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

[Tom Spencer]

And the whole thing is an effort to further erode the greatness that 
once was America's

Free, over-the-air broadcasting allows "pirate" broadcasters to exist.  
There may (probably will) come a day when such outlets are the only 
reliable news source available...

but if no-one has an over-the-air receiver any more, who's listening or 
watching?

the One Worlders WANT folks to be depending on them for their information...

And the demise of print newspapers throws the entire First Amendment 
"freedom of the press" on broadcasters...

If the government tried to outlaw printing presses, there'd be a huge 
outcry...

Why is there no huge outcry when the government seeks to outlaw 
broadcasting?

I fear it may already be too late...

Sure, technology COULD enhance stations' revenue streams...

and lots of folks are wired in....

not everyone is, or even wants to be, even within those wired zones, 
however -

" I know not what course others may take, but as for me..

GIVE ME BROADCASTING OR ... "

</Patrick Henry>

well, you know.

Barry Mishkind wrote:
> At 01:05 PM 11/21/2010, harold stanton wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
>         Quite... and out here in the west translator chains
>         can take it 100 or more miles past Grade B
>
>   
>>              So even "if" no one's watching, they really are.
>>     
>
>         I need to parse this a bit more, and maybe my
>         head will stop hurting.  <g>
>
>         My original point, though, was that with the
>         vast majority on cable/satellite in many areas,
>         the FCC is looking to take the bandwidth back.
>         Right or wrong, that is what the NAB is fighting

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