01-30-2022, 12:32 PM
Some of you will not believe this, but in 81 you could get almost anything on a satellite dish. I watched the Super Bowl on a direct network feed that stayed with the announcers over commercial breaks. The technology of having replays with "blackboard" writing on them was also new. The announcers would rehearse with the producers working out when to pause the video during the replay. Sometimes the producer would go to camera shots of hot women in the crowd and the announcers would make comments on them.
Not only were the premium channels like HBO not scrambled, but there were sperate feeds for "east coast" and "west coast" that were the same except the west coast feed was 4 hours behind.
Not only were the premium channels like HBO not scrambled, but there were sperate feeds for "east coast" and "west coast" that were the same except the west coast feed was 4 hours behind.
