If they perceive a threat, they'd try lawsuits, strong-arming the content providers, and legislation.
How many congressmen can YOU afford? -
Yea, that content list was a bit aggressive.
How 'bout an hour or block of detective/comedy/etc shows every day?
Look at the programming for ThisTV. It's a pretty good model.
And what about repeating the one 8-hour programming block all day long?
My local Japanese station shared time on channel 18 with other language programming.
Now, they've got their own sub-channel (18.2?) and not enough content.
So, if you miss a good show, you can tune in later to catch it.
Actually, a
very good idea!
Especially if you don't have a PVR, or if you are up nights.
Anole,
I agree, the content I listed was quite dreamy and having multiple channels is probably not feasible - budgetwise. But, I was feeling really giddy about discussing all the great old programs with the guys at work and as we rattled them off, I was writing them down. It might be a list just to work from.
What do you think of the microwave tower in the pix? It is only approximately 6 miles from my house. If you would like to see it from an arial perspective, you can view it through Google Earth at 41d 37'30.18" N / 96d 25'07.52 W. It shows up pretty good, but with a shadow from the tower to the north.
With the tower being 199 feet in height, and that close to my house, I could transmit low power signals to it (possibly) and control some of the operations direct from home.
I could also link to local stations (esp. University stations) and rebroadcast their stuff, provided it adheres to the FCC rules and other legalities.
The generator is for backup power and is in working order, as far as I was informed. Therefore, the station uplink could be maintained in the event of a power outage. However, I imagine that the power supply to this site was quite protected since it was originally a major link in the east to west coast telephone connections during the 70's and early 80's.
One thing that might also be neat and interesting to do, if anything ever flies here, is a camera could be set up to provide a few minutes of viewing of the local weather at the uplink station. That video could be uplinked between movies or programs occasionally so that the end user could actually see what the current weather conditions were at the site. During night or foggy conditions, the video could be turned off or switched to some other content with a scrolling info bar of the local weather conditions at the uplink station. Just kind of a cool idea.
Of course, if the weather is so bad that the uplink signal is killed, no one will see it anyways, but when it is only weakened, you would be able to see why first hand.
Oh, and one special note. I would think that this signal would have to be maintained as a Ku band DVB-S/QPSK signal only (as opposed to DVB-S2/8PSK) so that everyone involved in FTA could capture it with just about any existing digital equipment they already own.
I sure wish I could win a big pot in the PowerBall! I would definitely be jumping on this really hard, if I did. That would at least allow me to purchase the equipment myself, directly and personally. I do have a good start with this, I won $4 Wednesday!
Gordy
