I'm on the other other side of the table...the side of the public, who's airwaves you transmit on. FTA television and radio are public services - in case you forgot. We attract interested parties who are willing to provide a free service on our airwaves. In return, we allow them to make a reasonable profit for their efforts. On 14-Feb-06, at 11:49 AM, Mark Aitken wrote: > Before I started working on this side of the table, I (too) thought I > knew a lot about Broadcasting. After all, I had 23 years as a > manufacturer of Broadcast equipment, had relationships with all the > major Broadcasters and Networks. > Then reality hit. > > John, how many years have you spent as a Broadcaster? Do you truly > understand the subject you are talking about? Where is your data? And > just who (exactly) are these "plenty of others" that are so willing to > work within the proscribed confines? (the list of questions goes > on, but > I would not want to bore everyone with my tirade ;^) ) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.