quarta-feira, 25 de março de 2015

Memories of satelliting, part 2

The installation day was sometime around the end of September 1989. Out of the 21 transponders, only twelve were used. The channels varied on an irregular basis: on a daily, weekly, monthly or annual basis. From what I recall:
1: EBC - EURECTIPHERIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION - Public TV channel from Eurectipheria. From what I know, it aired lots of movies at night. It used to be available once every month because of the wacky satellite changes. Sometimes we could get POWER STATION, a music channel, also from Eurectipheria, for two days every week.
2: TVE 1 - Not TVE Internacional and not the Spanish channel. Although it looked like the Spanish channel, it came from the Naran country of Eurcatia. The channel was permanent and the channel was a psychadelic rainbow of desire, given the fact that without the decoder of Naran signals it had a distorted colorful picture. I recall seeing what looked like a cartoon which was repeated several times in a row because of technical difficulties, but as soon as I put the card on, it looked like this:
Preservativos Ferrer: che, nunca fallas
3: ITN SRI LANKA - Used to broadcast for a few hours every day and I've seen the channel close down a few times. Timeshared every week with a signal of LONDON TOTIMORPHUS. It aired a few shows like Dallas and Arthur C. Clarke's top 20 recipes for cooked sturgeon.
4: LONDON TOTIMORPHUS - General entertainment channel from the UK. It aired a lot of Jack Hargreaves shows. At 09:00 they aired an hour of live shows from Myanmar.
5: DISCOVERY CHANNEL - The true Discovery Channel that was educational, not that despairfest that lies on that channel today. It aired documentaries about early cellular phones. It was timeshared with DISCOVERY KIDS, which aired a news bulletin read by Tom and Jerry live from their house in Dubai.
6: MTV - Yes, you already know. One of the two fixed channels.
7 - TELEVISION SOUTHEASTERNWESTERNERN - A local ITV channel from Nara. Don't know from where exactly, but it did have the TELEVISION... WITH ATTITUDE block on there.
8 - RTR 1 - Lusophone TV channel from Real. It timeshared a lot and it was exciting to see people speak European Portuguese in Nara. I remember that time where the announcer told us to watch Joelho-Alto Prejuízo Moral, where everyone was talking in a Roberto Leal accent.
Sacrilege!
9 - RADIO LIMITH TELEVISION - It later on became a full-on channel, permanently. It was special because it was the only channel not made by humans. It was made by merpeople. They did have incoherent schedules all the time.

10 - SOME TV CHANNEL FROM ORIENCE - I think that it was called TENY, with a lowercase e.
11 - TCC - Another Eurectipherian channel. Aimed at kids age 390258, especially merpeople.
12 - DILUBA - A channel which aired 24 hours of infomercials for a pseudo-miraculous product known as Diluba. It was timeshared with KRELVEC TV.

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