[Husker] Satellite Audio Etc

[Mike Jaixen]

Does Fox Sports Net package all of their regional networks at their LA facility?  Or do they beam it via satellite to the regional affiliates?  I know there are other regional networks (ROOT Rocky Mountain and Comcast Sports) that pick up the FSN games, so I wonder if they get have three or four bounces (once to LA, once to the regional network, and once to your provider)


 
Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com


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 From: Gary Fead <gwfead at cox.net>
To: Husker List <husker at tssi.com> 
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 3:28 PM
Subject: [Husker] Satellite Audio Etc
 
OK since the question has been asked a few times here's the answer…..

Husker Radio Network is fed via ISDN/Fiber to the network control center (in Lincoln) where it is "packaged" and sent to an uplink facility (which at one time was and may still be in Topeka, Kansas). From there it is uplinked to your favorite Husker Sports Network affiliate for broadcast. This entails exactly one uplink from end to end.

Television broadcasts (via ESPN/ABC/FOX/BTN) are uplinked directly from the stadium to the network control center of the network handling the telecast where they are "packaged" and uplinked once again to your local station if it's an ABC or FOX over the air broadcast. Over the air broadcasts involve 2 uplinks (there is a slight delay when you have send the signal up 23,000 miles twice). If it's a game on BTN, ESPN or Fox Sports Net it goes this way - the game is uplinked directly from the stadium to the BTN (Chicago), ESPN (Bristol, CT) or Fox Sports Net (Los Angeles) production facility where it is "packaged" and uplinked to your local cable company. If you get your TV from DISH or DirecTV they have to uplink it a third time from their uplink facility to get it to you. 

So to sum up the radio broadcast has one uplink end to end, over the air and cable TV broadcasts have two uplinks end to end. Satellite viewers have three uplinks end to end. Sending a signal up three times before it finally gets to your receiver/TV at home will add several seconds of delay. 

Hope that answer the question and wasn't too confusing. Also just a side note when I use the word "packaged" I'm referring to inserting national commercials, promos and the like.

Gary Fead
Omaha
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