Dude...I thought that was a photo of Seth Green.

I agree with her/him and would not be surprised if those concessions were already contemplated.

I can see them agreeing to her most of her concessions, but 5%?? Is there REALLY that much non-commercial "educational & informational" programming available?? And 5% of what?? Bandwidth? Channels? Time? If there's 300 channels post merger, and it's 5% of channels, that's NINE CHANNELS. Jeez...

However, 5% of your programming TIME is only 8.4 hours per week...PER CHANNEL (probably)... or 2,520 programming hours!! Terrestrial radio doesn't even need to do 8.4 HOURS per week!

I do not agree on point #1. Simply because if she wants these for Sat Radio than she should tell who ever needs to be told that Cable companies need these restrictions. If I do not want telemundo, BET, TCM, QVC than I should not be paying for them.

BTW, thanks Ryan for being their for us. I was hoping that Sirius had access to the C-SPAN3 broadcast but at least I get to read about it when I get how.

Oh and now on to reading about our friend dave rehr. yippee.

I fully agree that a non-commercial set-aside will be part of any merger approval. It is already standard in the only other consumer satellite service, DBS TV. Personally, I would like it as well, with a few additional conditions:

Of the 5% set-aside capacity:
* A maximum of one-fifth (and a minimum of 0) would be allocated to governmental units, whether domestic or foreign (Note that this would not prevent the merged satrad provider from carrying more than 1% government owned or controlled channels, but only 1% could count toward set-aside requirements.)
* A maximum of one-fifth (and a minimum of 0) would be allocated to non-profit organizations which already have significant holdings in terrestrial radio. This provision is primarily aimed at preventing large non-com groups such as Educational Media Foundation or American Family Association from dominating the NCE bandwidth on satrad.
* Each non-profit organization may own or control a maximum of one channel within the NCE set-aside, until or unless every non-profit group that wants a station has one. Airtime may be leased to independent producers who do not own or control a satrad set-aside station. Airtime may not be leased to organizations which already own or control such a station.

I think these are some fair ground rules, which would ensure that 3/5 of the NCE set-aside content is from smaller, more diverse voices, instead of government and big radio conglomerates.

(I also wonder if the Canadian CRTC would demand a 1 or 2 percent set-aside for Canadian non-profits. Certainly a possibility.)

She was also going on about LOCAL educational programming . That isnt even possible is it? The signal is broadcast nationwide.

Is that a man or a woman?

I think his/her cromozones merged