![]() The transmission chain is designed with an automatic one-for-one redundancy on digital feeds and one-for-five redundancy on the analog feeds. The uplink transmission facility contains four 9-meter transmit dishes and six 4-meter receive dishes. Wiring of the technical plant was on a severely constricted six-month timeframe in order to reach the on-air target date. The selected companies were Omnibus Systems (automation), Pinnacle Systems (servers), Sony (archive), Pinzone Engineering (uplink) and Beck Associates (systems integration). Over a period of several months, numerous systems and equipment proposals were reviewed and evaluated. To facilitate this upgrade, a study of the operation and processes was made, system requirements determined, and RFPs were prepared and sent to automation, server and data archive vendors, as well as systems integration companies. In conjunction with the move to a new facility, a decision was made to upgrade the on-air operation from a semi-automated tape-based playout system to a fully automated, digital video server-based playback and transmission center. A total of 36 feeds originate from the facility. Five channels are uplinked as analog signals to the backyard C-band dish market. ![]() All of these channels have east coast and west coast timezone feeds, which are distributed nationwide on three satellites. Starz broadcasts 13 channels: Starz, Encore, Starz Theater, Black Starz, Starz Cinema, Starz Family, Westerns, Mystery, Action, Love Stories, True Stories, WAM and MoviePlex.
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