Yeah, all we need is a future presidential candidate to buy up a few tv networks and most of the commercial stations, then merge them into a grand enterprise with state-controlled media after taking office. Oh yeah, I forgot about the part where the entrepreneur cum leader finances his rise to commercial and political success, then uses government handouts to pay off his henchmen. Dale points out the cultural differences between U.S. broadcasting and the rest of the world, and says that the differences are too great for others to change us. You use that as Dale suggesting that we might try this system. What a prince! Let me know when the FCC or NTIA gives money to commercial TV stations, because we will have lost the freedom to fail in the U.S. John Willkie -----Mensaje original----- De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Manfredi, Albert E Enviado el: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:00 PM Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Asunto: [opendtv] How others do this http://www.dgtvi.it/stat/dgtvi/detail_TRS_ID=1547000_ID=2650.html Rai Way, the corporation that builds the OTA infrastructure in Italy, has planned out a 145M Euro program to achieve 85 percent DTT coverage of the territory. Today, they received 33M Euro for 2007, for Phase I, from the Ministry of Communications. Overall, they will be receiving 120M Euro for the 2007-2009 period. Apparently, parts of the Northeast, East coast, and South of the country have sparse DTT access now. (Not saying that's a better way. Just pointing out why there might be different solutions here and there. As Dale has suggested already.) Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.