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Has anyone here on this forum own a C-band dish? Tell your memories here!

but you know id like to see a anchor get upset about a runover or development in a game that makes them mad- i know i have never seen it but it must make those anchors upset when they think their going on but someone hits a home run to tie the game or someone hits a three pointer at the buzzer to tie a game it would be quite funny
 
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Dude, stop it. Please. This isn't your personal blog and these reminisces of yours are going off-topic.
 
first big dish memory:cbs NFL games on T301 and T302 NBC games on K1 and K2 went with NBC mosty becaue NFC in those days was "three downs and a cloud of dust"
 
I bought a 10 foot Winegard dish in 2013 for $75. I put it up about 14 months ago and have never run out of things to watch. Here is my set up. I have had the Fortec KU dish for 10 years.

90 cm Fortec w/DG380 and Avenger PLL LNBF
Amiko Mini HD SE & Openbox Z5 HD
Titanium ASC1 Polarity Actuator Controller & C1 PLL LNBF
10 FT Winegard Pinnacle w/Venture 36" Maxie Heavy Duty Ball Screw Actuator
 
My great-grandma used to have a C-Band dish and we used to watch TV off of there, including most of the major networks. I remember at least once watching a football game on KCNC Denver (AFC game, so had to be 1998 or later). I also remember watching Prevue/TV Guide with the listing of all the channels available on C-Band complete with channel numbers
 
A 96-year-old man on my street has a big dish. The cable doesn't go as far as his house. There's a little dish next to it so he apparently he switched.

But he doesn't live there any more. He can't be by himself.

I should ask him about his TV watching.
 
I used to flip around between NCAA Tournament games on SBS-6. One time I kept flipping between the DePaul-St. Johns game that was in Chicago and the Pittsburgh-Oklahoma game that was in Tucson, I think it was in 1987. Every time one game had a timeout/commercial break, I'd switch to the other game. I did the same thing with the Duke-Indiana and Iowa-Oklahoma games during the regional semis. NFL games was the same thing too. Even college football too.
Syndicated wild feeds were great too. I used to see for example American Gladiators before it aired on the weekend. same thing with Wheel Of Fortune too.
 
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I knew a few who had those big dishes, What I remember was the shopping channels like JC Penney, Sears, Macys and even Kohls had their own channels, I also remember tons of stations on there as well. Some of these were remembered such as KTLA, WWOR and The Denver Six but far more weren't like Indy's WTTV, Norfolk/Virginia Beach's WYAH, DC's WTTG & WDCA, Baltimore's WBFF and WJZ, Pittsburgh's WPGH, Buffalo's WIVB and WKBW and NBC Kansas. I also remember KTWO out of Casper, Wyoming and a channel out of Cleveland, Ohio too.
 
I remember watching the Broncos games on the Denver stations back then. The interesting part was in those days, the Denver stations never showed the early game if the Broncos were home, but these days it's allowed if the Broncos home game is part of a doubleheader. the CBS one would show a game *before* the Broncos game, and the NBC one would show the Broncos game.
 
The only NFL backhauls i could really find was NBC's, since CBS was using Videocipher IB at the time, although their NBA and NCAA games were not done that way.
 
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Super Bowl LIhad 2 feeds on 107.3 9 (Canada) and 2 feeds on 2 Mexico satellite channels. It was also shown on the Missouri Fox station that broadcasts in the clear on 99 W.
 
I didn't realize how old this thread was, but I'll elaborate on my previous answer. As I said I never owned one but got to play with one working at a TV station, especially late night when nothing was being aired on that system-which we usually used for program feeds and sports. CBS network programming was different system. I even would pick up the satellite TV guide at the store just for fun.
There was more that was unscrambled than one might think. The satellite feeds, designed for recording by local stations for later airing, were in the clear (Oprah, Sally, Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy,you name it. You also could see what I presume to be feeds from the various production companies to network master control. (I saw the last episode of "Cheers" come down the morning of it's scheduled airing...Northern Exposure came down at 4am Sunday morning Eastern. NBC Eastern and Mountain were in the clear (Pacific was a "spot beam" that Easterners/Midwesterners couldn't see.). Some Mexican signals were there.

There were 874 shopping channels, and Shepard's Chapel ran 24/7. It's probably still running. One of the more interesting things I saw was Sam Donaldson, just sitting at a desk. For a half hour or so. Interesting and geeky stuff.
 
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I didn't realize how old this thread was, but I'll elaborate on my previous answer. As I said I never owned one but got to play with one working at a TV station, especially late night when nothing was being aired on that system-which we usually used for program feeds and sports. CBS network programming was different system. I even would pick up the satellite TV guide at the store just for fun.
There was more that was unscrambled than one might think. The satellite feeds, designed for recording by local stations for later airing, were in the clear (Oprah, Sally, Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy,you name it. You also could see what I presume to be feeds from the various production companies to network master control. (I saw the last episode of "Cheers" come down the morning of it's scheduled airing...Northern Exposure came down at 4am Sunday morning Eastern. NBC Eastern and Mountain were in the clear (Pacific was a "spot beam" that Easterners/Midwesterners couldn't see.). Some Mexican signals were there.

There were 874 shopping channels, and Shepard's Chapel ran 24/7. It's probably still running. One of the more interesting things I saw was Sam Donaldson, just sitting at a desk. For a half hour or so. Interesting and geeky stuff.
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I remember flipping between NCAA Tournament games back when CBS had exclusivity from round 2 onward, but NCAA Productions would produce the first round games, expect for CBS having a late night game.
I remember the feeds from the various production companies to network master control too. I saw China Beach before it aired on ABC, i saw NFL games form NBC mostly, ABC had college football, and there were a ton of syndicated feeds too. I remember one golf event when NBC switched to Nightly News for ET/CT, but kept it on for the west coast. I watched the backhaul on that one.
 
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That Satellite guide was called "Satellite TV Week" and ran from the early '80s up to around 2000. I grabbed up nine issues in an eBay lot last year from 1985-86. Very interesting listings, includes most of the Anik channels, the superstations/cable networks/pay-TV on G1, and the PBS feeds. I don't believe they listed for T301/302 feeds. There used to be a KFMB feed on one of those Morelos satellites in the 1980s.
That's where most of the syndicated/network feeds were years ago - Telstar 301/302, 401/402, and Galaxy 4 before it failed in 1998. T6 also had feeds in the early 2000s along with some on Westar 5.
The Missouri Fox is KRBK-49 Springfield, MO. They have been ITC for a few years now on 99W.

NBC East was on C1-8, in the clear for years and years. This was the same sat where the Denver Six were located. I have an Unsolved Mysteries episode taped off C1-8 with the NBC color bars before the show. Some of the local breaks were black screen but others contained PSAs.

My former local KOMO Seattle used to be on Spacenet 4 as part of PT24 West (with KNBC/KPIX), on S4 tp8. FoxNet was on S4-10, it had been on C1-19 and G3-2.
 
I remember the NBC feed on C1-8 for years. They had the network feed there, so if WYFF/4 aired a ACC basketball game, i could still watch St. Elsewhere for example, and i do remember the color bars and the blank screens/PSA's. Syndicated shows had that too.
The syndicated/network feeds years ago - Telstar 301/302, 401/402, and Galaxy 4 were always a favorite of mine too. AFC football on SBS-6/K1/K2. ABC used Telstar 301/302 for college football, bowling, Wide World of Sports events, and the Olympics. The PBS feeds were great too.
 
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