Sky Angel is moving to Cleveland

[MLBurks]

I found this on tfponline.com today. And since this Sky Angel forum has been somewhat dead lately, I thought I would give us all something to read.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006, at 2:27 p.m.

By Randall Higgins
Cleveland Bureau

CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The first of Sky Angel’s television satellite dishes were raised onto the skyline here Wednesday as the TV network began moving its operations center here.

The south Cleveland field will eventually hold about 30 satellite dishes, according to Raymond LaRue, Sky Angel’s vice president of engineering and network operations.

Sky Angel is a family- and Christian-oriented television network available to subscribers through satellite television providers.

It is one of three multi-channel, high-power, direct broadcast satellite operators in the United States, delivering more than 30 TV and radio channels with Christian and family oriented program and 24-hour news.

“I don’t know anything the size of this east of the Mississippi,” Mr. LaRue said as he watched an Oklahoma installation crew, Antennae Specialists Inc., prepare to lift the first dish into place.

The corporate offices and a call center will remain in Naples, Fla.

But, Dominion Video Satellite Inc., operating under its brand name, Sky Angel, announced last spring it will move its operations center here, and is expected to hire about 25 engineers and technical operators.

E-mail Randall Higgins at rhiggins@timesfreepress.com

 

[mattb]

Yep their uplink facitility will be in Cleve Tn, it makes sense because Naples is known to get that thing called a hurricane and if a hurricane came thru and they had the uplink there everyone with skyangel would loose service for all their skyangel service channels if the hurricane nocked out services, so it makes sense to locate the uplink facilities to a more suitable location such as TN and keep corporate offices and other stuff in FL. (currently E* (dish network) handles the uplinking of skyangel channels at their uplink center)

 

[drfreeman]

this is a new sat??
will it be at 61.5?
im not sure i understand

 

[Mr Tony]

no Sky Angel is just moving their uplink to Cleveland...same satellite

 

[drfreeman]

so it does nothing for channel capacity.....
just a different place to uplink?

 

[Juan]

Huh.. I thought E* provided all uplink facilities as part of their "deall".

 

[Mr Tony]

They have to uplink it to Dish somehow

 

[smokey982]

I live in Cleveland and was able to watch the first dish being put together. It was kind of cool. I actually was not sure what it was until I saw it on the local news.