I remember once watching a NFL game between Minnesota and New England on T302. Nothing memorable about the game, expect that it went to overtime. Later on i changed channels and found the Raiders/Rams game, also on T302. These were CBS feeds.
Ah, yes! Satellite TV week! That was a handy guide. It's all coming back to me T301 and 302, G4. I remember one of them going down (this was before the 1998 outage) and a lot of feeds moving..some which normally were scrambled weren't. We could pick up a French language station from Montreal which mostly ran American shows and movies dubbed into French. There's nothing like watching The Blues Brothers and the Adam West "Batman" in French (le Pow?). There was also something called the Las Vegas Television Network that launched. Daytime and evenings had everything from interviews with Las Vegas stars of the past to a kids show..and overnights were soft porn.
Interesting times.
I once watched a Montreal Canadiens game...in French. It was from SRC, and they were playing an American team. I couldn't understand what the announcers were saying, but it was interesting to hear the game called in French.
Satellite TV Week had some programs listed on a "Recurring Feeds" section. I have the 9/21/86 edition right next to me, and a few programs listed were:
Donahue on W5-15, 9a/10a ET weekdays
Merv Griffin at 8p weeknights, T301-9 (Wold Communications)
PM Magazine at 9:10a weekdays, W5-18 (This was the Group W feed channel)
This Week in Baseball on T301-23, Thursday morning 1a ET and another feed at 8:15p ET. T301-23 was one of a few Wold Communications feed channels, another was T301-9.
PBS had three national feeds in 1986, Westar 4-15, 17 and 21. The schedules varied by time zone.
Were shows fed with or without commercials? Did it depend on the network/production company or sydincator?
Were shows fed with or without commercials? Did it depend on the network/production company or syndicator?
Were shows fed with or without commercials? Did it depend on the network/production company or sydincator?
Some shows were fed with the national commercials. Black spots were local breaks. Sometimes you'd see several promos during that time. Those are barter, or cash + barter programs. Programs with 2-3 minutes of black screen in between were cash-only programs. The Simpsons is one of those.
Some shows were fed with the national commercials. Black spots were local breaks. Sometimes you'd see several promos during that time. Those are barter, or cash + barter programs. Programs with 2-3 minutes of black screen in between were cash-only programs. The Simpsons is one of those.
I found out rather quickly how professional broadcasters like Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel were on the air, but off, they could be idiots sometimes. Tom would sometimes make comments about his hairdresser sometimes. As far as Bryant and Jane, they seemed to spend every :25 break complaining about everything. Deborah Norville did that sometimes too, I'm not sure about Katie though. Dick Enberg, on NFL games seemed to do that too.