[BC] Staffing levels

[Bob Boxer]

I was at Sporting News (nee One On One Sports) and had a hand in setting up
the distribution system.  The space segment had already been contracted for
in the hopes of launching a satellite distribution business but for a
variety of reasons that project never really got off the ground.  The cost
of the Starguide channels may have been charged back to the individual
stations but at the corporate level there was no added cost in utilizing
that space.

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Bob Boxer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net 
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Dana Puopolo
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:48 PM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] Staffing levels
> 
> Yeah, but Sporting News' "solution" cost a fortune. They had 
> individual Starguide channels for each owned stations STL! 
> Three stations = over $15K a month.
> 
> Our STL in Los Angeles went from Santa Monica, CA via dial up 
> ISDN (paying 10 cents a month long distance rates) to 
> Chicago, then out the satellite.
> 
> A complete waste of time (especially when T1's from Chicago 
> to LA cost about 1200.00 a month) if you ask me!
> 
> But then again, Scott had better things to do-like read every 
> engineers'
> emails they sent or received....
> 
> -D
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:12:02 AM EST
> From: Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com>
> 
> To some extent, we too are doing this as well.  Two of our 
> stations rent space at a local studio for it's compulsory 
> main studio and we program everything from two locations, 
> feeding everything by T-1 to the TX.  Sporting News did this 
> before they sold their stations.  Anyone who has been a 
> reader of these lists know the trend is towards general 
> operational consolidation is progressing faster than ever.
> 
> 
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