What will happen in 2009 when analog TV ceases? Is the Internet in jeopardy?

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[QUOTE=mswas]
Which is a private corporation. And well, it gets me to work on time, most days anyhow. :slight_smile: It’s quicker for me to get from Bed-Stuy to Chelsea by train than it would be by car.

Yea, it’s nice to see results. The problem with the subway though is that you have to build under people’s houses. The 2nd Avenue Line will be carved under the condos of a lot of very wealthy people. The G train is funky because it was the first line put in to bring garment workers from Greenpoint to downtown Brooklyn, or so I’m told. It’s annoying that it stops 5 blocks from the biggest subway stop in Brooklyn and 6 blocks from the biggest subway stop in Queens. It’s expensive to carve rock and deal with the people who want to protect their housing investments. We are a long way from Robert Moses and his ilk that made this city what it is today. You can see it in all the new construction too. No one puts pride in what they build, no real vision is applied to new construction. I think that goes for new train systems and actually making pretty apartment buildings.
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No, I just meant that if you compare New York to other large cities, then you’d probably see that they tend to have more going on, Mass-transit wise. Plus, New York needs to learn how to run a bus properly. That stupid metro card reader takes way too long. Also, the design is weird. Check out a bus in Europe sometime and see what it’s supposed to be like.

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I haven’t read all the responses, but it’s my understanding that this was supposed to have happened already. Large swaths of the radio spectrum were auctioned off early in the 1990s, so it’s a moot point. The new owners are surely getting a bit antsy by now. They paid for something they still don’t have the use of. Not that I agree with how this was handled at all. It was a big story at the time anyway.

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[QUOTE=Common Tater]
I haven’t read all the responses, but it’s my understanding that this was supposed to have happened already. Large swaths of the radio spectrum were auctioned off early in the 1990s, so it’s a moot point.
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If that is true, then why the panic shown on the links in the OP? Someone missed a memo?

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Here’s an explanation of what’s going on, along with a summary of the players and some of the issues, courtesy of Harold Feld, Vice President of the Media Access Project (which itself has an interest in the proceeding)

http://www.wetmachine.com/item/741