Re: Backhauls?

[Shawn Roth <ufpdev!shawnr@uunet.uu.net>]

Thanks for the info...

Shawn

Originally from J. Mark Estepp:
> 
> At 08:42 AM 8/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Everyone,
> >
> >  Please excuse my stupidity, but what exactly is a backhaul?  I don't own a
> >  DSS or a Big Dish, I just have regular old cable.
> >
> >  Thanks in advance for the info.
> >
> >Shawn
> >
> 
> A backhaul is the signal being sent from wherever the game is being played,
> up to the satellite, where it is then beamed to the folks paying for the
> service. 
> 
> Back in the good ole days, almost everything being beamed up the satellites
> was in the clear, since few people had the BUD technology to "steal" the
> signal.  Movies, sports, "wild feeds" of all kinds of tv shows, adult
> programming.
> 
> When you picked up the backhaul, you got no commercials, since they were
> inserted locally after the signal was beamed from the satellite to the
> subscribers.  During the commercial breaks, the announcers would comment on
> how they REALLY felt about the game, sometimes being very candid.
> 
> I remember that the former producer of Celtics away games ("Sweet" Lou
> Shuman, I believe they called him) would have the cameraman pan the audience
> during the timeouts, when the paying audience was watching some commercial.
> He would have him zoom, and I mean ZOOM, in on some beautiful girl, or at
> least certain parts of a beautiful girl.  The color guy (can't remember his
> name) would say, "their you go, satellite viewers!"
> 
> It was definitely not PC...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Estepp				704 262 3111
> Appalachian State University			704 265 8696 (fax)
> Esteppjm@AppState.edu
> 
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