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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