Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
– Ghost Busters
Broadcasters are warning FCC commissioners that allowing unlicensed personal, portable devices to operate in the tv spectrum could stop the DTV transition cold.
Broadcasters argue that their DTV signals will be sitting ducks if the FCC allows unlicensed wireless devices to share their digital spectrum, the so-called “white spaces”, the unused channels between DTV channels.
In meetings with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Deborah Tate, broadcast lobbyists painted a dire scenarios:
Breaking news might not get broken, they said. Hurricane warnings could be disrupted; those beautiful digital pictures could be garbled. They also showed testimony that NASCAR coverage could be affected.
OMG!
You’d think broadcast lobbyists would take their concerns to the broadcasters who are working to develop the 802.22 standard. Wouldn’t you.
At least Dick Wiley cut a nice royality deal for ATSC supporters and helped lock out the global DVB standard, based on ghost-resistant OFDM. Duh. Dear God, what do they want — free spectrum?
Oh, wait — corporate media already gets free tv spectrum.
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