[BC] Can technology create a significant revenue source for radio?

harold stanton k5gvr at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 21 14:05:35 CST 2010


Barry says: "The best example you can have on this point

        is probably television: in many places 85% or
        more use cable or satellite. The FCC is looking
        to take some of that bandwidth back. The TV
        industry doesn't want to give anything up - even
        if no one is watching."

 Harold says: Please understand that TV consists of more
              than a "metro" wired area. All TV has a DMA
              area that is usually not accessible from a wired
              to the cable headend feed. That has to get there
              somehow. We use VHF and UHF to do that!!
              It also seems to feed the TV set just fine with
              usually a simple external device such as an antenna.

              So even "if" no one's watching, they really are.

       Harold Stanton



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