Satellite infrastructure is established, so it is there and works at a
moments notice. No reliance on terrestrial infrastructure. ISDN for
voice was also as well established, but lines are disapearing, so people
have to move to isdn over ip, or direct ip alternatives. This requires
reliable broadband hook-ups. Okay for fixed correspondents, and remote
offices, but a bit tricky in the field. ISDN sounded so clean people
started to complain correspondents must have been in the studio not in a
far and away country.
In the old days when I watched CNN a lot, they carried headline news
(i.e. same story for a day or more), mixed with international headlines,
and US feature shows like Larry King, Cross Fire, Money Line, and so on.
Overhere even the public broadcasters clear their schedules for hours
when there is no news, scared shitless for being accused of running
behind.
News is seldomly news anymore, as you have heared it before.
Kent Borg schreef op 28-09-2016 16:09:
On 09/28/2016 02:29 AM, cooleman@xxxxxx wrote:
Personally I think the show Amanpour is overrated, what is Assad gonna tell;-).
I am not that impressed with it. I was very disillusioned by a Brexit
episode where she confused a responsibility to confront "leave" lies
with being rude and incoherent. Yesterday I was tempted to hear her
international take on the US presidential election--and it was pretty
good; she let her guests speak.
CNN used to be everywhere till it started to reduce its distribution costs by shifting them to local/regional 'bouquet' (as the English used to say) operators.
CNN International might have changed since I last saw it, but it at
least used to be actual news. In the US the channel is shameless about
chasing ratings. If they can stretch a single event into hours of
breathless "Breaking story we are following..", they will. If they
think they can stoke fear to keep their eyeballs, they'll do that,
too.
Once I heard a tape of a WW II era radio news report about a fairly
small airplane that hit the Empire State Building. The reporter told
what he knew, then the story was over and they returned to regular
programming.
But back to cleaning up satellite delays on-the-fly, I am thinking it
has everything to do with how live switching happens these days and
whether it could be implemented at one spot or not.
Are there cases where a satellite link is cheaper than a competing
terrestrial link? Or is the one-to-many aspect of a satellite a
feature that is wasted in a point-to-point feed. Is there no savings?
Terrestrial bits are getting dang cheap, and a lot of picture quality
can be squeezed into not that many bits. Satellites might have an
insurmountable advantage for unscheduled events ("breaking!" news) in
that they can be provisioned to any address quickly: if you have or
can book transponder time transponder, roll a truck.
-kb
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