters  to  read  and  send  messages  across  the  base  throughout  the  mountains.  Much  like  the  contemporary  cellphone,  these  pagers  are  outfitted  with  vibration  and  silent  alarms  for  added  safety  while  handling  SCPs  as well a  beeping  notifications  during  emergency  broadcasts.  Staff  can  store  up  to  300  short  messages  (no  longer  than  180  characters)  and  assign  contact  “names.”  Those  technological  tweaks  also  opened  room  for  bugging  and  fitting  other  mechanisms.  Once  upgraded  to  receive  the  elusive  VHF  frequency,  161.8  FM,  and  with  a  newly  installed  audio  jack  to  boot,  the  staff  pager  is  now  good  to  go  to  hear  whatever  (and  we  mean  whatever)  the  DJs  at  Radio  Phi  want  to  play.

PROGRAMMING.

Radio  Phi’s  programming  tastes  run  eclectic  and  completely  random.  One  day,  it  might  be  straight  27  hours  of  prog  rock,  another,  three  choral  hymns,  and  then  a  full  reggaeton  album  from  start  to  finish.  It’s  no  use  making  sense  of  Radio  Phi.  We  suggest  you  do  not  look  deeper.  Instead,  close  your  eyes,  kick  up  your  legs,  and  relax  to  the  music…

When  not  listening  to  lo-fi  beats  to  relax-slash-study  to,  sometimes  a  listener  can  catch  one  of  the  two  talk  shows  on  the  radio  between  the  hours  of  12:00  AM  to  11:59  PM. 

The  Man  With  The  Suede  Voice  hosts  an  advice  column  style  panel,  chatting  with  callers  on-air  or  reading  out  inquires  the  station  receives  via  mail  in  his  mellow  and  almost  fuzzy  tone.  He  helps  his  listeners  with  questions  about  love,  life,  and  animal  husbandry.  However,  it  is  unclear  how  anyone  can  reach  the  Man  With  The  Suede  Voice  as  he  has  never  given  a  phone  number  or  an  address  to  send  such  inquiries.  There  are  rare  occasions  in  which  the  Man  With  The  Suede  Voice  will  get  a  letter  from  someone  only  known  as  “Ben”  and  go  on  an  unhinged  rant  of  rage.  Reports  claim  that  during  these  incidents,  the  Man  With  The  Suede  Voice  will  begin  shouting  the  name  “Ben”  repeatedly  for  minutes  before  progressing  into  loud  sobbing,  and  the  sound  of  paper  tearing  can  be  heard  as  the  show  abruptly  goes  off  the  air.

The  Woman  Who  Only  Speaks  In  Whispers  hosts  a  “shock  talk”  late-night-early-morning-midday-afternoon  show,  and  the  topics  include  pop  culture  and  airing  the  dirty  laundry  of  Site-φ personnel,  all  told  in  a  husky  dulcet  whisper.  As  one  avid  listener  calls  it,  her  show  is  “practically shit-talking  ASMR.”  Between  the  two  hosts  of  Radio  Phi,  it’s  usually  the  Woman  Who  Speaks  In  Whispers  that  catches  the  ire  of  Site-φ’s  Administrative  Department,  particularly  when  she  divulges  on  topics  thought  to  be  confidential.  Exactly  how  the  Woman  Who  Only  Speaks  In  Whispers  acquires  this  information  has  yet  to  be  discovered,  as  it  would  be  impossible  for  her  to  know  about  some  of  the  events  covered  on  her  show  unless  she  was  there.  However,  thorough  investigations  to  tie  her  identity  to  any  Site-φ  employee  have  not  been  fruitful,  and  voice  recognition  software  struggles  to  make  any  definitive  match  due  to  the  whispering.

There  are  also  claims  that  at  the  start  of  every  month,  between  4  and  6  AM,  an  automated  voice  will  forecast  the  weather  for  the  greater  ███████████  area  for  the  next  month.  Site-φ  personnel  who  have  heard  these  weather  reports  allege  that  the  predictions  have  a  99.999%  accuracy  level.  However,  these  claims  are  hotly  contested  as  not  everyone  who  listens  to  Radio  Phi  during  the  1st  of  the  month  at  the  designated  hours  has  experienced  this  phenomenon.  This  has  led  some  at  Site-φ  to  believe  it  might  be  a  mass  hysteria  due  to  cabin  fever.  However,  recently,  there  have  been  rumors  that  Site-φ’s  Communications  Control  Specialist,  Majel  Trnka,  has  experienced  this  curiosity  before  the  arrival  of  the  new  MTF  Unit,  MTF  Chi-00.  Whether  or  not  this  information  is  accurate  is  unclear,  and  Trnka  refuses  to  discuss  the  topic.

