Fwd: RE: Group pressures Public Radio to air program

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

>At 01:22 AM 4/8/2003 -0400, Brian Vita wrote:
>>Can a station legally rebroadcast a feed off of Dish TV or is it forbidden
>>as it would be from XM or Sirius?
>
>
>Damn...that's a good question.   My gut instinct is that it is NOT 
>prohibited; the XM/Sirius restriction was a fairly special case designed 
>specifically to prevent XM/Sirius from competing as much with terrestrial 
>AM/FM networks.
>
>I'll have to look into this...
>- Aaron

Brian, I've asked around and the consensus of my sources is that - assuming 
you have the permission of the content creator - there's nothing stopping 
an AM/FM station from rebroadcasting content delivered via Dish Network or 
DirectTV.

One limitation would be than an LPFM cannot rebroadcast the content of a 
full-power terrestrial station, regardless of the delivery method.   In 
this case, though, since Democracy Now is originated at a separate location 
from WBAI, an LPFM could broadcast Democracy Now.


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