C-Band Satellite Surfing Part 1

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This is part one of a video I took in 1991 of me surfing around on C-Band satellite TV while in upstate NH. It includes a lot of cool backhaul, raw news feeds, wildfeeds, some foreign stuff, etc. I was always fascinated with what goes on behind the scenes and getting a window into the stuff you're "not supposed to see".

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@rustblade5021 Жыл бұрын

i remember it totally blew my mind that you could watch what was happening during commercials on live broadcasts

@gnnascarfan2410 Жыл бұрын

NASCAR fans love watching the classic races from the 1980s and 1990s that you could view on satellite feed. Then somewhere near the end of 2000 all those feeds got digitized and encrypted sadly...

@KryptonianSteel 8 жыл бұрын

Those colored cars and sounds bring back so many fond memories for me growing up. I'm so glad people post these old feeds. I grew up with an old big dish sat in isolated mountain town in the middle of nowhere. As I kid I thought it was the coolest thing ever to search for so many different show, news, cartoon and other ect. Feeds, PLACE COMMERICAL HERE. Nobody I know today gets that.

@someonenow1 11 жыл бұрын

I love this so much. Finding hidden TV gems like this is why KZfaq is so great. Good on you!

@keldonmcfarland2969 4 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one who did this. As a kid in the 80s, I was tinkering around with stuff like this. I wish I had recorded some of the stuff I stumbled on.

@MadameSomnambule 4 жыл бұрын

It's amazing what you could find on satellite back then.

@HIdeyourhearts 4 жыл бұрын

Truth.

@mulletboater 7 жыл бұрын

growing up, we had cable, or, nothing; just, local terrestrial TV. it was for the most part, very predictable and buttoned down. i am jealous of missing out on this weirdness. You got things like "trouble numbers" and, lines to production offices; as a kid, it would have been tough to avoid the temptation of prank calling.

@nx01alpha 11 жыл бұрын

Amazing.....some classic feeds from Telstar 301. I used to enjoy watching a wild feed on Transponder 9 of Thundercats when WOLD would feed it to stations. And of course, there was the Alvin and the Chipmunks feed on Warner Bros' transponder 3.

@jenniferjones4102 Жыл бұрын

Omg, I thought I was the only one about 1986 or so that did this!

@JasonFoxTheGreat 4 жыл бұрын

This brings back great memories from the 1990s.

@MarbleWhornets 3 жыл бұрын

RIP Alex!

@luisreyes1963 5 жыл бұрын

The good old days of free-range satellite TV signals. My neighbor once had a huge dish antenna in his yard before it was torn down since he had to move to another state.

@PajamaFrix 5 жыл бұрын

I loved the Jeopardy segment.

@HIdeyourhearts 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah - fun stuff!

@porphyriaboy 11 жыл бұрын

Back in the early eighties I watched this stuff ALL of the time. The feeds were better than the shows. I got to see Hunter Thompson getting ready for a Tom Snyder interview...lots of goofing-off at CNN...it was a short time to look behind the curtain of lies media is, by its very nature dependent on.

@TRJ2241987 6 жыл бұрын

This is great to see....my family had satellite from 1995-98....I'm also from NH....we used to be able to just mash buttons randomly for a minute or two on the remote and get free live PPVs...

@HIdeyourhearts 6 жыл бұрын

That's awesome. Those were some fun times, indeed.

@keithminor141 3 жыл бұрын

I remember, how complicated ordering ppv could be, especially for a kid and having to leave the satellite on a certain channel prior to broadcast or it wouldn't transmit. My dad was mad, when he came home from work and the wrestling wasn't appearing on the subscribe channel.

@looneyburgmusic 8 жыл бұрын

This brings back memories... I used to to the same thing late at night - scan every sat. looking for unlisted backhaul feeds, never know what you'd find :-)

@tdemaree 4 жыл бұрын

Dr. Gene Scott!

@HIdeyourhearts 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I love things like this too. Always on the look out for them!

@HOUSTON123A 8 жыл бұрын

I used to watch days of alives 2 weeks before It aired love c band i miss it back in 90s i used to get 90210 free it was awesome

@HIDHIFDB 8 жыл бұрын

i love the crt's wall

@HikikomoriDev 7 жыл бұрын

This is priceless. Thank you.

@IAmNotAFunguy 3 жыл бұрын

RIP Alex Trebek.

@canadianmike711 3 жыл бұрын

Rest in Peace alex

@samsticka 6 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if Alex doesn't remember doing this.

@rockypc24 8 жыл бұрын

Alex Trebek is fucking kool as hell. Good to see him still up and running.

@luisreyes1963 Жыл бұрын

Not anymore, he passed away in 2021.

@NopeNotToday434 Жыл бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 Actually, he passed away on November 8, 2020

@DuplicatedOnce 11 жыл бұрын

Amazing find!

@dobarvibe9920 6 жыл бұрын

i sometime come a cross giant satellite dishes still left in back yards always wonder what they did with it

@zoolirf 10 жыл бұрын

Friday evening CONUS bloopers of the week was possibly favorite feed you could count on.

@pschiptunes64 3 жыл бұрын

2:24 "Now entering the studio are today's contestants..."

@wx4newengland 6 жыл бұрын

Yep Jeopardy is still alive and kicking

@zanemarte9877 3 жыл бұрын

With some new guest hosts. Ken Jennings is one. Alex sadly passed away after fighting cancer for a year and a half.

@trevorpanno516 Жыл бұрын

0:12 is for TV stations such as WEWS in Cleveland, WJLA in Washington D.C., WVEC in Hampton Roads, WPLG in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, WISH in Indianapolis, WTEN in Albany, New York, WDIV in Detroit, WPTV in West Palm Beach and KNSD in San Diego; 0:15 is for WABC in New York City plus WPTZ in Burlington and 0:18 is for WLS in Chicago, KGUN in Tucson, Arizona and KSDK in St. Louis.

