[BC] Remote Broadcast via telco or RF

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/26/06 11:13:26 PM Central Standard Time, WFIFeng at aol.com 
writes:
In a message dated 02/27/2006 12:08:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
rondcole at gmail.com writes:

> If you have a leased citcuit do you get a Refund for any lost time on the
>  circuit?

You *should*.

>  What about damamges for loss of business due to circuit outage?

You *should*.

>  
>  As long as it cost the telco nothing for an outage not even the loss of a
>  customer, why should the telco spend the extra money, it only comes out of 
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Many years ago when the broadcasters got fixed rate tariffs for the basic in 
city telephone service the limits of liability were to not charge you for the 
line that failed.  I think that was probably the terms of the early FCC/MaBell 
agreements when the monopoly was granted that guaranteed a return on 
investment and a regulated profit.

My recollection was that George Marti started building modified two-way 
radios after the Cleburne High School football team made it to the divisional or 
regional playoffs and his FM station was broadcasting the game.  The town 
business's backed the game buying sponsorships during the game, since the game was 
out of town and sold out they ordered a telephone line for the broadcast.  The 
phone line was checked out around 4 pm in the afternoon from both ends. 
Suppossedly the announcer did the entire broadcast live and went nowhere but to the 
away city's local phone office test board.  Around 5 PM the patches were all 
pulled.  The stations in Cleburne was on the phone with local test and the toll 
office but no program from the remote.

On the Monday after the loss of the game, George made a decision to come up 
with an RF system for radio station remotes to reduce the reliability on the 
phone company. He found that their limits of liability was to not charge for the 
program line. 

Dave