[BC] Should terrestrial broadcasters embrace satellite broadcasters?

[Cowboy]

On Friday 30 March 2007 06:48 pm, Glen Kippel wrote:
> As an article I read about 15 years ago said, we will have to decide whether
> we are in the content business or the transmission business.  We will always
> need content providers, but will the MW-AM and VHF-FM bands be in existence
> in the future?

 Oh, sure !

 Me, I'm an engineer. A facillitator.
 I don't generate content. I support those who do, BUT....
 it's mostly because they use the pipes I build.

 The MW and VHF bands will always be there, carrying something.
 Maybe not entertainment as we know it today, but something......
 .......and me, and them like me, will still be building the plants that do
 whatever it is that they will do.

 AND.....
 Wherever the "content" goes, internet, Ipod, or cell phone, I'll still
 be building those studios, too !

 The future is bright !
 For me, I'll have TWO markets to pick and choose, instead of only
 one as is now.
 I'm not sure I can handle that much work.
 Probably, I'll have to hire a few more.......

 Sadly, the article to which you refer, 15 years ago, seems too much doom-saying.
 How I wish it would just happen faster !

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Cowboy