[BC] A Change of Topic on Network News Feeds

[markc]

I don't go back quite far enough to remember that improvement, but I do
remember the day I came to work at our college station and UPI news sounded
incredibly better to my relatively uneducated ears than it had the day
before. I was not privy to any projects happening (I was nothing but a
volunteer announcer/music host in those days). 

When I asked the station manager what happened, he told me that the station
across town had gotten a satellite dish, and instead of getting our UPI via
ATT Long Lines we had a broadcast loop from KRFO to our studio.

It sounded amazingly better. This was probably in late 1982 or maybe 1983.

Now we all have multiple dishes at our stations and generally take satellite
delivery and the relative quality for granted until it goes away, as has
happened a couple of times in my recollection.

I don't regret coming in at the END of the telco era for network delivery. I
also haven't had a telco STL since the late 80s, and I don't regret that,
either.

Mark
MN



---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Stanley Adams" <stanleybadams at yahoo.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:17:28 -0500
Subject: [BC] A Change of Topic on Network News Feeds

> Just as a cot, do any of you buckeroo's or buckerette's remember 
> when the networks went from the poor 8kc loops (at best) to better 
> multiplexed audio even before satellites?  It seems to me to have 
> happened about 1974-75 in our part of the country.  Suddenly the 
> audio came alive on network feeds.
> 
> I was living in a little town at the time and noticed that this 
> was both on radio and on TV feeds.  Perhaps it was just a regional 
> thing, but I do not remember it that way.  Seems like a major 
> upgrade and the newspapers had stories about it.