[BC] sats

[Clive Warner]

>Hence, to the government bureaucrats, satellite is the wave of the future,
>and not for reasons you might think:

>1.  Satellite broadcasters require Federal government approval to continue
>their activities, the service is not mature enough for an "expectancy of
>renewal of their license;

- I don't see that Federal Approval is required. Supposing I were to put one
up that broadcasts to the US but my service is based and owned in, say,
Somalia? What're you going to do, shoot it down?


>2.  All programming is funneled through one central location (New York or
>Washington) that is easily monitored and controlled;

- or perhaps in Mogadishu?

>2.  Being entirely dependent upon the grant of further permission to
>develop their secret terrestrial repeaters, the satellite services are
>easily controlled in terms of political content;

- those uplinks can just as easily be outside the US border
- Clive