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Last week the FCC and broadcasters approached an agreement to phase in new rules that should make the sharper images of digital or high-definition TV available in time for the 1998 football season. By then, broadcasters such as NBC and CBS have agreed, the nation's top 10 markets will be getting the richer television signal--which includes lush digital sound and a crystal-clear picture. Still, few analysts expect HDTV to take off anytime before the millennium. Between the $3,000 price tag for the sets and the slow arrival of new programming, couch potatoes may have...
...hard to pick just one thing: for getting female listeners to bare their breasts in his studio, for saying Rodney King deserved his beating and Magic Johnson his HIV virus, for obsessing about the smallness of his penis, for having racked up a record $1.7 million fine from the FCC for uttering words like penis on air in an "indecent" context...
...signal. Another problem: no one seems to know what market, if any, exists for the digital service. For the moment, the bet is on people who travel frequently by car. Even when fully launched, though, digital radio would probably not attract enough customers to wipe out local stations, the FCC says. One possible reason: the end of free radio. Like cable TV, digital radio comes at a price, currently projected at between $5 and $10 per month. Using a special radio equipped with a disc-shaped antenna, customers could select a package of channels dedicated to specific topics like weather...
...moment since he was eight. He joined the computer revolution in third grade, when a teacher tried to keep the young math whiz quiet by marching him off to program a hulking mainframe. In high school, he and his pals jury-rigged a low-powered radio station that skirted fcc rules and broadcast student news and sports programs to the classrooms. In 1983 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lured the Yale grad to Redmond, Washington, where Glaser quickly ascended to the company's topmost ranks, just under Bill Gates...
...with FCC deregulation bringing as many as six new players to each wireless market and the industry upgrading from analog to digital (and adding data capabilities to every phone), Rossmann's timing looks impeccable. Earlier this month, Unwired Planet closed a deal with Qualcomm, which should be rolling out digital cellular phones that can receive news, weather and stock info with UP's software by late this year. "We know we've won when this technology becomes an expected feature, not a curiosity," says UP vice president Ben Linder. At the rate UP is going, managing a portfolio and checking...