bellutta@irst.it (Paolo Bellutta) (01/24/91)
Ed Hopper pointed out that CNN is available almost everywhere, and that it is possible that the CNN transponder is not scrambled in that part of the earth. I live in northern Italy, and a 90cm dish is enough to receive CNN which is on Intelsat VAF11, (27.5 W) 11.155 Ghz Vertical Polarization. There are rumors that CNN is going to have a transponder on the new Astra 1B DBS satellite (19 E). I do have a tvro but a buiding is blocking the view of the Intelsat satellite. In Iraq, being so eastbound, Saddam my need a larger dish (4-10m) but anyway at least 50-70% of the news programs rely on CNN (which, sometimes, it is just dubbed) for first hand news. On one of the reports from Amman, CNN reporters were on the roof of the hotel and in the background it was clearly visible the fly-away station.