[BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[Cornelius Gould]

And as you pointed out earlier as well that to do local radio everywhere on
the Satelite (even if you put in geographical restrictions)
the bit rate would have to be super low to fit it in...just like local TV
channels on the Dish Network /  Direct TV situation...

-C



On 9/28/06, Xen Scott <xenscott at earthlink.net> 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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