[BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[Robert Meuser]

It does not work that way. You are thinking in terms of program 
channels. These are just a whole buch of bits all mingled together and 
jumping between the terrestrial and satellite streams for ALL programs 
at the same time.



Xen Scott wrote:

> At 01:33 PM 09/28/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> Terrestrial repeaters do not work that way. A receiver can be 
>> receiving some of the bits from the repeater and some from the bird.  
>> Either you are on everything or on nothing.
>>
>> R
>
>
> OK, but if the local radio program is not on the satellite, it would 
> follow
> that the receiver must get all of the data from the repeater or the 
> original
> local broadcast signal and that might result in data gaps.  My 
> original point
> was that while it is technically possible to put local radio on the 
> satellite
> and augmenting terrestrial receivers, the limiting factor would be the 
> program distribution contracts as Rich pointed out.
>
> Xen Scott
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