[BC] More available spectrum when TV goes digital.

[Jerry Mathis]

Because this is the United States. It would make too much sense. We do not 
do things logically here when it comes to broadcast spectrum.

Never have so many sacrificed so much so that so few can benefit.



Jerry Mathis
Clear Channel Radio, Tupelo & Meridian MS




>From: "Bill Harms" <wharms at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>Subject: [BC] More available spectrum when TV goes digital.
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:09:19 -0400
>
>This following is from the article which appears at this URL:
>http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050712/3/3tfmu.html
>
>The government wants to sell the old airwaves used by broadcasters to 
>wireless
>companies and provide some of them for public safety communications. The 
>sale
>could also reap billions of dollars and potentially fill a budget gap.
>
><snip>
>
>Does this mean there will be more spectrum available once TV goes digital?  
>If that
>is true, why not convert the spectrum over to digital radio broadcasting 
>and leave AM
>and FM analog alone?  I say this because I had heard that one of the 
>objections to
>putting digital radio on another piece of spectrum was that there was no 
>spectrum
>available.
>
>Bill Harms
>Elkridge, Maryland
>
>