01-09-2023, 04:33 PM
(01-09-2023, 02:24 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: Yes Astra had more channels and the benefit that nobody had to keep the IBA happy.I think that the operation was by the IBA but that BSkY owned the Satellites -
I'm surprised by the comment that BSB had to pay for both satellites, I'm sure I saw on one of the IBA Engineering Announcements a piece about the uplink facility which certainly implied it was an IBA operation, remotely supervised from Croydon iirc
just like the BBC had to contract with Hughes for its (ill fated) government directed Satellite operaion