[secretagent]

I probably need to read more about this. If you have a link, I'll take a look.

[headsonpikes]

Sorry; no link re bandwidth info. I'm recalling an article I read some time ago, perhaps in Reason magazine.

Of course there's a 'shortage' in L.A., it's a huge, diverse market. But radios can easily be manufactured to allow more FM stations, for instance. And low-power AM stations could be thick as hair on a dog if folks wanted them. Television, of course, has been radically transformed by cable and satellite transmission.

This reality never impinges on the dead certainty of lawyers and bureaucrats that they should control access to these 'strategic' media. It is the political decisions by these 'disinterested' players which creates artificial 'shortages' of frequencies available for use.

Then comes the lobbying; then comes the corruption; but hey--it's 'the People's business' as usual.

Luckily for us all, Socialism is a Religion of Peace. ;^)