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IP: Re: Big radio bites back!
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 06:45:03 -0500
X-Sender: penfield/>X-Sender: penfield/pop.tiac.net@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 22:10:12 -0500 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Jock Gill <jgill () penfield-gill com> Subject: Re: IP: Big radio bites back! I love the misspelling in the last line Dave, After listening to Dwayne Hendrick's excellent and very informative lecture at Stanford -- the link to the lecture is: <http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/seminars/ee380/000503-ee380-100.asx> -- I can see why big [OLD] radio could be scared of any change. Much less a change from bandwidth is scarce to bandwidth is abundant. I think most all of IP would find Dwayne's lecture truly informative: for starters the idea of wireless bandwidth having parity with land line, fiber, bandwidth is startling. Thanks to Brewster Kahle for the link. Regards, Jock At 09:33 PM 11/02/2000 -0500, you wrote:http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2000/10/16/lpfm/index.html Big radio bites back! Major broadcasting companies and NPR are ganging up on low-power FM radio. Can John McCain save the day? - - - - - - - - - - - - By Eric Boehlert Oct. 16, 2000 | This is the story of how big broadcasting is trying to kill the low-power radio star. To most ears, low-power radio -- 10- or 100-watt stations with a broadcast range of a few square miles at most -- sounds like a cheap, easy and democratic way of giving communities a small but potent voice on the dial. But now, 21 months after the Federal Communications Commission first proposed creating a new brand of low-power FM radio stations, the initiative is fighting for its life. It's being smothered at the request of broadcasters during a last-minute closed-door horse-trading session on Capitol Hill. And holding the pillow on the patient's head is a surprising pair: the powerful National Association of Broadcasters -- and noncommercial National Pubic Radio.Jock Gill, Director Voice: (781) 396-0492 eFAX: (425) 795-5918 www.e-greenstar.com
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