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Well even though Satcom K2 was an NBC bird as I've mentioned earlier, there were plenty of newsfeeds and SNG feeds on K2 as well. CONUS Communications also had two satellite transponders on there for satellite news gathering, special events and a daily news exchange among US TV stations and...

Well Mitch Nedick finally got back to me and he told me that "News feeds were controlled at the station level and not at the network.", though only a handful of WB affiliates outside of the Tribune stations had news departments at the time like I mentioned earlier.

WAVE Louisville also showed a rebroadcast of its newscasts with subtitles on KET (which is a PBS station), which was being uplinked on GE1 Ku, transponder 6 (Same transponder as the Empire Sports Network): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8Ki2Eaw2Y

Based on a statement on Radio Discussions, "Most C-Band owners did not have a Ku-Band dish and these were not watched by many except for professionals and students in universities." The only Ku dishes that were sold to consumers back then was Primestar (GE2 Ku (W7)).

Several of the Tribune-owned WB stations also showed video stories from CNN which might further explain why they used CNN Newsource for their feeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h6OI2Kl7bs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlW3xhbIpA

KMOL San Antonio (then owned by Chris-Craft) aired a local newsmagazine in lieu of a noon newscast (4 San Antonio Living).

You could also find newsfeeds on Spacenet 4 Ku and Satcom K2 (Though it's an NBC sat) as well.

KMOL San Antonio also simulcast it's newscasts on GSTAR 4, transponder 8 (R4-8) since it was a Chris-Craft station back then and carried a secondary affiliation with UPN.

Sports feeds (MLB, NHL, NBA, NFL etc...) also showed up occasionally on Ku at the time (SBS6, T5 Ku).

KTVU's newscasts from the Bay Area were also being simulcast on KRXI Reno and KRVU-LP in Chico/Redding (which was a UPN station) at the time.

KTVU's newscasts from San Francisco were also being simulcast on KRVU-LP in Chico/Redding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kuABOloaQ4

Oh, so they did have a content-sharing deal with ESPN?

In addition to having its own version of "SportsCenter" called SportsDesk, didn't TSN also simulcast programs from ESPN as well? (Sunday NFL Countdown, NFL Primetime, NFL Prime Monday, College GameDay, Baseball Tonight and ESPNEWS)

So much of the Tribune-owned stations used CNN Newsource for their video feeds as well, CNN Newsource was on the same sat as the PBS feeds at the time (GE3 Ku (W8)).

Pardon me for reviving this thread, but from my understanding Bell ExpressVu carried both the Seattle CBS and Detroit ABC, NBC, Fox and PBS stations (KOMO 4, KING 5, KIRO 7, KCTS 9, KCPQ 13, WJBK FOX2, WDIV 4, WXYZ 7, WTVS 56) for West and Central feeds, they used WTOL 11 for CBS-C (since WWJ-TV...