[BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[Robert Meuser]

All news is one of the most expensive formats to produce. That is why it 
is not usually found in smaller markets.


Bailey, Scott wrote:

>That would make a great FM format in Nashville. The lowest rated FM
>station in Arbs in Nashville is WRLT-FM. I like their music format
>(AAA), but it doesn't have, and has never done good. Their format
>doesn't gear to the masses of this area, especially people in the
>suburban areas. That station would be best off going to an all news
>format.
>An all news format like WINS-AM in NYC would be a winner here in
>Nashville, and other markets.
>
>Scott
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>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
>[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Xen Scott
>Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:05 AM
>To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [BC] Country Music plight in top towns
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>At 08:19 AM 09/27/2006 -0400, Cornelius wrote:
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>>My position since the dawn of satellite radio - and in particular, the 
>>terrestrial repeater quagmire was/is this: Instead of fighting
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>Satellite 
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>>Radio, radio should have found a way to get ONTO the terrestrial
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>repeater 
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>>system and become one of the many offerings on XM and Sirius.
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>I would love to hear an all-news format on satellite radio, but not just
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>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.
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>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?
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>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
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>markets?
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>Xen Scott
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