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[C. Park Seward]

Satellite transmission rates depend on quantity discounts. ABC, for  
instance, has several transponders booked full-time. If I want to go  
up and do a test, it costs nothing since they already have the  
transponder booked.

Casual, one-time use, will be around $750 an hour (YMMV). Also, you  
have charges that depend on how much bandwidth you use. A 3 MB/sec SD  
news feed costs less than a 45 MB/sec. HD backhaul. Some birds are  
both C-band and Ku-band, analog and digital. For ESPN on ABC College  
football, we usually use an HD uplink but we have also used VyVx fiber.

Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
Cell: 818-535-2747
Home: 949-679-1870
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On Apr 28, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:

> Park and others may have current satellite transmission rates for SD  
> bandwidth to make a comparison.
> One needs to include the up and downlink costs if that's not  
> included in just the time on the bird.