Re: [IRCA] IBOC battle begins

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> The entire argument that US citizens shouldn't be able to listen to
> whatever stations they can hear, especially when this has been the case
> for 80 years is below any rational consideration.

It's also, frankly, not an argument I hear being made by most of the 
actual broadcasters I talk to - rather, it seems to be a straw-man 
argument coming from the DX community.

The only exception is really over on the TV side of things, and that's 
an issue of contract law: if I'm a local TV station in market X, and 
I've contracted to pay a network or a syndicator a big chunk of money 
for exclusive rights to their programming in my market, I don't want the 
cable or satellite company offering a station from markets Y or Z that's 
carrying the same programming. Even at that, there's really nothing I 
can do about someone who puts up an antenna and gets markets Y or Z over 
the air. (Unless they're using the programming for something other than 
personal use, of course...say, a bar that's showing out-of-market 
sporting events without paying the appropriate rights fees.)

s
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