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Listen To Your Favorite Television Show?

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Stuart

I know Sirius/XM broadcasts Fox News, CNN, Headline News, and MSNBC. How come they do not broadcast some of the Networks? When I lived in Philadelphia, WPVI (Channel 6, ABC) was broadcasted on the FM dial. This way when you are driving around, you can "listen" to your favorite shows.

Just curious,
Stuart
 
Stuart Greenberg said:
I know Sirius/XM broadcasts Fox News, CNN, Headline News, and MSNBC. How come they do not broadcast some of the Networks? When I lived in Philadelphia, WPVI (Channel 6, ABC) was broadcasted on the FM dial. This way when you are driving around, you can "listen" to your favorite shows.

Just curious,
Stuart
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Please, no. TV sitcoms and dramas don't work on radio, and there'd be rights issues to overcome for sports. Sirius XM carries too much television as it is -- lots of "As you can see here..." blather on newscasts referring to something the listener can't see makes for horrible radio.

Oh, and the reason WPVI was on your FM dial was not because the caring folks at Channel 6 wanted to reach people in cars with their audio. All channel 6s used to come in at the low end of the FM broadcast band in the analog era. That's where channel 6's audio frequency was.
 
Right, the FM band goes down to 88.0, but radios do not stop there.
 
There's the "Frankenstein FM" stations - they are LPTV stations that broadcast analog audio on the old channel 6 frequency, and you can receive their audio on the low end of your FM radio. Some don't even bother to broadcast the video - just analog audio! I know NYC has one, and I think Chicago does; and the one in LA has enough listeners to make the book! The FM's are all whining about it, but why not? Since the cellphone companies are out to steal spectrum, why doesn't the NAB claim TV 5 & TV 6 for the FM band (since HDTV doesn't work for crap on VHF, especially low band VHF)?
 
It’s not a simple matter of just putting the networks on the air because they might want to. There’s the matter of who owns the rights to the programming, and of local affiliate who own the exclusive rights to those programs in their areas. There would need to be a lot of money changing hands for this to happen.
 
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