Perhaps  one  of  the  most  troubling  aspects  of  Radio  Phi’s  broadcast  are  the  ads  for  various  strange  and  bizarre  products  that  are  fit  in  random  intervals  between  songs.  There  are  unsubstantiated  reports  of  ads  for  products  and  services  provided  by  Groups  of  Interests  Ambrose  Restaurants,  Doctor  Wondertainment,  Gamers  Against  Weed,  Goldbaker-Reinz  Ltd.,  TotleighSoft,  and  Vikander-Kneed  Technical  Media  among  others.  However,  like  with  the  weather  reports,  whether  or  not  Radio  Phi  even  has  ad  breaks  is  fiercely  debated  among  personnel  who  tune  into  the  station.

CONCLUSION.

Overall,  it  is  highly  unadvisable  for  Site-φ  personnel  to  alter  their  mandated  pagers  in exchange for  an  extra  brunch  buffet  ticket  with  one  of  the  members  of  the  Engineering  Department.  Although  the  allure  of  sweet  music  and  live  entertainment  —  finally, no  more  canned  laughs! real, live, human interaction!!  —  is  understandably  tempting,  no  one  really  knows  the  intentions  behind  Radio  Phi,  and  opening  up  one’s  standardized  pager  could  lead  to  other  things  getting  in…  But  that’s  for  every  staff  member  to  decide.

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[merelygifted]

200-foot radio tower stolen in Alabama - Boing Boing

An Alabama station was "in disbelief" after equipment was stolen last week, reports NBC News, but they couldn't be broadcasting their emotions because among the vanished gear was its 200-foot radio tower.

"What do you mean it's gone," NBC News quotes WJLX manager Brett Elmore, who admits to them he used "more colorful language" in describing the problem.

WJLX notified the Federal Communications Commission that its AM station was silent. The station was hoping to continue broadcasting its program through FM radio in the meantime.

"We requested a temporary authority to keep the FM translator on until we get the AM back on the air," Elmore said on Thursday. "But unfortunately, this morning, I was notified the FCC denied our request to stay on air on the FM side, so actually, we're about to go power down the transmitter."  ...

[zvaigzdelasas]

[VOA is US State Media]

The Islamist Taliban government has defended banning FM radio broadcasts from two U.S.-funded news media, including the Voice of America, in Afghanistan, alleging they were offending local laws.

The ban on VOA and Azadi Radio, an Afghan extension of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL, went into effect Thursday, a day after the Taliban’s ministry of information and culture said it had received complaints about programing content but shared no specifics.[...]

"VOA and Azadi Radio failed to adhere to these laws, were found as repeat offenders, failed to show professionalism and were therefore shut down," Balkhi said.

RFE/RL and VOA used the same FM frequencies for round the clock broadcasts in Dari and Pashto languages. VOA’s mediumwave and shortwave transmissions broadcast on transmitters based outside the country will continue to reach Afghan listeners.

In March, the Taliban stopped VOA’s Ashna TV news shows, which had been broadcast on Afghan National Television, Tolo, Tolo News and Lamar for a decade, VOA Pashto reported.

Many VOA programs are anchored by women. The Taliban have banned women from appearing on television without covering their faces.

On Thursday, U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees RFE/RL and VOA, said the Taliban ban will not deter its journalistic mission.

1 Dec 22

[ladyswillmart]

Some Saturday Morning Portal Fic

Yeah, I don’t even know where this one came from. It’s called Little Blue Thing (yeah like the song, maybe I was inspired) and it just kinda sprouted up overnight like a patch of mushrooms around an old stump. It’s a meandering vignette about Chell in her Relaxation Vault (circa 1999-2000 or so), mulling over a number of loosely related things, as one does when one is lying in bed, trying (or so totally not trying) to get to sleep before Stasis Mode kicks in.

Actually, the impetus for this short fic came from a comment someone left on my last fic, which recalled a scene where Doug Rattmann met Chell on an elevator shortly before the latter went into stasis. Basically they asked: Would Chell have recognized Doug when they encountered each other again way after the end of Portal 2? And me being me, of course I had no satisfying answer. 🥴 But as a reminder I headcanon them as fraternal twins, separated at birth. So... No shipping happening here! Sorry!

