Radio networks moving to digital: ABC Radio and NPR offer compressed delivery of satellite feeds.

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 1996 by Dickson, Glen

ABC Radio and NPR offer compressed delivery of satellite feeds While broadcast television networks eye digitally compressed distribution for the future, satellite-delivered radio networks already are using it on a daily basis. National Public Radio completed its conversion to MPEG layer II compressed delivery on Jan.

3 with the retirement of its outdated analog equipment. The network had been simulcasting 12 digital MUSICAM signals and 12 FCPC analog signals since April 1995. The signals are transmitted from two transponders on the Hughes Galaxy IV satellite, which NPR bought with funds from a $50 million congressional appropriation. Four hundred and eleven member stations have received the Comstream ABR-700 receivers necessary to decode the digital...

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