Re: a satellite question-- exclusivity?

["Douglas J. Broda" <dougbroda@mindspring.com>]

At 08:23 AM 9/3/98 -0400, Shawn Mamros wrote:

>I think we're talking two different situations here.  In the latter
>example, ABC provides a feed to one *station* - one affiliate - per
>market.  You're not going to see channel 4 or 7 sending out ABC's
>programming in Boston.
>
>But in the former situation, it's one network providing a feed to
>*other networks*.  There are no CBC affiliates in Boston. :-)  We're
>also talking about two different media to some extent - cable (CNN) vs.
>broadcast (NBC) networks.  If the CBC has agreements with both CNN and
>NBC, that's their business.
>

My recollection -- fuzzy, I admit -- is that CBC doesn't grant its footage
exclusively. I seem to recall that BBC similarly provided feed re Diana's
funeral to more than one source. 

>And, when it comes to getting news footage of an event in Canada, are
>there any other choices besides the CBC?  That may also be a factor in
>such situations - if there's only one source for feeds or actualities in
>a given location, all the US networks, cable and broadcast, that do news
>are going to have the same footage.  Seems to be pretty common practice
>on the nightly newscasts, actually...

There is another news source in Canada.... CTV (which also operates
Canada's equivalent of Headline News, whereas CBC runs Newsworld, the rough
equivalent of CNN).

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