Y’know I'm still not sure if I have an answer to that question yet even now, but here's me thinking about it!

~~~📺~~~

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And now, the Aperture Laboratories Corporate Anthem—

—Thwip.

With the push of a button—whose remote was tethered to the nightstand, natch—the television flickered off, leaving naught but its negative afterimage, a little blue thing floating in total darkness.

Chell reached for another button, this one positioned beside the switch for her bedside lamp, that would activate Extended Relaxation Mode after a ten minute timer. Then, she snuggled a little deeper into her bed, loudly.

Who snuggles into beds loudly…?

Beds aren't supposed to be loud but the ones in Extended Relaxation had these weird mattresses made of some kind of memory foam, and were lined on the bottom with this brittle and unusually vocal vinyl. The kind of thing used in public-facing institutions where making a bed was a calculated risk, one that involved a variety of unmentionable substances. It crinkled and smelled and forced her to reminisce about sharing cheap motel rooms with her dad and stepmom and stepsister during family vacations.

Come to think of it, they never went anywhere fun, not really. Disney World was for other kids. Hell, they couldn't even sneak a Six Flags in there every now and then. For Kid Chell, summers held the promise of nothing but that sweltering drive from Joliet to Kimberling City, MO, to visit her stepmom's mom.

So, step-grandma…?

Chell was instructed to call her "Nana" which she did, forsaking her own feelings about it to spare those of an old woman. Nana was a nice enough lady but she made a hobby of growing kumquats in her backyard and they tasted absolutely disgusting but Chell would have to choke down like a whole punnet of them every time her family came to visit. And then, one night out of a week already stuffed to bursting with tedium and cousins and indigestion, they would all load into Nana's red Aerostar and trek east to the big city—Branson!—for dinner and a show, always bland and oily and vaguely unsatisfying.

Before the ghostly knot of summers’ past could germinate in her stomach, Chell flipped onto her back and stared at the ceiling, the chiaroscuro of the room developing like an old Polaroid as her eyes adjusted to its darkness. The first thing she always did was triangulate the location of the room's Aperture Laboratories We-Don't-Know-What-It-Does-Precisely-We-Just-Know-It's-Some-Kind-Of-Detector Detector on the ceiling. Maybe it detected smoke. Probably not. But it had a tiny red light on its side that glared inexorably through the night.

This time she glared right back at it. She wanted to stay awake. Just once she wanted to feel it when Extended Relaxation Mode kicked in, to see what happened.

Kinda like trying to keep one's eyes open when sneezing.

Maybe she would succeed this time. Her brain seemed unstoppable tonight, ruminating on its own punnet of kumquats, determined to chew each one to a barely edible pulp that tasted of the body spray her classmates used to fumigate the girls' locker room after gym class.

"How did I get down here?" she asked herself (frequently, but especially now). "How did this happen? Why did this happen?"

You were looking for dad, read one kumquat.

Dad always told you not to worry about it—his job, whenever you asked him why his bosses at Aperture made him travel up to their HQ in Michigan every month, read another.

"Who's worried?" you'd always tell him, even if you did worry, even if you worried a lot, read another.

Because then one day he went up there and never came back, read another.

Aperture wouldn't say what happened to him, not exactly what happened to him.

They said it was an accident.

They said they were not responsible for it.

They said nothing more about him ever again after that.

And you said

"Bullshit!" Chell shouted her whisper into the void.

So you tried to get closer. Closer to the truth. Closer to the black hole without getting sucked in.

There is a hotly disputed theory in quantum mechanics that information entering a black hole is lost forever. Chell tried to count herself among the disbelievers; after all, even now she could see that red light on the detector on the ceiling and the little blue thing still floating around her headspace. She remembered the announcer thanking her for watching television that evening, and where Aperture Laboratories Access Television's transmitter was located. She knew that, for what it was worth, she was still Michelle [EDITOR'S NOTE: Curiously, there was once a surname printed here, but the ink has since smeared to the point of illegibility. Our sincere apologies for any narrative inconvenience this may cause].

But did anyone Out There know that she was In Here? Did anyone remember her name, who she was, what she looked like, what she liked and disliked, who she loved, who loved her?

You got a B.S. in Mathematics and a minor in Music (tuba) and a specialist certificate in Applied Scientific Modeling, her mind chewed on and on.

You turned down an offer from Black Mesa to try to get a job here at Aperture.

Aperture wouldn't hire you, but they wouldn't say why.

So you tried to become a test subject.

You got rejected, but they wouldn't say why.

"So then I… Ugh."

