Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

David, I surmise that stations aren't interested in doing that unless
a gun were held to their heads.

SCA is different - it doesn't directly compete with the principal
station's programming.

Look at the situation up in Buffalo - Entercom is the dominant player,
and parks ESPN on its 50 kW WWKB transmitter at the same time it
operates its own locally-originated sports format on 5 kW WGR.  You'd
think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB
would annoy shareholders, but Entercom is loath to sell the 1520 WWKB
frequency as it would introduce a new competitor or strengthen an
existing one.

As our colleague Mr. Figliozzi would point out, this points out a
significant flaw in our commercial radio licensing model - the fact
that spectrum space is a publicly owned asset, and should be managed
to maximize the public good, is lost on the FCC and the rest of our
government

RC

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:17 AM, David Goren <shortwaveology@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a prohibition for stations to lease their HD-2 and HD-3 in a manner similar to FM subcarrier stations? Otherwise, that could be a model.
_______________________________________________
Swprograms mailing list
Swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms

To unsubscribe:  Send an E-mail to  swprograms-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.