Directv/ATT vs Local CBS station... Question

jorbill2or wrote:
Funny I saw all the local commercials that the local station has on. I have both sat and broadcast and they are almost identical except the broadcast was a better picture . not to say there aren’t some sat ones added. I doubt the sat is contracting the local car dealer and lawyer . Locals are paid buy # of viewing eyes. More eyes more money.

When the commercials are inserted is not always a constant.. Just like local broadcast stations, sat and cable operators have a "sales force" that "sells" commercial time slots.. Time slots may or may not always get bought. But I CAN assure you, it DOES happen..

In the old days much of it was done manually in a editing room, now days most will be done automatically via computer.

I worked for a huge company many yrs ago that owned sat uplink stations all around the US.. In fact, that company when I worked for them OWNED many CBS stations.. Ever here of "Group W", yeah, that was owned by Westinghouse and I worked at Westinghouse.. I used to have to duplicate and send the copies of video material to the nearest uplink facility they owned so they could uplink the video..

Now days, Westinghouse is nothing but a shell of the company I had worked for..

Spent many yrs working with a C band installer, installing and repairing "Big dishes". I actually used a C Band dish up until 2007 when the last program provider stopped handling non commercial customers.

Big dish is still alive for commercial customers, pretty much everything you see on Cable or mini dishes is actually uplinked via C Band, the cable co and mini dish Cos downlink the programs, edit then uplink to their own Ku band sats.. Cable Cos modulate and push out on cable.. Granted with Internet some has shifted to streaming but C band is still in heavy daily use.