Although anyone with an antenna can pick up a station's signals for free, cable and satellite companies typically pay stations and networks for the right to distribute their programming to subscribers.
Apple's application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office describes a process for placing an order and then notifying customers when an order is ready to grab at a pick-up station.
And what's that meant, in what they pick up on their doorstep or pick up in the subway station every morning?
If you prefer to hire a car for the last leg of the journey, try Station Self Drive, with car rentals for pick up at the train station in Haverfordwest.
Anyone with an antenna can pick up a TV station's signals for free.
The nursery had to cancel its Christmas carol concert, and parents were called to pick up their children from Stone fire station.
She was nominated for an Oscar again in 2010 for her role as Tolstoy's wife in The Last Station and is tipped to pick up another nomination next year for playing Alfred Hitchcock's wife opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins in Hitchcock.
Taxi drivers using the approach road to Bristol Temple Meads railway station will have to pay to pick up passengers.
BBC: Bristol Temple Meads taxi drivers to pay station permit fee
Pump the subway station full of molecules that switch off the receptors that pick up nasty odors, and you can, in effect, neutralize an assault on your nose.
"Where before users would pick up their phone, taking their eyes off the road and hands off the steering wheel while driving to select a station and hit play, AppLink makes all of that functionality available through voice control, just like managing AM and FM radio or your MP3 player through SYNC, " said Julius Marchwicki, SYNC product manager.
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