@DeAngeloStevens Жыл бұрын

WWL-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana WAFB in Baton Rouge, Louisiana WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania WFAA in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas

@trevorpanno516 Жыл бұрын

Also WKBW in Buffalo, New York.

@DeAngeloStevens Жыл бұрын

@@trevorpanno516 WAGA-TV (then-CBS) in Atlanta, Georgia WBRC-TV (then-ABC) in Birmingham, Alabama.

@trevorpanno516 Жыл бұрын

WLKY in Louisville, Kentucky KOMO in Seattle, Washington WHP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania KXTV in Sacramento, California WFTV in Orlando, Florida WALA in Mobile, Alabama WPRI in Providence, Rhode Island

@DeAngeloStevens Жыл бұрын

@@trevorpanno516 WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio. WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania KGO-TV in San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin KTSP-TV (now KSAZ, then-CBS) in Phoenix, Arizona KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas

@HOUSTON123A 8 жыл бұрын

When oj chased happend i didn't know because i watching nba finals on sat. It was cool used to wstch oj trail on wild feeds. Love c band sat

@anothermonday5664 3 жыл бұрын

Totally remember that day of Nicole Simpson's driver's license photo on practically every news feed, thinking who the hell is this person?

@rem145 5 жыл бұрын

Boy hope that health holds up. Amazing this show has been running since I can remember

@Maybeitsmaybelline0 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately…

@HIdeyourhearts 11 жыл бұрын

@porphyriaboy Right on. Yeah, whenever I watched C-Band, I never watched the actual programming because I spent all my time looking for wildfeeds!

@HIdeyourhearts 11 жыл бұрын

@nomadcowatbk I think signal scrambling still existed during this period on pay per view channels, HBO, etc. What's happening in these videos are raw feeds of non-pay per view channels, etc.

@jessyleppert2 5 жыл бұрын

Around the same time Classic Concentration was canceled

@HIdeyourhearts 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting.. Yeah, that may not have been the most compelling show, but it had its moments.

@nomadcowatbk 11 жыл бұрын

before they scrambled signals?

@Hubjeep 9 жыл бұрын

Is C-Band still used for TV today? Can someone with one of those big, old 8' dishes I see rusting upstate (NY) receive any programming today? Thanks

@DoctorLemon 9 жыл бұрын

Yes, check the Programming Center website. They still sell subscriptions for many channels. However, many channels are no longer available on C-band. No Discovery or Animal Planet (but you can watch Discovery Family, TLC and American Heroes), no Disney Channel (but Disney XD and Disney Jr. are still there), no ESPN or ESPN 2, only ESPN Classic. No MTV or VH1, only VH1 Classic, MTV2, MTV Hits, etc.

@Hubjeep 9 жыл бұрын

BionicCommander89 Sell subscriptions? I thought the whole point of those big dishes was free tv if you go through the effort of putting one up and use a descrambler box.

@DoctorLemon 9 жыл бұрын

Hubjeep There are still several free channels there too, including some network affiliates, ethnic programming, religious stuff, etc.

@techguy348 8 жыл бұрын

+BionicCommander89 do you know if any of the channels can be seen in HD or if a digicipher II required for those HD feeds

@loboapaixonado5675 8 жыл бұрын

+Hubjeep they still using NTSC in C band? if not, when the NTSC sat ceased to be broadcasted?

@HIdeyourhearts 11 жыл бұрын

@DuplicatedOnce thanks! I really dig this kinda stuff!

@bolver25 7 жыл бұрын

I can't believe the kind of money we'd pay for that back in the day.

@DeAngeloStevens Жыл бұрын

WBRC-TV (then-ABC now FOX) in Birmingham, Alabama 0:21 The News at Noon with Bill Bolen followed by Jeopardy! at 12:30, 0:18 NEW Episode of Jeopardy! at 4:30 followed by Channel 6 News Live at Five with Scott Richards and Brenda Ladun.

@3ccdmike 2 жыл бұрын

I had one in '91 and I used mainly for NASA SALECT TV Cable NASA sucked. I did have other interests as well like news backhauls from the gulf war for one.

@ragnakak 4 жыл бұрын

What is a trouble number?

@gameshowguy2000 8 жыл бұрын

I thought with Jeopardy!'s grid set came the bongo theme. This is definitely not the bongo theme.

@RetroWinnipeg 8 жыл бұрын

+John Lee The theme changed the next season.

@pschiptunes64 3 жыл бұрын

Season 8 began with the slow theme, and around October 1992, they pitched it back up and added bongos.

@SpecialAgentOso 6 жыл бұрын

satellite surfing is where it's at, come join the club~ uh club marioooo

@Wizardof Жыл бұрын

Randy do you Remember ANC All News Channel by Conus

@Nico93 11 жыл бұрын

so these where raw feeds from before seeing them on the actual tv programs?.

@timothyparryjropen 6 жыл бұрын

Yep. They are syndicated programs for stations to pull down & basically do whatever they want with. There were also promo rolls that they could run commercial promos with.

@wigwagstudios2474 2 жыл бұрын

Wait, so you could casually just see master reels???

@HIdeyourhearts 2 жыл бұрын

Yup! Since a lot of this kind of stuff wasn’t securely encoded/scrambled, you were able to see it if you were lucky enough to have tuned into the right satellite at the right time.

@dryzenhawk4251 2 жыл бұрын

Does C-Band still works as it is to this day?

@MadameSomnambule Жыл бұрын

Probably not since this was in the days of analogue tv. But chances are, some enthusiasts out there are probably keeping c-band satellite alive with amateur tv and such, like cb radio and shortwave radio enthusiasts now.