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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Live-Aid (some random thoughts)
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 20:37:59 EDT
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>   For those who are interested in the technical feat pulled off last
>weekend,
>there is a very interesting article in the two weeks ago Broadcasting. 
>No fewer than 13 satellites (including backhaul and interim link) feeds
>were used, from all the major common carriers, Intelsat, and BrightStar.
>Didn't anyone watch the feeds downlinked at Etam, W. Va; Rosman NC, and
>all those good places (from across the pond) or the Empty-V backhaul feeds
>(which were multiple) assumed to be free of the dreck which corrupted 
>American television?

According to the _Wash. Post_, the Bowie/Jagger video came about because
what they were originally going do didn't work.  They were going to have
Jagger in Philly and Bowie at Wembley sing a duet via satellite!
Unfortunately, they had forgotten that it's 22,000 miles out there; the
4-second propagation delay through space and all that circuitry was just too
hard to deal with.  So they settled for a video.

Charley Wingate  umcp-cs!mangoe