[SBE] The future of Broadcasting.

[Edwin Bukont]

Amen.

Edwin Bukont CSRE, DRB, CBNT 
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> From: curt at spam-o-matic.net

> To: sbe at sbe.org

> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:20:40 -0400

> Subject: Re: [SBE] The future of Broadcasting.

> 

> On Monday 15 March 2010 01:30:00 pm Dan Rapak wrote:

> > First of all, in having this discussion, I think we need to differentiate

> > between radio and television. Maintaining radio is crucial in that the

> > dissemination of information in times of emergencies cannot be left to the

> > wired infrastructure.

> 

> But radio has abdicated this responsibility, and no one seems to care.

> 

> > That's radio. When it comes to television no one on this list is going to

> > want to hear what follows. With respect, I think we may be missing the

> > point. The core issue is not so much what the FCC or the government will or

> > will not do. The issue is the marketplace.

> 

> It used to be that "when severe weather strikes" the local AM was the

> place to go. Radio.

> These days, the adjacent town TV is the better place, lacking as it is.

> 

> These are programming issues, not engineering.

> Unfortunately, they are programming issues that severely affect

> engineering in a very direct and devastating way.

> 

> -- 

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> Accident, n.:

> A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of

> body is better.

> 

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