[BC] Satellite Channels for rent

[Bowen, Jonathan]

Some questions for my own situation: 

We currently uplink from here on C band and NPR rebroadcasts that for us on KU because most of our translators are on KU. We pay a lot each month for NPR to do this for us. We are looking into a better solution for this. 

Also we can uplink on KU from here but don't due to the bad weather in Pensacola. 

We have considered setting up our own facility with the equipment to just rebroadcast this. 
	What area of the country would have the best weather to give us the max amount of up time on our KU band?

We considered putting it at one of our translator sites or just purchasing a small amount of land and just dropping 2 dishes and some equipment there with a local tech on call to take care of problems. Does anyone have any thoughts on this setup?

Thanks

Jonathan Bowen
RBN/WPCS Field Engineer
-----Original Message-----

NPR has good deals but their only NPR stations have their dishes, so you might
have to install dishes at stations. This might be impossible.

Another possibility is Digital Music Exchange  (DMX) and Muzak. Both use small
dishes (think DirecTv/Dish Network). The bad news is that both are also in
chapter 11.

You should also consider an audio over IP solution such as Barix or others.
You can get low latency BRTP distribution from Streamguys for a fraction of
what satellite would cost. Under 50 locations I believe it's the way to go-50
and over the advantage shifts gradually to satellite. Even Clear Channel
Satellite uses Bsrix for part of their program distribution.

-D