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maryjane JUL 11, 01:34 PM
For about a year (after hurricane Carla) we had a coat hangar with some tin foil wrapped around it.......
fierosound JUL 11, 05:46 PM
1995 - had a 12-foot dish with 50" Pioneer rear projection TV.
As theogre said, it became more and more useless as satellite channels started getting encrypted.
You'd spend a lot of time having the dish move and scan the channels.

Also the small RCA etc. digital satellites became available.
Had one of those two with grey-market access card.
I sold both systems off before I sold that house in 2000.

Now I have regular cable, and a dedicated HDMI laptop connection to stream virtually any online content to a 75" Samsung 4K UHD screen.

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82-T/A [At Work] JUL 11, 07:29 PM

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Originally posted by ls3mach:

Did that have anything to do with the satellite or it was just what happened while watching?




Yeah, it was directly because it was satellite. From what I understood, it was directly intercepting the satellite feed from from the cable news station to the local affiliates. Normally, the affiliates would then play commercials during that scene, or something else. So while he was just looking around and not talking, there would normally have been commercials if viewed through the normal over the air or local cable provider.

You could basically intercept all the feeds without commercials.

I guess these dishes STILL work, but since everything is digital now, and also encrypted, there's not a lot that you can see. Some of those satellites are still up there, and encryption is taxing and uses bandwidth, so I'm sure you can still get stuff if you had one of those dishes.
theogre JUL 11, 08:51 PM

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Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I'll never forget because we were watching the news, and then the news anchor suddenly stopped talking... he looked around, and then started picking his nose. It was the craziest thing. He kept looking around, and then looked back at the camera, and in a few seconds, started reporting the news again. It was wild... haha...



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Originally posted by ls3mach:
Did that have anything to do with the satellite or it was just what happened while watching?

Was likely watching a "side channel" not for public viewing.
Whoever was reading the auto-clue/teleprompter, stopped by control room for X time for whatever reason, then continue maybe w/ some editing in what was read then. You usually don't hear the control room because most presenters has ear pieces.

Why? Maybe they were "previewing" a story for a live show later... May never actually aired the story or major rewrite for orders from exec's that's watching in another city or state.

Just reading a story send by fax etc often isn't same as having a presenter reading on close circuit channel to preview.

Current Example: Now an ABC news story is previewed over Internet and looks "wrong" to ABC or Disney exec's for any reason the story is edited or killed. NBC does same under Comcast so forget anything that could make PR or other problems for Comcast or goes against whatever narrative the company whats. Like you never hear Lightyear and others are tanking on ABC News.