I'd try to watch the local stations if I could get, but sometimes you just can't get the station. Most dish owners would like to have their local stations but
Back when my family was using a satellite dish (C-band, mind you), we used a in-the-clear antenna to get our locals. We live in the middle of the city and couldn't get any reception for our CBS affilate in town. Thanks to these laws, we couldn't enjoy our favorite shows on CBS!
Thankful my mother has cable now and we enjoy that but my poor father is on the road with a digital dish. That's his only source of entertainment and since he does travel around, he'd like some stability in his life. He can't get the station of his choice because the current market he's end feels they'll be cheated.
Why, my father is paying the money for the networks when his subscription. The dish companies have to license the networks to begin with, I believe. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to distribute the licensing fees/revenue sharing between Ass End, AK; Savannah, GA; or Philadelphia, PA. There are ways, it's just that sometimes the bottom line is all anyone sees, that they forget the little guy that is paying for the bottom line!
And yes, there's ways to circumvent local/national feeds. WXIA of Atlanta is having to do it for dish users that want to see "The West Wing" tonight. They could probably figure out better ways if they put their mind to it.
As another person that suffers from depression, I think what you said has it pretty much summed up.
While I hope the mother does get the information she's looking for to explain her son's death, no amount of money is going to fill the hole in her heart left when he son died.
If nothing is done within the video game industry from this lawsuit, I hope at least something can be done in mental illness research so other people won't lose a loved one from depression.
I don't think we simply have computers just for Internet radio.
I enjoy listening to the radio via Internet for the diversity it offers. I used to listen to an weekly '80's program on the Internet until the ruling about advertisment and money forced it to stop streaming until the owner of the program could find a solution to the ruling. But the '80's program was not available in my area and it was much better than the one that was offered.
I can also preview radio stations in an area before I visit it. I can enjoy a station in an area I do not live at. I can find music that would take forever for the radio to play here in my town. And like some of the others said, corporate radio airwaves suck. When given the chance, I'd much rather listen to the Internet than the local stations.
Now that I gave a long winded answer, let me give you a short simple one - variety. And lots of it.
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Back when my family was using a satellite dish (C-band, mind you), we used a in-the-clear antenna to get our locals. We live in the middle of the city and couldn't get any reception for our CBS affilate in town. Thanks to these laws, we couldn't enjoy our favorite shows on CBS!
Thankful my mother has cable now and we enjoy that but my poor father is on the road with a digital dish. That's his only source of entertainment and since he does travel around, he'd like some stability in his life. He can't get the station of his choice because the current market he's end feels they'll be cheated.
Why, my father is paying the money for the networks when his subscription. The dish companies have to license the networks to begin with, I believe. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to distribute the licensing fees/revenue sharing between Ass End, AK; Savannah, GA; or Philadelphia, PA. There are ways, it's just that sometimes the bottom line is all anyone sees, that they forget the little guy that is paying for the bottom line!
And yes, there's ways to circumvent local/national feeds. WXIA of Atlanta is having to do it for dish users that want to see "The West Wing" tonight. They could probably figure out better ways if they put their mind to it.
As another person that suffers from depression, I think what you said has it pretty much summed up.
While I hope the mother does get the information she's looking for to explain her son's death, no amount of money is going to fill the hole in her heart left when he son died.
If nothing is done within the video game industry from this lawsuit, I hope at least something can be done in mental illness research so other people won't lose a loved one from depression.
I don't think we simply have computers just for Internet radio.
I enjoy listening to the radio via Internet for the diversity it offers. I used to listen to an weekly '80's program on the Internet until the ruling about advertisment and money forced it to stop streaming until the owner of the program could find a solution to the ruling. But the '80's program was not available in my area and it was much better than the one that was offered.
I can also preview radio stations in an area before I visit it. I can enjoy a station in an area I do not live at. I can find music that would take forever for the radio to play here in my town. And like some of the others said, corporate radio airwaves suck. When given the chance, I'd much rather listen to the Internet than the local stations.
Now that I gave a long winded answer, let me give you a short simple one - variety. And lots of it.