[BC] DX Reception

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:10 AM 1/19/2006, Kent Winrich, K9EZ wrote: -------

>I guess my response is no it isnt.  How many of those stations where 
>coming in to the level of acceptance to "Larry Lunchbox"?  Most 
>people tune into their local stations (unlike a few broadcasters and 
>DXers like myself).  People tend not to tune into the stations that 
>are far away.  Therefore in order to provide that content to those 
>people, quite a few stations will carry like programming.

Stations serve their own markets. They don't make a decision not to 
carry a network show because someone 100 miles away is running it. 
Boston stations tend to want protection in Providence, RI, for 
example. However, Providence is its own metro and almost everything 
is duplicated there. Both radio and TV. The cities are 41 air miles 
away. At least one of the TV station's transmitter sites was in MA, 
even closer.

When I lived in Boston I could receive most Providence stations (all 
TV and many radio 5Kw and up). Nearly every Boston station is 
receivable somewhere in Providence. That's why the argument that 
there's "cookie-cutter" radio doesn't hold water. It's like 
complaining about "cookie-cutter" TV. Every TV network is duplicated 
in every market, only local news differentiates them.

Rich

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