Rich Rozycki has been named Operations Manager for the News Acquisition Center for ABC News (formerly ABSAT).  Rich has been a part of the NAC for the past 18 months as an Operations Producer.  He was behind the renovation and relaunch of the News Acquisition Center this past July.  Rich actually started his career in ABSAT as an Associate Producer in 2000, and returned to ABC almost two years ago with additional production and management experience.  Rich can be reached at 212-456-7374.

On Tuesday July 29th, ABC News ABSAT becomes the News Acquisition Center.  For more information click on the link below. 

As of July 23rd, Galaxy 17 has replaced Galaxy 11 at 93 degrees West.  ABC still maintains the same transponders on Galaxy 17 as we had on Galaxy 11.

You can now download the latest satellite frequency plans for our in-house inventory.  We now have parameters for HD and SD transmissions.

Here are the parameters for the NewsOne distribution system:

Downlink Frequency: 11955.000 (Vertical)
Data Rate: 27.000
Symbol Rate: 19.532
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The forum which was run on the ABSAT website has moved. Our friend, Leland Kesler has decided to take it over. You can find the forum at http://www.sngforum.com.