Can stations with an XDS PRO-4 receiver receive all of the channels on the satellite, or are the audio feeds encoded? That is, assume that a station airs a program that is carried on the satellite and it wants to preview another show on the same satellite for a possible affiliation, is that possible? Obviously I have no experience with this system.
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XDS PRO-4 Question
- Thread starter Mike Phillips
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You can only hear what you are authorized for.
Think you ment to say "can't".
A side note. If you haven't gotten a new XDS from ESPN (seperate from any other provider including Cumulus/Citadel/ABC) then you will not get ESPN after November 26th. They are going to start using their own uplink. Not ABC/Cumulus.
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Now here's the worry. I have two Cumulus XDS pro 4 receivers. Both labeled Cumulus One is general purpuse do all machine, the other is dedicated to ESPN and Deportes (Spanish ESPN). The boys at 456-5000 assure me that I'm all set for the changoever and need to do nothing. Much as I trust Rollie and crew, I worry that the changeover will not be clean. I guess this means that the Cumulus machine that is picking up the ESPN stuff ONLY, now will change hands and be an ESPN machine. Hopefully they can download any changes in transponder etc. remotly. One can only hope.
Lucky my furball doesn't like to step on the keyboard.
We got a dedicated ESPN RX maybe last spring(?) that was configured with only 3 active audio ports. One main channel, one "rec" port for special programming, and one port to run on streaming whenever ESPN doesn't want us to stream them. Like network commercials and some MLB.
They say it'll switch with only a short glitch.
But you saw what the MAX people went through.
Anyone remember when AP sent a bad download and hosed up all their recievers?
They actually had to swap them all out.
We got a dedicated ESPN RX maybe last spring(?) that was configured with only 3 active audio ports. One main channel, one "rec" port for special programming, and one port to run on streaming whenever ESPN doesn't want us to stream them. Like network commercials and some MLB.
They say it'll switch with only a short glitch.
But you saw what the MAX people went through.
Anyone remember when AP sent a bad download and hosed up all their recievers?
They actually had to swap them all out.
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