[BC] Re: How did we miss this one

[RokprtMike@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/13/2006 10:12:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

COMMISSION PROPOSES RULES FOR
NEW BROADCASTING SATELLITE SERVICE  
Sooner or later, it will occur to all of the folks that think people have  
bottomless pockets when it comes to disposable income that there is a limit. The 
 question is, will this service
have to have terrestrial repeaters placed anywhere there are buildings the  
way the current satellite vendors do? Try explaining that to someone that has  
satellite. "It's a repeater, no it's from the satellite!" 
 
If satellite was really satellite it would have been a failure in the major  
cities from the start. Try getting a satellite uplink out of Manhattan  from 
an SNV. 
 
I recall having this conversation with one of he guys building Sirius when  I 
was across the street at NBC. How will you customers be able to hear your  
service if they can't see the spacecraft? The answer was we will buffer it. Wow  
a three hour buffer! 
 
The goal is to get everything that is free OTA, off-the-air, so that there  
aren't any options BUT pay services.
 
Mike Hemeon - CPBE