Thanks for posting this Richard. WXEL here in West Palm Beach Florida carries one half hour of English world news from NHK World Monday-Friday on subchannel 42.4. That is relayed by our local Comcast service on channel 202. Some of the NHK presenters are handicapped by their very pronounced Japanese accents but the stories are usually interesting because they cover well the goings on in Southeast Asia especially with China and North Korea from a Japanese perspective.
Back around the early 1970's I had the opportunity to participate with KCET chief engineer Bud Untiedt in a demonstration for the Corporation For Public Broadcasting of live satellite relay of a regularly-scheduled, live TV program from Washington to the West Coast of the USA. The objective of the experiment was to prove that satellite relay could have as good a reliability and quality as the AT&T terrestrial microwave relay system for nationwide delivery of broadcast-quality color TV. Over several months the reliability was proven. On the final day of the demonstration, the live PBS program "The Advocates" was fed from the NASA Goldstone California receiving site via a Western Union microwave link to the Hollywood studio of KCET. Here the received video was judged by KCET personnel to exceed the quality of the AT&T signal. They then fed the signal up the West Coast microwave link that PBS used for delayed programming to all its affiliates in California, Oregon, and Washington states. The stations were polled at the end of the broadcast and all reported excellent quality on the satellite feed. Of course today we all know that a single satellite hop is inherently better than a signal that has been relayed over hundreds of microwave hops to cross the continent. But in the early 1970's the broadcasters had their doubts. The rest is history. I think KCET dropped its PBS affiliation in the last couple of years due to a dispute over fees charged by PBS. Glad to see they are still working to expand their coverage by making the world a bit smaller. Joe Buch > On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 1:51 PM, Richard Cuff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey everyone - long time no see... here's the program lineup on > Japan's NHK World TV... > > RC > > Shared link: > http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/31/5611522/nhk-world-tv-channel-brings-the.html > _______________________________________________ > Internetradio mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL > shown above. > _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
