[BC] Re: How did we miss this one

[Robert Meuser]

The market is driven by consumer demand

Provide something they they find desirable and they will respond. The FCC is the 
biggest threat the OTA free radio. Dont fear technology, fear the FCC.

R

RokprtMike at aol.com wrote:
> 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
>  
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