[BC] CBS & NFL

[Alan Kline]

Last fall, I acquired a number of the Bell System Practices having to do
with television network distribution.  It absolutely boggles the mind what
Ma had to do to rearrange the networks.

But, IIRC, while there may have been a few choices on game days, (in the
days of landline distribution) I didn't think that it comes close to what
we have these days.  I'm sure someone will correct me if that's not
accurate...

ak

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote:

> Yes,  It was amazing that before the TV networks all went  satellite  all of
> these regional split networks were all routed and set up  by AT&T longs lines
> as ordered by CBS and NBC. I know many times in  Birmingham we could choose,
> as viewers,  which game our local was going to  pickup by voting the week
> before.  AT7T would give us the feed that was  voted on by the public.
>
> After the networks moved to satellite distribution,  AT&T stated  using the
> excess bandwidth for other services and suddenly switching and  rerouting video
> wasn't as readily available as before from AT&T.  More  satellite capacity
> was needed.