Fiber vs. satellite feeds

[techno935]

Didn't realize that fiber rates are more than satellite. I had a talk with the assistant news director of our TV partner with our radio station where I work. He was telling me that fiber actually costs more to send information as opposed to satellite uplinks. I had no clue!

Long story short, it costs more to send feeds on fiber as opposed to satellite.

With gas prices going up, who knows what we will see in the future. Maybe more satellite feeds being the 1st decision of the stadium/event coordinator.

 

[lumpkin666]

Didn't realize that fiber rates are more than satellite. I had a talk with the assistant news director of our TV partner with our radio station where I work. He was telling me that fiber actually costs more to send information as opposed to satellite uplinks. I had no clue!

Long story short, it costs more to send feeds on fiber as opposed to satellite.

With gas prices going up, who knows what we will see in the future. Maybe more satellite feeds being the 1st decision of the stadium/event coordinator.

I think they have grossly misstated the costs. Once the initial investment in equipment is made, there is almost no cost to the cost of fiber transmission. We laid our own fiber to our host (sure a couple million bucks), but now we have no reoccuring fees (plus we use the fiber to backbone a highspeed internet service and phone service too).

Where you are at, it may be cheaper to get occasional feeds for certain programming options from a certain provider via satellite as opposed to fiber, but it'd cost us tons more for our scenario of custom programming over leased satellite transponders (plus no bi-directional stuff would be available via satellite)