[BC] Program Delivery Question

[Mike McCarthy]

As long as the content is conveyed to the TX through studio facilities 
located in the USA and not directly delivered direct to the transmitter 
(even is EAS gears is located there), you're OK.  We place no restrictions 
on the origination point.  But the final relay needs to be through a USA 
located facility.

It goes to control of the license and it always residing in the USA.  The 
rule dovetails with the rules which requires licensees of Part 73 licenses 
be USA citizens and foreign interest in a license can't total more than 20% 
(IIRC.)  The rules also prescribes certain limits on how much foreign 
capital may be obligated from off-shore lenders.

The feds want to insure control of a license remains firmly vested in hands 
of USA citizens and interests.  Lest we start taking Chinese and Saudi 
money we previously paid for "stuff" and oil respectively and potentially 
loose them to those which do not have compatible interests with the local 
population or are subversive.

MM

At 07:15 PM 3/2/2009 -0600, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote
>I know that if you are a US broadcaster wanting to supply programming to a
>station in Mexico, you would have to get international authorization.
>
>However, what if you are an island in the southern part of the Atlantic
>ocean that is a British commonwealth and are delivering programming via a
>webstream to an FCC licensed station in the USA?..
>
>Is that legal?
>
>--
>Sincerely,
>Paul B. Walker, Jr.
>www.onairdj.com
>walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com