From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!smb
Newsgroups: net.records,net.music
Title: Re: FM SCA
Article-I.D.: unc.3766
Posted: Fri Jul 30 23:06:11 1982
Received: Sat Jul 31 06:15:16 1982


I heard an interesting item about SCA on "All Things Considered" last
week.  It seems that according to their charter and the FCC, NPR stations
are only allowed to sell their SCA to non-profit groups.  Currently, many
such channels are used to broadcast reading matter for the blind.  But --
given the budget crunch NPR and PBS are experiencing -- they're seeking
permission to sell the bands to private industry; it would be used to
broadcast digital signals to computers, etc., and the non-profit groups
would be relocated to a 68K hz subcarrier -- one which is apparently
unsuitable for the digital transmissions.