[BC] A Change of Topic on Network News Feeds

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

When satellite came to Arkansas, it was strange. My stations were the 
first in the state to carry ABC off the bird. The audience recation was 
mixed to say the least. People would call and ask who was sitting in for 
Paul Harvey. It was Paul, but no one in Arkansas apparently had heard 
him in "full spectrum". A friend in Dallas suggested putting the sat rec 
audio through a graphic eq to approximate the microwave/telco feed and 
then each day "flatten out" the curve a little. After about 30 days we 
took out the eq and never had any more audience confusion.

Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN
dpritchett1 at comcast.net


Jeff Allen wrote:

>Satellite around 1983 or so where I lived.  I still remember how weird the
>news anchors sounded after the change over to the bird.  I was used to that
>awful telephone quality sound for so long on the radio network news.
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