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Topic: Satellite broadcasts -do you have the equipment?
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Edward Havens
Jedi Master Film Handler
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Posts: 614
From: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Mar 2008
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posted 09-27-2013 04:44 PM
At my current location, literally in the shadow of the Bay Bridge, we are doing the live simulcast of the Metropolitan Opera shows from New York City, and always need two 200+ seat screens in order to meet the demand. At my previous location, in a rural area about 50 miles to the east, every Met Opera broadcast gets 12 guests. Every time. The same 12 people. Never more. Never less. Something like a Mayweather fight will sell out regardless. But for most live simulcasts or other alternative content, we'll get between 50-100 guests per show at my current location and between 0-20 for my previous. I think these alternative content shows work best in urban areas.
Ironically, though, my former location has the satellite distribution from Technicolor and Deluxe and my current location does not, even though my former location is far less busy than my current location. Maybe it has to do with testing equipment in mid-level rural areas before rolling it out worldwide to locations that might find it difficult to have content delivered to them otherwise.
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Marcel Birgelen
Film God
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From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 09-27-2013 08:06 PM
quote: Stephen Furley To those that do have the equipment, what events have you shown, and how well did they do?
Almost all venues around here regularly show opera simulcasts. They're often Broadway plays live from New York, so they tend to run at rather odd times, given the timezone offset. It has been around for a few years and still seems to sell some tickets.
Then there are some sporadic live concerts, the most popular one around here seem to be the one of André Rieu who is very popular in a certain demographic. Recently there was a "live premiere" of that stupid One Direction movie.
And then there are important live sporting events, the biggest one around here is obviously soccer, sometimes even in 3D. They don't seem to sell that many tickets though, I don't think a cinema is the best venue for those kinds of events. One independent cinema has been running Formula 1 for a while. Most of those live sporting events are pulled either from cable or public satellite services.
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