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Subject: Re: Put all BBC radio back on Astra 2B

Author:
Lew

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Date Posted: 06:59:41 01/26/04 Mon
In reply to: repcrac 's message, "Re: Put all BBC radio back on Astra 2B" on 06:53:48 01/26/04 Mon

>>There aren't royalty problems with any of the BBC
>>Radio stations.They were FTA for 13 years UNTIL the
>move
>>last May.Even now the BBC is broadcasting them FTA,
>>albeit just for a few lucky sods living inside the
>>footprint.What's interesting is that satellite
>>transmission is used on top of analogue fm, lw and mw
>>and terrestrial DAB.So, they provide the satellite
>>signal for services listeners can largely access by
>>other means.What's the point in using a satellite only
>>covering areas already covered by analogue and digital
>>signal?
>
>Good question! As far as I know you seem to be the
>first person to have asked it. I suppose the answer
>must be: "just for a few lucky sods living inside the
>footprint".
>
>Greg Dyke and his friends on holiday in Spain?
>
>Greg Dyke and his friends on holiday in France?
>
>Greg Dyke and his MEP friends on holiday in Brussels?
>
>Greg Dyke and his friends on holiday in Iceland?
>
>Seriously, though, I suspect the rationale is cost
>cutting for the future, when terrestrial transmissions
>are ditched and all the BBC home channels (both radio
>& TV) will be on satellite. It's all part of the
>globalistic economy drive (like using cheap Chinese
>labour etc.)
>
>I once heard that even that option could soon be made
>redundant by experimental (German?) technology which
>uses the old short-waves in a new way as cheap and
>highly efficient carriers of digital content. Alas, no
>comfort for us there either, I fear: it'd be even
>easier to keep Continentals from looking in through
>the window!
>
>Are there any reliable figures for the internet
>audience, I wonder?

I remember hearing about digital short-wave yonks ago. Whatever happended to it? Has it ended up in the same place as eight-track and laserdisk?

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Re: Put all BBC radio back on Astra 2B	mark1	10:59:52 01/26/04 Mon