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.