Sentence examples for a terrestrial station from inspiring English sources
But music executives say that having a terrestrial station in the area will be a major help in selling concert tickets and promoting new music.
Ken Freedman, station manager at the free-form radio station WFMU in New Jersey, said, "It's not realistic for a terrestrial station to move online and maintain the same audience".
Tom Poleman, Clear Channel's president of national programming platforms, said the online station was intended partly as a test of the format, and that the reaction to it was so positive — it instantly became the most popular digital-only station on iHeartRadio — that the company decided to give it a go as a terrestrial station, where the investment and risk are, of course, much greater.
For example, he says Pandora earns slightly more than $40 million in revenue annually but will pay out some $30 million in licensing fees this year hardly the same percentage of income a terrestrial station might give up.
For example, he says Pandora earns slightly more than $40 million in revenue annually but will pay out some $30 million in licensing fees this year--hardly the same percentage of income a terrestrial station might give up.
Tommy Bruno, the General Manager of FM 104.1 The Summit Radio, a listener supported terrestrial station also in Northeast Ohio, acknowledges that a new era of radio is here.
"Long term, nobody needs a terrestrial radio station," said Larry Keeley, a board member at Chicago Public Radio.
Rather than string instruments, 105.5 FM listeners now hear Sputnik, a terrestrial radio station named for the satellite that started the space race.
Also last week, the Federal Communications Commission lifted a major hurdle to Pandora's efforts to buy a terrestrial radio station in South Dakota that the company says would entitle it to industry deals for lower songwriting rates, regardless of the decisions in its recent disputes with BMI and Ascap.
Cosby Bikpe is a trained technician who works at a terrestrial television station in the capital, Accra.
The tension between the two is so bad that Pandora recently acquired a terrestrial radio station just so it can pay lower fees to stream music online.
