[BC] Country Music plight in top towns
Xen Scott
xenscott
Wed Sep 27 12:00:56 CDT 2006
At 08:19 AM 09/27/2006 -0400, Cornelius wrote:
>My position since the dawn of satellite radio - and in particular, the
>terrestrial repeater quagmire was/is this: Instead of fighting Satellite
>Radio, radio should have found a way to get ONTO the terrestrial repeater
>system and become one of the many offerings on XM and Sirius.
I would love to hear an all-news format on satellite radio, but not just
the audio from
a cable network. The problem with using the audio from a cable TV network
is that some
information is conveyed visually, such as in a graphic. That information
never gets to the
audio-only consumer. Ideally, XM or Sirius would offer one or more of the
major market
all-news radio stations.
Now I'm just a retired TV tech, but isn't there a big contractual problem
with putting
over-the-air radio stations on XM and Sirius? Don't most nationally
distributed network
programs prohibit redistribution beyond the local market of the client
radio station?
Most all-news stations use radio program network sources. A case in point
would be
WCBS-AM. Would the CBS Radio Network permit re-transmission of their
top-of-the-hour
news feed?
If over-the-air re-transmission of local radio were limited to that
station's market,
wouldn't that consume a lot of pipeline bandwidth? I know there is the
example of
local TV being carried in their local market via Directv or Dish Network,
but the technical
compromise in the form of significant compression makes the stations
difficult to watch.
Do XM and Sirius even have the bandwidth to offer local radio into local
markets?
Xen Scott
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