On second thought, screw 'em. Fire up the Pirates. Every city needs at least a half dozen. Let anarchy rule.
Here comes the translators!
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Hoosier Daddy
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Re: Here comes the translators!
My response to this ought to be predictable. I am continually amazed at the FCC openly pandering to lobbyist groups like the NAB after taking the polar opposite stand on the same issue with "non-connected" private interests. Either there's enough room in the existing FM band for low power signals or there isn't. One way or another, and it applies to everyone. There are LPFM applications filed in 2000 that are still waiting on a license, yet translator apps filed in 2003 were approved within 90 days.
On second thought, screw 'em. Fire up the Pirates. Every city needs at least a half dozen. Let anarchy rule.
On second thought, screw 'em. Fire up the Pirates. Every city needs at least a half dozen. Let anarchy rule.
Translators are a Pox on the FM radio dial.
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Force Commander
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Re: Here comes the translators!
Now that you mention Pirates. I wonder why someone didn't think to petition the NAB to allow pirate interests to join the NAB. They seem often to be about dues paying members. This might have at least made the NAB neutral in the LPFM fight and gave the pirates a fighting chance to have gotten a better deal. Maybe if you can't beat 'em join 'em...........then rule them!
"We are the CC Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your broadcast stations. We will add your biological and creative distinctiveness to our own. Your broadcast personality will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
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genlock
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Re: Here comes the translators!
NAB and it's members are in a panic over falling ratings and revenues.
They, in turn, panic the FCC into doing something, anything, to help.
Government regulators do what they do best---they over do it and fail miserably.
More translators equal more listeners to NAB member stations or more interference to
member stations. Owners increase their desire for profit by cutting back on anything they see
as fat. Radio becomes a version of an iPod. Non-programmable, lower quality, less portable
and eaten up with commercials. Ratings and revenue drop. What to do?
Return to over-regulation of the media. Run the small owners and Non-members of NAB out.
The survivors then decide that this is the time to profit and cut everything but management,
sales and the pretty receptionist.
The old media is in a death spiral.
Personal media devices have killed radio.
Satellite and cable have killed local television.
The internet has killed newspapers and print magazines.
Collapse will happen soon. Call it a media bubble.
The end is near.
They, in turn, panic the FCC into doing something, anything, to help.
Government regulators do what they do best---they over do it and fail miserably.
More translators equal more listeners to NAB member stations or more interference to
member stations. Owners increase their desire for profit by cutting back on anything they see
as fat. Radio becomes a version of an iPod. Non-programmable, lower quality, less portable
and eaten up with commercials. Ratings and revenue drop. What to do?
Return to over-regulation of the media. Run the small owners and Non-members of NAB out.
The survivors then decide that this is the time to profit and cut everything but management,
sales and the pretty receptionist.
The old media is in a death spiral.
Personal media devices have killed radio.
Satellite and cable have killed local television.
The internet has killed newspapers and print magazines.
Collapse will happen soon. Call it a media bubble.
The end is near.
"Everyone Should be aware that you're just a screen grab away from infamy."
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Force Commander
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Re: Here comes the translators!
Everything you said has the potential to happen. We had better wake it up in terestrial media before it's too late.
"We are the CC Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your broadcast stations. We will add your biological and creative distinctiveness to our own. Your broadcast personality will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."