[SBE] The future of Broadcasting.

[Kent Winrich]

Please dont sit down and shut up Cowboy!  You make too much sense.  And your
experience is something that is greatly needed.  Dont let the naysayers shut
you up!



On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net> wrote:


>

>  Kinda my point as well, however some of the comments made seem

>  to fit right in to that model.

>

>  IMHO, the future of broadcasting is on-line, strictly pay TV, or some

>  variant thereof.

>

>  For *ME* it doesn't much matter.

>  Since I'm a project engineer, building studios, stacking steel, tuning

> DA's,

>  hanging bat-wings, and the like, *I* will still have the same work I've

>  always had ! ( OK, maybe AM DA's will go away )

>

>  There will still be "radio" studios. There will still be "evening news"

> sets.

>  There will still be GMA studios, but none of these will be feeding

>  terrestrial transmitters.

>

>  There will still be terrestrial transmitters, but it won't be broadcast

>  studios feeding them.

>

>  As a project engineer, all of the things I've been doing for the

>  past 30+ years will still need doing.

>  Today's "broadcast engineer" be he/she radio or TV, I'm

>  not so sure ! Methinks that's most of YOU !

>

>  Sure, there's been a distinct lack of project work the last two or

>  three years, except for the 2 gig Sprint thing, and HD TV, both

>  of which are aimed at dismantling conventional broadcast and

>  taking away spectrum, but that'll change.

>  Someone will have to build the private industry "broadband" into

>  the former broadcast spectrum, so I *will* have work.

>

>  OK, off-topic. I'll shut up and sit down now.

>

> --

> Cowboy

>

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>

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>                -- Booker T. Washington

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