Word: fcc
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WTBU, 89.3 FM, the station of Boston University (BU) differs from the other stations primarily because it is not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The station broadcasts its programming through Boston University's buildings and dormitories and caters mainly to students...
...second theory points to HDTV. Last week the fcc approved HDTV guidelines that will make today's TV obsolete by 2006, forcing some 100 million consumers to upgrade to digital idiot boxes. Since each TV will include a Web browser and E-mail, the PC industry is worried about a slide in demand. Microsoft wants to make dead certain that if HDTV dominates the market for operating systems, the system you will be using is its--even if that means using Windows to watch Seinfeld instead of MS Word...
...such a gold mine, why did the FCC give broadcasters, at least for now, free access to the digital spectrum...
...Depending on whom you ask, the answer is either 1) because broadcasters have had Washington in their hip pocket for decades, or 2) because the start-up costs are going to be dramatic. Both are partly true. The FCC has long doled out airwave space gratis, and the networks, especially, have got rich as a result. But broadcasters will have to spend the next decade sending out pricey digital versions of their programs alongside the original ones while the audience for digital TV slowly builds. After nine years, the broadcasters are to return their old analog spectrum for auction...
Broadcasters will transmit both analog and digital signals for nine years until 2086, when all analog licenses will revert to FCC control. The old "channel 2 to channel 82" spectrum will be used for wireless Internet access, cell phones and other personal communications devices...