Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Satellite

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 18:13:29 -0500 "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
writes:
> >DATE: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:57:13 
> >From: Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>
> >To: lglavin@lycos.com
> >Cc:boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> 
> >I don't know why you would have only been warned once >apparently 
> someone
> >dropped the ball because these outages happen a >couple of times a 
> year.  
> >The times and dates are available and I've even seen >them on the 
> wire
> >giving stations a heads up.
> >df
> 
> What I meant was that there was only one occasion when there was 
> satellite
> "blackout" and a Saturday when I made a point to listen 
> to that day's opera in full.  I did that more often in
> the past...now I do it only for new works or established
> pieces I haven't heard lately (Harbison's "Great Gatsby"; Busoni's 
> "Doktor Faust"; Bolcom's "A View
> From the Bridge").  So it's possible that in the last
> few late-winter/cusp-of-Spring periods, they've done it again.


Gotcha,  It has been years since I sat through the opera, (we used to
broadcast it on WKVT every week), but I would assume that these days,
prior to the outages affecting the broadcasts, stations and the
distributor would line up ISDN backups to prevent the broadcast from
being impaired.
df