Chell didn't want any more kumquats. She shifted gears, flopping onto her left side this time while pulling the bed's comforter over her head. To the hand, its fabric was scratchy and deeply specific—the kind of thing with a lengthy tag sewed to one hem explaining how well it repels fire or bodily fluids while promising swift and severe justice to anyone (save the actual consumer) who would dare cut it off. To the nose, the blanket was only human and needed laundering. Meanwhile, the air conditioning unit beside the vault's approximation of a plate glass window kept chugging along, blasting out its penetrating draft and freon musk, softly rattling the vertical blinds in a sort of atonal plastic lullaby.

If she closed her eyes—she didn't dare, but if she did, it would be so easy to imagine hearing her stepsister's quiet snoring beside her, and feel the sporadic kick of a phantom foot.

Rather, she rewound to a less distant past.

This happened god knows how long ago in Real People Time, but by her own measure it was only a few bad sitcom episodes and half-eaten tubs of 100% REAL in the past—that day in mid-June, 1999, when she was taking the elevator down to the Vaults and that weird guy slipped through the doors at the last second. She remembered his face to photographic precision but the photograph was another one of those old Polaroids, kind of poorly exposed, dreamlike, obscure. He wore a white lab coat and necktie like everyone else who worked there, but he was so gangly and awkward that he looked like he was playing dress-up with Dad's stuff from work. Chell reckoned it was the bandages that made him truly memorable, all those bandages wrapped around his head but they didn't do quite enough to hide every trace of trauma, of blood or bruise.

Through another passenger, she learned his name was Douglas.

"Yeah, this happened here," was Douglas's diffident revelation about his head wound. "But it was an accident, so, no big deal."

Aperture Laboratories apparently did nothing on purpose.

Furthermore this Douglas had an uncanny quality to him. Politely paranoid, Chell recalled. He spoke softly but seemed to radiate this intense nervous energy like a rapidly decaying isotope. A real live wire, like in that one Talking Heads song:

Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away

He wasn't paranoid, he was trying to warn you about the contracts, read a sudden kumquat—the worst kind.

He was trying to warn you about the vaults, read another.

He was trying to warn you about the event horizon, read another.

He looked at you with eyes just like yours, pale and frozen furious, read the last one.

Well. One eye was pale and frozen furious. The other one he kept hidden underneath all those bandages. Assuming he still had it.

Well. Maybe he was trying to warn her about something. Maybe he was too afraid to speak of it so directly on company grounds. Maybe he too laid up at night wondering if verging too close to a black hole might put even the memory of one's existence at risk.

Well. In the end, he told her not to worry about it.

"Don't worry about it," he said. Exactly like that.

"Who's worried?" Chell muttered to herself and closed her eyes, momentarily pacified by the sensation, distant but distinct, of mutual remembrance.

[galaxy-sharks-and-bottled-ships]

Because he's not actually licensed to run an FM. Just an FM translator and only if his actual licensed AM is still on the air.

Honestly, the exact reasoning the FCC has this rule kind of confuses me too considering they even ALLOW an FM translator for an AM station.

An FM license costs more to be approved because it's the more desired frequency type. But they still allow you to get a much cheaper to obtain AM license and then use a translator for FM? Granted you still need to pay two power bills (one for AM and one for FM) and have two different towers and transmitters but still...

I'm guessing it's more of a way to control the amount of stations on the FM dial that way we can actually enjoy individual stations and not like... 5 on every single frequency down the dial.

So it's either pay the fees for FM or at least keep paying the fees for your AM. Because as long as his AM is off the air he's technically not broadcasting and so he shouldn't be on either AM or FM at the time.

...I really hope I didn't just make it more confusing because I have to admit I'm confused by a lot of the little detailed rules they put in myself.

“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”

[purplewood4]

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[lilad03-blog]

Will ESPN’s Purchase of WCBS-880 Impact Fordham’s Michael Kay?

Recently it was announced that long-time all-news radio station WCBS 880-AM will become ESPN 880-AM in the New York Tri-State area. How does this impact the potential success for Fordham University graduate Michael Kay (FCRH-Class of 1982)?

Afternoons saw The Michael Kay Show finish 12th for the 4th quarter of 2023 with a 3.6 during the hours of 3:00 pm-6:30 pm. The show produced the same share and ranking as it did during the prior summer.

WFAN ended the year the way it started: on top in the ratings. New York’s leading sports station enjoyed wins across all dayparts as well as year-over-year growth in multiple dayparts according to the latest Nielsen Audio numbers (formerly Arbitron).

