New Mexico DU'ers! Are you as sick as I am of KKOB?

[vanbean]

I wish there was something we could do about them and their big stick. In many places in New Mexico, it is the only AM station you can tune into. Am I alone?

[zonkers]

1. You are alone. I am from CA and know little of them. Kick.

[alp227]

2. That's a nationwide problem - right-wing trash polluting the airwaves

It sucks to be a liberal these days, given that our president is sucking it up to the right wing and there's a lack of liberalism on the airwaves (in spite of all those claims about "liberal media bias").

AM radio is so strong that broadcasters can reach far beyond their broadcast areas. For example, I've heard the Los Angeles talk station KFI in my hometown (San Jose) at night and one time up in Tahoe. At nighttime I've heard AM stations from Seattle, Portland, the Central Valley, San Diego, Reno, Las Vegas, and other faraway West Coast places on my clock radio.

[Warpy]

3. I had a car with only an AM radio for a long time

and I kept that puppy OFF because of it. When I left the valley, I'd tune into the Spanish station to the north or the Navajo station to the west, but KKOB was gag inducing. Long trips usually meant a tape deck, though, because that sucky station is the only one that comes in.

It's so awful I don't even know if the AM band on my tuner works. I've never turned it on.

I've only lived in one worse area, a town that had a radio station whose unofficial motto was "Beautiful music, wherever you set your radio dial." They would appear all over the FM band, drowning out the good stations. We used to fantasize about what we'd like to do to their tower and one day, someone with access to dynamite did it. We never knew who it was, but he had a grateful town.

Unfortunately, they were back in a week.

Forget the FCC or anybody else, they work for the owners.

The only thing that will work with such a monumentally awful radio station is kidnapping the owners and holding them hostage, keeping them alive only as long as the programming is changed. Or the signal tightened.

[Cleita]

4. Here's one for you.

Our AAR station who carries Thom Hartmann and Mike Malloy is the lowest powered AM station in my area. It's bad enough that I can barely tune it in between an oldies station and one that carries Rush Limbaugh and Mike Savage. Often, depending on the weather, I hear both but I persist. However, every time we have a rain storm the transmitter gets knocked down. Yesterday, after twenty four hours and no radio to listen to, and no electricity to stream with, I called the station and asked them what the problem was. Their answer was no one wanted to go out in the rain and fix the transmitter. I used to work as a camp ground host and worked outdoors rain or no rain maintaining the grounds. What the hell is wrong with them? Get some slickers and boots on and go out and fix the transmitter you whimps. The electric company has to fix the power lines in the rain when they go down so why can't they? I hope someone from the station is reading this. They know who they are. No wonder liberal Democrats are losing on every front. Why did the reichsters get all the powerful stations to begin with? Supposedly the air waves collectively belong to the people, not just them.