[BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[Robert Meuser]

Backhaul would be the least of the problem. Connectivity is very cheap 
these days. There is still too much dark fiber in the ground.

R


Xen Scott wrote:

> 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
>
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