[BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[Cornelius Gould]

Interesting stuff!

On 9/28/06, Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> Xen Scott wrote:
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> > At 11:42 AM 09/28/2006 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >>> Do XM and Sirius even have the bandwidth to offer local radio into
> >>> local markets?
> >>
> >
> >> This is why I stressed using the Local Repeater system.  In most
> >> major markets, both SatCasters use terrestrial repeaters to "fill in"
> >> for the times the Satellite isn't 'visible' by the receivers.
> >> Limiting to the local market could be as simple as gettign the feed
> >> to the terrestrial repeater, and assigning it a channel there, and
> >> the national feed just goes on as normal.
> >
> >
> > The technology of getting the local source to the terrestrial repeater
> > could be the challenge.
> > The question is whether it's possible to go directly to the repeater
> > or whether it is necessary
> > to back-haul the source to some central control point so it could be
> > uplinked to the satellite
> > and then down to the local market.
> >
> > I would think the distribution would have to be done the same way as
> > Directv and Dish Network.
> > They use a severely compressed back-haul and uplink to satellite.  If
> > local radio is only
> > carried on the terrestrial repeater, then it would seem to be
> > necessary to implement a
> > means of switching back and forth between over-the-air traditional
> > broadcast reception and
> > the terrestrial repeater.  That adds a level of complexity that may
> > make it impractical.
> > The other question is whether path reliability is sufficient when the
> > choice is between
> > traditional terrestrial broadcast frequencies, particularly AM, and a
> > terrestrial repeater
> > on a satellite frequency.  It would be interesting to know what
> > percentage of the time a
> > typical XM or Sirius receiver is using the direct satellite signal
> > versus the signal from
> > a terrestrial repeater, especially outside of big city "canyon" areas.
> >
> > Xen Scott
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