Re: Iraqi TV

[Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com>]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Sean Smyth wrote:


> wondering if these might really be networks. Wouldn't bigger outlying cities
> like Basra need at least relays of some sort to transmit the programming to
> those peoples?

Correct.  It's probably the same as CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN, WB-11, etc.

As far as I know, TV stations need relay stations after X amount of 
distance.  I'm sure the mountains in the area would be partly responsible 
for that.

I guess in this case "station" is synonymous with "network," especially if
the individual relays don't have slots for local or regional variations
like the national stations here in the USA; but it's very probable that 
whatever is transmitted on -- say -- Channels 5 and 9 in Baghdad are 
retransmitted on Channels 42 and 22 in Basra, for instance.  

This is what the BBC-TV does.  The numbers you set your TV set's dial to
in London are not the same if you are watching TV in 
Hereford, for instance.  The UK uses the UHF band for OTA terrestial TV 
exclusively, by the way.

I personally use the terms station/network interchangeably when referring
to Channels:  2 CBS, 4 NBC, 5 Fox, 7 ABC, 9 UPN, 11 WB, 31 Pax TV, 41
Univision, 47 Telemundo and 68 Telefutura.

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Sven