"Terrestrial" radio (was "Can WBCN lead listeners...")

[Attorney Robert S Chase]

I suppose it depends on how the packet went out on the backbone. If as most 
Internet traffic today it went over fiber, both on land and undersea, then I 
suppose it can be called terrestrial. However, if it made a satellite hop 
out into space with a hop back to earth, then I suppose you could call it 
partially extra-terrestrial. I prefer spaceless to terrestrial however, as 
in "spaceless radio.". Its just a neologism I just invented. <grin>

> I don't see anything about internet radio that would
> classify it as not being "terrestrial" either, though
> I keep hearing people also calling it not "terrestrial"
> as opposed to analog radio (though some wireless forms
> are rebroadcast via satellites).
>
> Eli Polonsky
>