Monday, July 21, 2008

NAB successfully purchases FCC

The latest FCC panel member has said Sirius needs to reserve 25% for "minority" programming for his approval. Why does it have to be minority? Why not public access?? I'd say none out of principal, but it's an easy fix that they can leverage and it won't be too much of an impact. It shouldn't be anywhere near 25% either - CTV has 2 channels, DTV has none. It is the same thing, it's a pay service! OH, and here's where the millions spent by the NAB come in: they want to add HD radio compatibility of the radio as an additional requirement! Way to try and sneak that one through, I can only HOPE the rest of them have more sense then that (or can't be bought so easily), this is just despicable. NAB doesn't technically need to even get people to listen, they just need a consumer base to tell their advertisers about so they can ask for more money. You did not lose because of the quality, you lost because your model is old, outdated. People realize that they're willing to pay for media, but long term it's only going to go down in price.

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