On Jan 9, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Richard Cuff <[email protected]> wrote: > David, I surmise that stations aren't interested in doing that unless > a gun were held to their heads. > > SCA is different - it doesn't directly compete with the principal > station's programming.
There are a couple of HD-2's in NYC that are ethnic and wildly different from the main channel. There's a South Indian format, and a Carribean Gospel one last time I checked. Mostly, though the HD-2 format is a slight variant of the main format. > > Look at the situation up in Buffalo - Entercom is the dominant player, > and parks ESPN on its 50 kW WWKB transmitter at the same time it > operates its own locally-originated sports format on 5 kW WGR. You'd > think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB > would annoy shareholders, but Entercom is loath to sell the 1520 WWKB > frequency as it would introduce a new competitor or strengthen an > existing one. > > As our colleague Mr. Figliozzi would point out, this points out a > significant flaw in our commercial radio licensing model - the fact > that spectrum space is a publicly owned asset, and should be managed > to maximize the public good, is lost on the FCC and the rest of our > government > > RC > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:17 AM, David Goren <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is there a prohibition for stations to lease their HD-2 and HD-3 in a manner >> similar to FM subcarrier stations? Otherwise, that could be a model. > _______________________________________________ > Swprograms mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL > shown above. > _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
