Eric Wiltsher a Broadcast History
Many old broadcast memories courtesy of some old friends
Today I can be found on RTI
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To those of you who have asked, this may help answer some of your questions.
TESUG TV
Radio Luxembourg DJ Jonathan Miles, TESUG TV will produce 22 hours of
programming centred around satellite TV and broadcasting. The broadcast will
be direct from British Telecom's Goonhilly earth station in Cornwall and be
live to Europe via Eutelsat 2F1 and to North America via Intelsat 601.
Broadcasters contributing behind the scenes documentaries include Euronews, Eurosport, The Family Channel, Deutsche Welle TV, TV 5 Europe and NBC Super Channel. There's a special look around the World Radio Network's computerised headquarters in London with station chief Karl Miosaga and a trip inside the UK's Radio Authority.
The CAI will show you how to properly install a satellite dish and on Saturday from 1745 to 1815 direct from the Telekom Usingen uplink station, TELE Satellit's Dr. Dish (Christian Mass) and Petra Huther (TELE-satellit Chefredakteurin) along with Tim Narwath (TESUG Deutschland) will host a German half hour.
The technical side of the event is impressive with outside broadcasts from Atlanta, Washington, France, Munich and Betzdorf possibly. The viewers will get a chance to see the technical side of the operation with a look around BT's Goonhilly earth station and BT's Docklands teleport in London. The camera will even take you onto a big dish and look inside the uplink !
The technical details are :
Times : 0900 - 2000 UK/CET Saturday/Sunday 21/22 October 1994
Europe : Eutelsat 2F1, 11.617 GHz, Vertical, 6.50 MHz (50us), 7.02 MHz (Wegener
Panda)
North America : Intelsat 601, 3.820 GHz
Incoming feeds to TESUG TV : Intelsat 601, 11.135 GHz
Radio Luxembourg
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The Euronet Days :-)
Euronet was a genuine community radio station, with programmes for a wide range of minority groups and specialist interests.
Euronet's own programmes included:
- the TESUG Satellite Surgery, an information and advice programme for fans of satellite broadcasting
- Tender Trip, an "Anorak" programme for fans of offshore radio
- and even a programme about wrestling.
In addition, Euronet would often broadcast programmes from other stations and radio groups, notably:
- Gay To Gay, a gay community programme, originally broadcast on ILR Wear FM.
- Radio Dublin, the famous Dublin pirate
- Green Apple Radio, a dance and rave music station
- Laser Rock, which is understood to have had links with the offshore Laser.
It is possible that Euronet was inspired by short wave stations which relayed other programmes, such as Radio Fax and Drogheda's Radio Rainbow International. But Euronet went a step further, in that some of the programmes aired made a real effort to serve minoity groups who were often forgotten by the mainstream broadcasters. In early 1993, Radio Ability - a radio project by and for disabled people - approached Euronet, who were very sympathetic to the idea and planned to air its programmes.
Unfortunately, Euronet closed in spring 1993. This was a great shame, as Euronet were one of the few legal stations who really cared about minority interests, rather than just playing music in an attempt to grab listeners.
Replay Radio
TESUG TV from BTs Goonhilly earth station
BBCi and video phones
QEFM, the early days of satellite
Whatever view you may hold about the programming, QEFM was most certainly a pioneer in satellite radio. The station was launched as part of a project to acquire a local UK broadcast licence. It was heard on Astra 1A and soon had, according to independent research, an audience equal to the size of a medium sized UK terrestrial radio station. Source: Vintage Broadcasting
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