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- From: roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers)
- Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
- Subject: Re: Why is EVERYTHING good in the Western sats!
- Message-ID: <6nhraam@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:47:39 GMT
- References: <9212231851.AA25889@aurw6b.aur.alcatel.com>
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- In article <9212231851.AA25889@aurw6b.aur.alcatel.com> Mike Gingell <aurs01!aurw6b!gingell@CONCERT.NET> writes:
- >Phil Hunt phil@phunt.MV.COM writes:
- >>Why are they putting everything good onto westernmost satellites?
- >>Isn't that discriminatory against the East coast?
- >>
- >
- >Anyway, where did you get this info about any services moving to C1/F1 -
- >thats been fairly full for some time. There has been no discussion of this
- >on the net or any other media that I have seen. Many services ARE moving
- >to C3 (was F3 also known as F1R) at 131 degrees.
-
- 1) I posted a msg months ago about the fate of the Sportschannels on F4R.
-
- Roughly half of those SportsChannel affiliates are going to C1 and the
- other half to F2R.
-
- 2) Reason I think cable services are clumping together to the west:
- Put all the cable birds there so cable co's have an easier time
- receiving all of them. I know it can be received via "rectangular"
- dish when they were spread out, but I think clumping the satellites
- together makes it better. Since the west is historically "cable TV
- city", that must be the basis for putting replacement sats (F4R, for
- example) to the west.
-
- Robert
- roberts@triton.unm.edu
-