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From: pubs-lab@utcs.UUCP (Taras Pryjma)
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Subject: Re: Stargate and Usenet
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Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 23:00:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  1 23:00:50 1985
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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