Posted on 03/28/2008 7:33:37 AM PDT by fishtank
I had a 3rd phone license from the same year, 1966. Still have it around here someplace...
Count on it within five years. That's why the Justice Department is letting the Sirius XM merger go through.
All the FCC’s, FDA’s, FEC’s, HUDs, HHS, IRS’s etc. still need to be repealed.
You reckon Sirius/XM will be net portals somehow or will they simply stream the net content through their network?
Good ole’ third phones. Got mine in 59. You had to have a first to run a TV transmitter or a directional AM station, and an awful lot of us got into the ‘business’ through that avenue. The old Don Martin school in Los Angeles had a course that essentially taught you to memorize all the questions in the first class pool. For decades, half the night-time disk jockeys in California were Martin graduates.
All changed now, anybody can run those stations. Lots of jobs went with the rule change.
Sirius already offers most of its service on the net. The Sirius satellite system, which isn’t in fixed orbit, isn’t really the best for fixed reception. So, my guess would be that if the FCC approves the merger, all the radio will end up on the XM birds, and the Sirius birds will be used for something like ‘mobile TV’.
I think folks’ll be picking up internet streams on their IPhones, then Blue-toothing them into their car radios. You can do all that now, cost and simplicity are the limitations and cost’ll be down very quickly with the analog TV frequencies being opened up to wideband.
BTW:
I think broadcasting, as we know it, is a dying creature. Twenty years from now, AM will probably still be alive, (and maybe some FM and TV in the boonies) but the rest of our radio/TV entertainment, both mobile and fixed, will come from a digital “cloud” offering a huge number of streams. Your receiver will ask for a certain stream, the computer running the closest repeater site will check to see if it’s already broadcasting that stream. If not, it’ll put it up on a channel. Either way, the computer will then tell your receiver where to tune to get the program you want. To some degree radio listening will be active rather than passive. (Interesting privacy issues there) It’s a combination of wireless net and the form of trunking currently used in public safety radio.
Whether the backbone of that system will be the internet, or some new ‘entertaiment specific’ network, I don’t know, but I would speculate that FM broadcast stations will get swallowed up in the process and just become repeaters that transmit mutiple digital streams to the ‘cloud’s’ audience.
I signed the petition.; That's ridiculous.
While KOB isn't as good with its programming as it was in the 80's and 90s IMHO, it is a very necessary regional resource. Especially if some sort of big emergency arises.
Down here in Ruidoso, if our power goes out, all of our local stations go down because none of them will invest in an emergency generator. KKOB is the only non-local station (that broadcasts in English, anyway; we get some of the 'boomers' from south of the border all too well, drowning out some closer low power American stations) we can receive reliably during the day with any reliability since we are completely surrounded by mountains.
There is a pretty good " Conservative talker" station in Alamogordo, (1270 KINN) but they are only a thousand watts, and they fade out by the time you get to Tularosa.
So at a thousand watts, KKOB couldn't even begin to serve its suburban markets, much less its regional.
I have XM, so I can get all the national talk radio I want, but sometimes it is nice and occasionally NECESSARY to be able to get some regional news and info.
So, was this a hoax or not? I should have read the whole thread before I posted and petitioned.
Well, at least I used one of my ‘throwaway’ email addresses for the petition, so if they sell the list to spammers’ it won’t be too big a PITA.
Member of the RCA?
I got my commercial ticket in 77, so I’m just a youngster....
THanks for the link - that’s one of the really cool things about FR - the sharing.
Well, they work great for just listening - I have one on the RV that I connect to the Icom R5 - wonderful combo.
You know that old joke about the guy at the circus who cleans up after the elephants that ends with, "what? And quit Show Business?"? There's some folks in the business who really believe that.
For me, there's a lot to be said for having a career that doesn't end every six months. Mine ended and started over about 60 times before I called it quits.
Well the reason I predict such is because cars are coming with Hard Drives now, places to hook your iPods and store music. Our cell phones have Internet, Onstar has what equates to built in Cell phones.
Someone will come up with the application that combines all those capabilities and package it for cars. Surf the Net from your car blah blah blah, also tie in the GPS and you not only have directions to a new restaurant but a menu and call ahead ordering all from your new spiffy Internet car system.
I have yet to see one or even hear of one being made but it don't take a genius to see the implications of how powerful the tech will be. And being that net radio is already a big market its just natural that it will be used in Internet car systems.
This is why I think Sat Radio systems will be a niche market at best and probably end up something like HBO, special programing only to be found on that system.
I’d love Rush to come to Sirius Patriot 144 and replace Hannity sound-alike Wilkow.
Anyone know if Jim Villanucci had any updates on his show this p.m.? Nothing new on the ABQ Journal website.
You are prolly correct. In fact I believe it’s all possible right now. It is just yet to be marketed in the proper package.
“Again, just a guess, but the FCC tends to have good reasons for their decisions.”
You mean like their recent contemporaeous move to impose “advisory boards” on for profit stations for the express purpose of squelching discussion on illegal immigration and jihad? See numerous threads above.
Is the FCC run by a Clinton holdover? A LOT of not so subtle Fairness Doctrine implementing rules going into effect recently at that bureaucracy...
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