Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!pubs-lab From: pubs-lab@utcs.UUCP (Taras Pryjma) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Stargate and Usenet Message-ID: <312@utcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 23:00:50 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.312 Posted: Tue Jan 1 23:00:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 23:17:10 EST Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 26 I think Lauren seems to think that the footprint of a satellite is alot more pronounced than it really is. Most Canadians know that they can pick alot more US cable material than Lauren gives them credit for. To make my point, TVRO has been a hot topic in Canadian politics for the last five years. Just because you design something to give good reception for a particular area, does not mean that the fringe reception is not that great. If the desire is there, then people or companies in the fringe areas will build ground stations to pick off that signal. Which is just the point, it might be technically possible to extend the signal away from North America to some extent. The footprint of the satellite is still of great importance, but that does not preclude, depending on where the satellite is sitting in the sky, that people in far off places could receive this signal if they wanted to cotribute to a fairly large dish ground station, even aa a joint effort .... they could. I do not know if Lauren knows this but WTBS is owned and operated by Turner Broadcasting, which last I heard of was also operating CNN. WTBS is not distributed in Canada very widely, however CNN-1 is. Therefore would there be any possibility that the Stargate signal could be piggybacked onto the CNN-1 signal instead of WTBS???? Another point to make, is that in many companies it might be easier to justify a pickup of CNN-1 rather than WTBS from cable. Taras Pryjma