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<blockquote data-quote="Analoguesat" data-source="post: 1141551" data-attributes="member: 176362"><p>Errr. Sky didnt "put up any satellites". SES-Astra ( and Eutelsat in the early days) put them up. The satellites beams were designed in consultation for the broadcast needs of their customers. Narrow beams would have been specified by <strong>BBC ITV & C4</strong> because of their fta programming.</p><p></p><p>As most of Sky's programming was encrypted & historically they were on the wide beams I doubt very much Sky asked for spot beams. The only reason some of Sky's programming is on the spot beams today is Sky need to spread the programming out across satellites because of the number of transponders they use.</p><p></p><p>Give it 10-15 years & we will be crying out for the good old days as satellite delivery diminishes in importance as things move to IP delivery. THEN you will be complaining....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Analoguesat, post: 1141551, member: 176362"] Errr. Sky didnt "put up any satellites". SES-Astra ( and Eutelsat in the early days) put them up. The satellites beams were designed in consultation for the broadcast needs of their customers. Narrow beams would have been specified by [B]BBC ITV & C4[/B] because of their fta programming. As most of Sky's programming was encrypted & historically they were on the wide beams I doubt very much Sky asked for spot beams. The only reason some of Sky's programming is on the spot beams today is Sky need to spread the programming out across satellites because of the number of transponders they use. Give it 10-15 years & we will be crying out for the good old days as satellite delivery diminishes in importance as things move to IP delivery. THEN you will be complaining.... [/QUOTE]
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