Bill, That is totally true, but how many people regularly can view a good grade A picture from outside their DMA? Few can. But Dish or Direct could sell any market to anyone. But legally they are not allowed to, and their local cities are mostly on spot beams now anyway. I have been told (off the record) that AM & FM stations want the same protection. A station in LA does not want someone listening to a station in San Francisco. With many of the same rules in buying programming that is exclusive to your market. If a station in LA carries Rush, then they have the rights and the station expects the person listening to Rush to listen to their local station in LA, not a station in another market. With digital radio such as IBOC, and doing away with analog, the IBOC signals do not get out far enough to listen to another station outside the DMA, so if you want to listen to Rush, you have to listen to him on your local station. With analog, and the lower frequencies you cannot do anything about a station skipping, but do away with analog, it is a different story.
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