CBS has had to do a major shift of their feeds to affiliates over the last few months due to the failure of the satellite virtually all of their program and news feeds were on. The amount of bandwidth that was available on their original bird was not available on others (due to several factors) and they had to do some creative work to keep all their feeds getting to the affiliates. It was either utilize the limited bandwidth available, or split the feeds across two birds and force every affiliate to put up a brand new satellite dish within a matter of weeks, not something feasible by any means.
On a side note, I won't see ANY CBS programming in HD, since our local affiliate, KSWT, still has NO HD capability, and according to the GM, they MIGHT by early next year.
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CBS has had to do a major shift of their feeds to affiliates over the last few months due to the failure of the satellite virtually all of their program and news feeds were on. The amount of bandwidth that was available on their original bird was not available on others (due to several factors) and they had to do some creative work to keep all their feeds getting to the affiliates. It was either utilize the limited bandwidth available, or split the feeds across two birds and force every affiliate to put up a brand new satellite dish within a matter of weeks, not something feasible by any means.
On a side note, I won't see ANY CBS programming in HD, since our local affiliate, KSWT, still has NO HD capability, and according to the GM, they MIGHT by early next year.