Xref: utzoo sci.space:10067 sci.space.shuttle:2572 sci.astro:3656 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!csd4!mcp2 From: mcp2@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Michael C Polinske) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle,sci.astro Subject: Re: Moronic TV news coverage Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 89 18:03:55 GMT References: <9802@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <704@m3.mfci.UUCP> <518@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> Sender: news@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 35 In-reply-to: tim@opoxsrv.i.intel.com.ogc.edu's message of 15 Mar 89 02:25:05 GMT In article <518@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> tim@opoxsrv.i.intel.com.ogc.edu writes: In Portland, OR (Rogers Cable TV) there were two channels that had pure NASA feeds (NASA Select?). These were a local cable access channel and (more importantly) CSPAN-II, one of the congressional channels. I know that the local channel was set to start the NASA feeds at 12:30 am pacific time. I don't know when CSPAN-II started their coverage, but there was NO ancher person overdubbing, other than the official NASA lady (which you would get even if you had a direct downlink from NASA Select. Check to see if your local cable has CSPAN-II (I watched it over the local channel because the local had a jumpy picture). I don't know about the lauch coverage, but I do know that a public access channel on our cable system has a continuous coverage of the shuttle mission. They have done this one time before also but I do not believe they do this for secret missions. In the corner of the screen it shows something like this: SCHOOL CABLE TV NASA [LIVE] It shows this even when I know that I saw it early. so the cable system must put it in. I was wondering what network carried such continuous, uncommentated (word?) coverage of a space flight. Tim Forsyth Intel Corporation OEM Platforms Operation Hillsboro, Oregon tim@opoxsrv.i.intel.com -- |snail mail: Michael Charles Polinske |email: mcp2@csd4.milw.wisc.edu | | 5730 North 68th St. | | | Milwaukee, WI 53218 |Telephone: 1+(414) 461-3717 |