BRUC@MIT-ML@sri-unix.UUCP (09/03/83)
From: Robert E. Bruccoleri <BRUC @ MIT-ML> With the space shuttle making space travel routine, the coverage of space activies by the major news media is disappearing. I am really fearful that this will result in the old apathy about space among the general public which will make it easier for space budgets to be cut. There is a way to circumvent this problem, namely getting a space channel established on a major cable TV company. The NASA feed is already there, NASA has a transponder on SATCOM IIa which is used to broadcast all of NASA's video (you can't listen in on it with the usual satellite receivers since the signal is weak and requires a 30 foot dish). Has anyone ever had any experience try to convince a cable company to add a new channel? Does anybody know the addresses of the major cable companies so that I could write them a letter? By the way, when I was in Washington sightseeing in April, I asked some people at NASA headquarters about their satellite links, and the most important thing they said relating to rebroadcast is that anyone would be free to do it.
louie@cvl.UUCP (Louis A. Mamakos) (09/05/83)
I agree with the idea of a 'space' channel on a cable TV system. I once had
the pleasure to watch a shuttle launch from a NASA control room which had the
NASA video and audio feed. It was quite a difference not having to listen to
the constant babble of network newspersons who feel a need to keep words
flowing from their mouths, no matter what they say. Heck, I'd even PAY real
MONEY for such a service!
Louis A. Mamakos
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