NAB Lobbying To Constrain Local Content On Satellite Radio

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 29, 2004 @11:40AM from the envy-spite-protectionism dept.

DJAdapt writes "The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the organization that represents the large radio and television owners, is using its lobbyists, campaign contributions and political influence to have Congress and the Federal Communications Commission limit XM's ability to provide you with 'locally oriented' content, including the new XM Instant Traffic & Weather channels .... this is seriously what our government should be worried about? We're taking a trip back to the 70s, where AM was fighting FM."

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BAH by Inominate · 2004-05-29 11:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh wow, competition.
Bad. Evil. Unamerican.
XM is with the terrorists!
Re:This is just another step... by /dev/trash · 2004-05-30 13:12 · Score: 2, Funny

Well XM could do that, but the US could also push their satelittes back to earth, too.