“The Fan” also grabbed a 3rd place finish in afternoons thanks to Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber. Evan & Tiki captured a 6.8 share with Men 25-54 for the quarter, up six tenths from the summer book. “Over at 98.7-FM ESPN’s New York station, the 4th quarter 2023 produced mixed results.”

High Island, an uninhabited Island in The Bronx (formerly Shark Island-much cooler name) is the location for 880-AM’s transmitter. 

WFUV’s transmitter resides atop Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx.  28 stories up. 

Are Two Heads Better Than One? WFAN Seems To Think So.

On October 7, 1988, at 5:30 pm, WFAN changed frequencies, to replace WNBC at 660 kHz. It had previously broadcast over 1050-AM. 

WFAN began to split between AM and FM on November 1, 2012, with the purchase of WRXP (101.9 FM) from Merlin Media for $75 million. It changed its call sign to WFAN-FM. Thus offering listeners their choice on either 660 AM or 101.9 FM.

880-AM is a 50,000 watt “Clear-Channel” radio station. 

The 1941 North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) set-up 37 Class I-A frequencies. Nearly all U.S. and Canadian I-As operate at 50,000 watts non-directional. Which can be affected more by atmospheric conditions, mountainous terrain, coastal refraction, and electrical storms.880 WCBS New York I-A

What Does The Addition Of This AM Radio Signal Potentially Mean?

The difference between AM and FM radio signals affects sound quality, performance and broadcast range. FM broadcasting offers higher fidelity with more accurate reproduction of the original program. But AM signals can be heard from further away. (See Addendum below for more information.)

What Constitutes The New York Tri-State Radio Market?

The New York radio market includes: Middlesex-Somerset-Union Monmouth County, NJ Morristown Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island) Fairfield SN-Split County, CT Putnam, Rockland and Westchester Counties, NY. 

I live in the Hudson Valley. I can't pick up Kay’s FM radio station very well. Before you ask, nighttime doesn’t help an FM signal carry further.  

How Can This Change The Dynamic?

Most AM content are All-News formats, call-in shows and sports. It has long been suggested that All-News does well in NYC because they give midtown traffic updates every 10 minutes. Now ESPN has an AM station in New York. As mentioned above, they have a powerful one.

However, ESPN dropped FM station 98.7 since the 880-AM acquisition. It is now a Top 40 station. Are they forgetting synergy on ESPN? “Kay was disappointed by the news, but radio is in transition.” said Bobby Ciafardini, WFUV Sports Director. “(With) more videos and podcasts and cameras in the studios.”

NEW YORK IS A BASEBALL TOWN

For the past century, New York has been a baseball town. The Fan has been connected with Yankee games on 660-AM for a long time. Will this acquisition, ESPN and by extension, The Michael Kay Show are now connected with the New York Mets radio broadcasts, since 880 is also their home station? ”Michael Kay is on the Mets station, but he is the Yankee announcer.” Ciafardini, who also teaches Sports Journalism in Fordham’s Communication & Media Studies department pointed out.

Time will tell of course. But Mr. Kay, and all the local ESPN radio talk shows have been given an enormous tool. Personally, now I can hear him when I drive to the local store.

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Addendum: More on AM vs FM radio

AM, known as Amplitude Modulation, got here first and used their political and financial muscles to keep FM, or Frequency Modulation, off-of-the-dial.. 

Note: For some context of how competitive this got, read about the suicide of FM inventory Edwin Howard Armstrong: In late 1933 he was issued other patents for a new radio signaling system which became FM radio. He spent much of his time in court defending himself & suing others over the primacy of his patents. In 1954, after 5 years of legal battles about the FM patent, & after his wife left him in 1953, Armstrong committed suicide.

Eventually FM radio found its place, starting the second half of the 20th Century. The two diverse technologies reshuffled the radio industry. Almost all of the music on radio stations comes from FM stations. While much  of the AM offerings provided consist of All-News formats (until recently WCBS-880) call-in shows and sporting events.  

For more information read: https://www.diffen.com/difference/AM_vs_FM

Will AM radios go away with Electric Cars?

In an electric vehicle, voltage levels are many times higher than those seen in a gas-powered car or truck. Because of this, AM signals become less effective. 

Some electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers are eliminating AM radios from their cars, which government officials fear could put people at risk in an emergency. For example, Tesla ‘s dropping AM radio from its cars.

Why it matters: AM radio is one of the critical ways that federal, state, and local officials communicate with the public during natural disasters and other emergencies. If drivers don't have access, they might miss important safety alerts.

-Kevin Bergin

This article originally appeared on the Fordham University Class of 1980 Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/groups/537184563628982

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