[opendtv] Re: News: CEA FORECASTS CONSUMER ELECTRONICS REVENUE WILL SURPASS $155 BILLION IN 2007
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:49:10 -0800
Politicians? Are you under some sort of reality-distortion field yourself?
The FCC is run by technocrats and those types are easily distinguished from
politicos at 100 meters in a rainstorm.
It's not what politicians say; I was referring to the Communications Act of
1934 as amended. You might want to read it from time to time.
It's not the privileged few who get licenses, its people who fill out
applications for construction permits. Luck and perseverance aren't
attributes of privilege.
Who cares what telecom guys/gals are crying? Just because somebody opens
their mouth about a new competitor doesn't mean a whit to anybody.
Only an ignorant idiot would say that ALL broadcasters don't pay for their
spectrum. There are annual spectrum-use fees, etc. Broadcasters who have
held their channels for decades didn't pay for the spectrum, but people who
have bought stations in recent decades (note how station sales are spiking
these days) have paid many millions of dollars for "free" spectrum.
John Willkie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Craig Birkmaier
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:59 AM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: CEA FORECASTS CONSUMER ELECTRONICS REVENUE
> WILL SURPASS $155 BILLION IN 2007
>
> At 11:34 AM -0800 1/10/07, John Willkie wrote:
> >Unfortunately, minimizing the number of broadcast stations has
> >always been 180 degrees from their mission under the communications
> >Act. (And, I'm not saying that they always did it well).
> >Deintermixture, for one, was very stupid, such as saying that
> >markets like Bakersfield, CA were to be UHF-only was very stupid.
> >
> Really?
>
> Mission statements from politicians are almost always misleading.
>
> One must look to their actions, which have been to consistently limit
> competition to OTA broadcasters, and to advantage the privileged few
> who can get licenses.
>
> There is no better example of this than what is happening in the
> mobile TV space. Now that the broadcasters are looking at A-VSB as a
> method to compete in the mobile market, the telecommunications guys
> are crying FOUL!
>
> "We are paying through the nose for spectrum to deliver advanced
> services like mobile TV, and now the broadcasters - who don't pay for
> their spectrum - want to compete?"
>
> Regards
> Craig
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