[BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[Xen Scott]

At 03:26 PM 09/28/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>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.

Ah ha, so in order to get into the distribution, the local radio station's 
program audio must
be back-hauled to the XM or Sirius master control for inclusion into the 
one huge data stream.
There's no way to inject a program channel into a terrestrial repeater.

That would seem to generate three major issues with respect to the 
distribution of a local station's
programming via XM or Sirius.  One is the back-haul cost, another is the 
satellite bandwidth needed
and last is the contractual restriction imposed by program suppliers to the 
local station, as
Rich Wood pointed out.  And as Bob Carpenter wrote, terrestrial repeaters 
are not in widespread use.

Xen Scott