Back when i had one of those big dishes, ca 2001, NBC would feed it's backup XFL games on one of the feeds they had on GE-1(usually on the Mountain transponder) mostly for updates. They had that for NBA regional games, because they sometime used all three feeds for NBA telecasts back then.
On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 2:27:10 PM UTC-5, Jim Ellwanger wrote: > > > > > On Feb 13, 2018, at 5:30 AM, daniel anderson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Besides regional football, the morning news shows, which are taped > outside of the eastern time zone, but what if there is a special report? Do > they interrupted all feeds at once? > > From my days working in live closed-captioning 20 years ago: the > broadcast networks basically have three feeds for on-air programming > (Eastern/Central, Mountain, and Pacific), and special reports would run on > all feeds. When affiliates are not taking network programming, they're > supposed to always be monitoring the appropriate network feed for their > time zone, although much of the time, the network is able to give them a > heads-up for a special report a few minutes in advance. (NBC paid the > company I worked for to have a live closed-captioner on standby, monitoring > the Eastern feed, from 6 A.M. to midnight daily.) > > Sometimes when a special report interrupts a show, the networks will > re-feed it later, for the benefit of affiliates who might have been > recording it to broadcast later. (Such as Alaska, Hawaii, and Arizona for > much of the year.) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
