BSS SA holds vast expertise in providing satellite and telecommunication solutions all over the world. Owing to our teleport station at Lessive and at Liedekerke, you can utilize a major portion of Europe’s hot bird satellite activity. Renowned as the world class broadcasting solution providers, we offer customized and optimum quality satellite networks for Radio broadcasting. Counted among the most reliable internet over satellite providers, we very well understand that attaining the best technology is an ongoing challenge. Moreover, in view of the ever increasing demand for bandwidth intensive applications, we emphasize on optimum utilization of bandwidth so as to keep a tab on the rising space segment costs. Having tie-ups with leading satellite space segment providers, we have been selling space segment capacity for a number of years.

In order to meet the occasional or short term broadcasting and transmission requirements of the clients, we provide earth station leasing and transponder leasing services. If you are looking forward to expand your coverage areas across the globe but are skeptical about the idea due to budgetary constraints then our satellite solution is just the right thing for you. For increasing the coverage areas and subscribers in a quick and economical way, we provide point to Multipoint solutions, Point to Point solutions, Broadcast and Multicast applications, to link remote provinces to the main switching network.

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In the 1950′s and 60′s I remember listening to Chicago White Sox games on radio regularly with my grandfather. He had an old tube style radio cabinet in the living room, and also owned a small transistor radio that he would use when sitting in the front yard. Listening to White Sox games isnt particularly unique except that I was living in Greenville, South Carolina at the time. The games were hosted on a small hometown radio station, WMRB-1490AM, located in downtown Greenville. As I grew older I sometimes wondered why would Chicago games broadcast into the Deep South?

My interest was rekindled in 2006 when an investor purchased and relocated the Shoeless Joe Jackson house located at 119 East Wilburn Street. Unbeknownst to me, Jackson’s house was located just two blocks from where I attended Crestone Elementary School in 1958-60. Moreover, my grandpa and I lived less than one mile from East Wilburn Street. Jacksons house eventually became the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum now located in downtown Greenville. It was placed adjacent to the stadium that hosts a Single-A Boston Red Sox affiliate, the Greenville Drive. Again, I asked myself as to why were White Sox games broadcast in my hometown. Was Shoeless Joe Jacksons legacy connected to the broadcasts? Were the broadcasts the result of a fan base that had developed around Shoeless Joe? The idea was both interesting and intriguing.

I begin my search by contacting the new owner of WMRB 1490AM radio. WMRB was purchased by Randy Mathena in 1987 and renamed WPCI. Randy was friendly and responsive to my queries but was unable to substantiate the White Sox broadcasts. I wrote a letter to the widow of the founder of WMRB, Frank Cope, but didnt receive an answer. I found a research paper on the history of WPCI Radio written by some Furman University students. The paper was helpful in providing a general history of the

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Radio is an electronic device where transmission of signals take place with the help of modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies less than that of visible light. Workable radio communication was first developed by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1893. It is a mode of communication that went through lots of experiments and in early 1930s, single sideband and frequency modulation was invented and by the end of the decade they were developed in to established commercial modes. It is used as a mode of communication, entertainment and information. Communication is the basic need of human race. Without communication the whole world will come to a standstill. There are many things that satisfy this need and radio communication is one of the indigenous inventions that serve the need of mass communications. It provide us with entertainment and information through the various radio broadcasting. One single set of radio can serve to a whole community.

These days, digital radio has become incredibly popular for its content, availability and quality. There are different type of programs being broadcast by different radio channels. FM and AM radio stations broadcast different program of movie songs, foreign language songs, celebrity interviews, news and many more. The content of the radio may get heavily filled with jingles, mindless chatter and advertising. Digital radio has sustain its popularity for a long time not only at home but in the car as well. In UK, digital radio covers almost around 80 per cent with a new radio station being announced every week. Digital radio mostly being free of any advertising is one of its greatest advantage and its biggest selling point.

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