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Intelsat assures radio stations return of live feeds
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Posted on Jan 23 2005
By MARCONI CALINDAS
REPORTER
KRNM doesn’t need to purchase new equipment, after Intelsat assured the radio station it would be transmitting them live feeds soon.
The radio station’s manager Carl Pogue said an official from Intelsat told him late Friday night that they would be shooting them live feeds as soon as the satellite company makes the necessary adjustments on its system.
Intelsat told Pogue that they would be rerouting to KRNM, and affiliate radio station KPRG in Guam, live broadcasts from its new “180” signal.
“Intelsat said that they will try to accommodate our request by sending us the feed that we can accept with our existing equipment,” he said.
Intelsat said it would try to provide KRNM and KPRG a space on another satellite under the same format that two used to be getting.
Pogue was relieved knowing that the radio station will no longer have to purchase new equipment to restore their broadcasts and receive the satellite feed from the alternative “180” signal.
“That’s encouraging, the fact that they responded that way. But we’re not sure yet,” he said.
But one problem that could emerge with the new signal, according to Pogue, is that the new satellite has heavy traffic due to numerous “switchings” from Intelsat’s clients, which may have also been redirected because of the problems with the original satellite.
KRNM staff worked the entire day on Saturday to receive feedback to its normal format, but Pogue was disappointed that their receiver still did not get any live feeds from Intelsat’s new signal.
He also said that his engineers, who arrived late yesterday afternoon from Guam to resolve the myriad of problems, will continue to look for other ways to hook up with Intelsat’s new signal at its alternative satellite and restart KRNM and KPRG’s live broadcast programming.
Intelsat’s $73-million, Bermuda-registered Intelsat IS-804 satellite, which KRNM and KPRG depend on for getting live broadcasts of 90 percent of its programs, moved out of alignment on Jan. 15 and was reportedly lost.
