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Need Specific Out Of Market Locals for D/R site

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I think I already know the answer, but thought I'd ask.

My Houston-based (major energy company) employer has a disaster-recovery (D/R) hot site in Nashville.

During the recent hurricane IKE we transferred corporate operations to Nashville and sent roughly 50 employees up there, who wound up staying all week (due to the serious damage to Houston's infrastructure).

It took only 6 or 7 employees watching streaming internet video of one of Houston's local TV stations (KPRC/NBC) to bring our limited network connection in Nashville to its knees. KPRC, like all of the Houston locals were carrying 24 hour a day expanded coverage of the happenings here and the aftermath.

Since these 50 people had a vested interest, I can understand them wanting to be able to watch a Houston Local station from Nashville. I don't need all the Houston stations. One would be fine, preferably KPRC.

What are our options?

Yes, I realize that the Houston locals are on spot beams and no longer on the national beam.

So again I ask, what are our options? Is it possible to temporarily lease some bandwidth from D* and have them give us a dedicated feed into Nashville, ie like a private business channel? (The Nashville NBC affiliate is willing to grant us a special use waiver). We just need to figure out how to get the signal. Naturally HD preferred, but we'd take what we can get.

Thoughts?
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DirecTV was carrying one of the Houston locals (check out this link: http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=138061 for more specifics) on channel 361 for a short time (while the station was doing live 24/7 news coverage of IKE).

They did something similar for New Orleans during Gustav.
fluffybear said:
DirecTV was carrying one of the Houston locals (check out this link: http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=138061 for more specifics) on channel 361 for a short time (while the station was doing live 24/7 news coverage of IKE).

They did something similar for New Orleans during Gustav.
THANKS!!!!
That's exactly what I was looking for, although it would have been nice if they could have continued it beyond Monday. KPRC continued 24-hour coverage throughout all last week (we got a little tired of it finally) - seems though I do recall KPRC started carrying commercials mid-week or so.
Two of the Houston stations were also uplinking their station to other locals carrying their coverage using KU band sats, which could be picked up anywhere in the country with a 36" dish and a $100 receiver. That coverage included backfeeds and raw footage to the stations, as well as Weather channel and CNN reporters. At the height of the storm, I had a choice of 5 feeds on one satellite... No telling how many were up on the others...There are several used by stations for satellite live trucks.
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