E se os operadores via satélite conseguirem frequências hertzianas?
«NAB president/CEO David Rehr accuses XM of wanting to purchase a block of WCS sepctrum in order to develop local, potentially terrestrial-based service. In its original mandate in granting licences to XM and Sirius, the FCC was careful to insist that the companies offer only nationwide broadcasting».
(fonte: NAB Chides FCC Over XM Interest In WCS, Billboard Radio Monitor, March 02, 2006, By Chuck Taylor)
Mas há rádios hertzianas a emitirem via satélite: «
One of America's pioneering AM broadcasters, station WLW in Cincinnati, is now being rebroadcast on XM channel 173. WLW becomes the first terrestrial station to be relayed fulltime via satellite.
Until the early 1980s, stations such as WLW were known as "clear channel" stations (not to be confused with "Clear Channel," the broadcasting giant!). Such "clear channel" stations had, at most, only one or two other stations operating on their frequency at night, used high power (50,000 watts), and usually non-directional antennas. As a result, such stations could be heard throughout much of North America at night; stations such as WLW and WLS, 890, in Chicago could be regularly heard throughout the "lower 48" at night during the winter.
With increasing numbers of stations authorized to operate at night on AM, the "clear channel" era drew to a close by the late 1980s. And now a pioneering "clear channel" broadcaster moves to the clearest channel of all, satellite.»
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