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| Thursday, August 3, 2006 |
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Finding God 
| | Every time I hit the road with my Sirius Satelite Radio receiver, I set the receiver to transmit audio to the car radio on 87.7 or 87.9. The FM dial for licensed stations starts at 88.1. Unless there's a strong local station on 88.1 or a Channel 6 TV station (the audio signal for which is at 87.75), nothing interferes with it. |
| | Lately, however, I've been noticing a pretty strong signal in Los Angeles on 87.7. It's in Spanish, and sometimes the music is nice. I've gathered that it has something to do with religion. Its handle is Guadalupe Radio. |
| | It also seems to have a following, since I saw at least one bumper sticker for it. |
| | I figured it must be a pirate of some kind, although it seemed big for that. Since it didn't seem to be interfering with anything official (the nearest Channel 6 is in San Diego, and doesn't put much of a signal in to L.A.), I guessed that it stayed on the air by the grace of absent complaints. |
| | Then a few minutes ago, sitting here at LAX, I decided to look it up. I found no reference to it in either Radio-Locator's list of L.A. area stations or in FCCInfo.com's list. So I decided to see if there were any other Channel 6's I didn't know about. Sure enough, at FCCInfo.com I found a construction permit for a low-power Channel 6: KLVP-LP, for "San Fernando Valley, CA". The transmitter is on Mt. Harvard, which is a peak just below Mt. Wilson, the antenna farm for most of Los Angeles' FM stations. KUSC/91.5 also transmits from that site. The power is listed at 500 watts, but I'm guessing that's for the visual signal. The audio signal would be less than that. |
| | Catholic Latinos in Los Angeles now have their first Spanish-language 24-hour-a day Catholic radio station. Guadalupe Radio hit the airwaves Feb. 2 to reach potentially millions of listeners. |
| | The mystery of its origins are revealed where it says this: |
| | The events leading to the first broadcast border on the miraculous. The radio station originated as Channel 6, a low-powered Los Angeles TV station. But, Habsburg said, radios all over the region pick up its audio signal clear as a bell on 87.7 FM. |
| | "As a TV station it¹s completely insignificant,² he said. "As an audio signal it's fantastic." |
| | But when this station unexpectedly became available for Guadalupe Radio, negotiations and finances failed. It was early December 2005. |
| | "All our human plans were falling apart," Habsburg said. |
| | Then unexpectedly, everything dovetailed. On Dec. 8, all parties suddenly agreed on all terms. On Dec. 9, St. Juan Diego¹s feast, the contract was signed. On Dec. 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the first payment sealed the contract. |
| | I've gotta hand it to religious broadcasters. They are amazingly resourceful in their engineering. All over the country they find ways to get signals out in places to where NPR-type public radio engineers throw up their hands. |
Reality 2.x
| | Even our Assembly Line software applications have disaggregated. All we have left is subscriptions to syndicated content, heuristically enhanced non-deterministic search, support for fulfilment and a framework to enable trust and collaboration. |
| | Governments and firms are left feeling helpless, as central control diminishes and the power of the individual rises, and they need to recognise that bell curves now have very long tails. |
| | As these changes come about, with individual capitalism and the subversion of institutions, we need new business models. What should these models do? One, make a clear stance on values and ethics. Two, allow relationships and collaboration to take place, rather than control the relationships. Three, intermediate to enable trust and fulfilment rather than channel towards lock-in. Four, recognise that the customer wants to create and co-create value rather than just receive. |
| | Use what you stand for to attract the customer. Use what you do to retain the customer¹s trust. Ensure that the customer is always free to leave, and paradoxically he or she will stay. Who is this customer? Your family. Your friend. Your employee. Your business partner. Your client. Your citizen. |
| | In a world of empowered individuals, everyone¹s a customer. |
| | There are barriers in the way, and serious ones at that. There is a need to overhaul everything to do with Intellectual Property Rights, be they patents or trademarks or copyright or DRM or whatever. There is a need to avoid over-regulation, the creation of bad law driven by institutional values. This is particularly true for every form of communication, affecting big media, telcos, "content producers", and the publishing industry in general. |
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