IP: Re: Big radio bites back!

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 22:10:12 -0500
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> 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
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