Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? [holds up one finger]
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean shit.
- City Slicker
LG and Samsung have joined forces to develop a single standard for mobile digital television using broadcaster’s DTV signals. The two companies [...]
C/Net reports the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio may have sailed through a U.S. Department of Justice review without conditions, but key congressional Democrats are urging the Federal Communications Commission to impose limits designed to protect consumers.
In a letter on Thursday (PDF), Reps. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Edward Markey [...]
The nation’s largest group owner of radio stations, Clear Channel, wants the FCC to regulate ‘edgy’ content on any merged XM/Sirius satellite radio company. The merger would bring both companies a total of more than 17.3 million subscribers based on current subscriber numbers as of 2008.
Clear Channel’s filing represents a rare instance in [...]
What is DISH Networks going to do with their 6 MHz block, won in the FCC’s recent 700 MHz auction?
According to Unstrung, Frontier Wireless, the wholly owned subsidiary of Dish, bid about $711.8 million to snap up 168 licenses in the E-block during the recent 700 MHz auction. Their 8-K document filed Friday (March [...]
Will Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio merge? Regulators may be set to make a decision about the merger today, says a CNN Money blog.
Briefing.com”, a site that is widely followed by traders, is citing an unnamed report Wednesday morning saying that “XMSR-SIRI merger could receive approval from DoJ and FCC tonight.”
That [...]
According to RCR News, the FCC recently decided to better ascertain how competing 2.3 GHz band wireless services in the United States can operate without disrupting each other. Terrestrial satellite radio repeaters (DARS) and spectrum for 2.3 GHz Mobile WiMAX threaten to become another Nextel debacle, creating interference and disruption from battling services on neighboring [...]
United Launch Alliance successfully launched the fourth modernized GPS Block II R-M military NAVSTAR today from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, following a launch of the nation’s first Wideband Global SATCOM communications spacecraft last week, reports SpaceflightNow .
GPS is being modernized to offer new signals and codes. GPS 2R-M (for Modernized), provides two new military signals [...]
Bridge Ratings says traditional and satellite radio will take a significant hit in listening about a decade after WiFi and WiMax technologies are available in-car.
Bridge Ratings surveyed consumers and device manufacturers and projects that WiFi in-car should reach more than 50% of the U.S. population after nine years of market availability.
According to Bridge, [...]
CNet reports if the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio goes through, the combined company plans to offer packages of channels at reduced rates, including a 50-channel offering that’s almost half the price of today’s lowest-price option.
XM Satellite Radio (170 digital channels, 8 million subs) and Sirius Satellite Radio (130 digital [...]
Ibiquity’s HD Radio system, which encodes FM broadcasts as a digital pulse stream, has completed testing of a conditional access system in Chicago, transmitting traffic data services to radio listeners. “Conditional access” might be considered a euphemism for “pay radio”
According to their press release, Broadcast Electronics, Emmis Communications and NDS conducted the project, with involvement [...]
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