WWDC's Keynote to be Broadcast via Satellite

[MacRumors]

MacMinute reports (http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/17/wwdc) that WWDC's Keynote will be broadcast by Satellite. The keynote begins at 10am PST.

Coordinates:
Ku-band Analog
Telstar 5/Transponder: 25 K
Orbital Slot: 97 degrees west
Uplink Frequency: 14444 MHz
Downlink Frequency: 12144 MHz
Polarity: Vertical down
Audio subcarriers: 6.2 and 6.8

C-band Analog
Galaxy 3C/Transponder 3C
Orbital Slot: 95 degrees west
Uplink Frequency: 5985 MHz
Downlink Frequency: 3760 MHz
Polarity: Horizontal down
Audio subcarriers: 6.2 and 6.8

[macmunch]

Can I recive that from europe yes or ?

should be no prob ?

[sweetaction]

Come on Apple! Give me a way to watch satellite feeds with OSX! ;-)

[arvidvdb]

unfortunately, we don't all have dishes on our roofs...
webcast...please:(

[RHutch]

Someone with satellite will update us, won't they? PLEASE!!!

[HashPipeK]

I will be tuning in the campus sat dishes to watch this puppy heh. Its nice having access to master control mwahaha

[yossele]

Last time the satelite was on the web as well, i think nbc or something that came up the last minute, no worries there will probably be a webcast.

[Freg3000]

This is the exact same thing that happened with the launch of the Music Store. There probably will be a crappy life stream from MSNBC or something, with an Apple stream afterwards. :(

At least we'll have something.

[ipiloot]

If there event is broadcast via satellite, there will usually be webcast too.

[fef]

I have a directTV dish... does someone knows in which channel this thing can be viewed?

[Philippe]

I read somewhere that they won't be a webcast.

However I am sure it can be seen in Europe.
The Germain techies will be seeing it by satellite.
We need the the European satellite details.

Phil

[marazanvose]

Sorry, you can't see the keynote with DirecTV dishes, you have to have one of those big dishes.

[nawk]

OK,

Anyone going to be showing the broadcast in Vancouver, BC. I'll bring the coffee and some Timbits :)

Serioiusly .. perhaps if there is enough interest amoung Mac Heads we could split the costs of renting a small facility to watch.

Ten bucks a piece for Steve's show, a double-double and a Maple Dip.

Its not like you are going to be working .. your just going to be MADLY clicking refresh on your brower window all Monday morning. Just take the morning off :)

Email if you are interested!

[gotohamish]

I have SKY Digital through Digital Satellite here in the UK - can I pick this up any way?

[MetallicPenguin]

I doubt it, is that like a TV service or what? If not you might.

I hope there's a webcast, but either way I won't be there to find out. So I am hoping there's a stream afterwards.

[jettredmont]

Originally posted by gotohamish
I have SKY Digital through Digital Satellite here in the UK - can I pick this up any way?

Folks, "Digital" satellite subscribers (myself included) will NOT be receiving this (barring unannounced rebroadcasts). Digital satellite TV works on a single-satellite system (ie, your dish is always pointed to one satellite ... yes, there is more than one satellite up there but you can't just point your dish at any arbitrary satellite position and expect to get anything) and only with compressed digital streams.

This is being broadcast on the older analog satellite system. That's those big 6-foot-wide (2m for the rest of you) dishes you see in some peoples' back yards and on the top of buildings. This is 100% incompatible with all digital satellite equipment.

The following services are a quick sample of digital services that will not be seeing the keynote (unless MSNBC or CNN or someone decides to broadcast it):

DirecTV
Dish Networks
SKY Digital
Any Digital or Analog Cable
Over-The-Air Antenna

If you have any of these, this article does not apply to you. If you don't have a honkin' huge white round thing in your yard or caving in your roof, this does not apply to you.

End Public Service Announcement.

[form]

seems like this information is coming in about 5 days early...

[mdntcallr]

Hmmmm....

for those millions of Directv (what i have), Echostar subscribers, and even cable households, wouldnt it be great if the speech was covered in full, live on TechTV? MSNBC and CNN would breakaway to other news and make it shorter.


I seem to remember in years past some keynotes being covered live by TechTV, but none from the WWDC.

Anybody have any contacts there to ask about this?

[NNO-Stephen]

come on, someone needs to webcast it fromt he satelite stream, or broadcast it on TV would be better, I could watch 36" keynote :) ahh that would be nice...

maybe we should all e-mail someone at MSNBC to get them to do it again... but this time in quicktime format :D

[JohnHummel]

So just to clarify - they're still planning on showing the broadcast at the Apple Stores, correct? I have to know so I can see how badly my wife will kill me if I pick up a 970 Powerbook right then. (Hm - I guess as long as I can put the old one on eBay, maybe I won't get <i>to</i> dead....)

[Sonofhaig]

Why wouldn't Apple want to webcast this? :confused:
They've been hyping this show. They must know we want to
see Panther/New Hardware...

Am I missing the bigger picture?

[liudger]

On the last apple happening (itunes4) there was a good broadcast on internet. It took me 5 minutes to find it:) So don't worry. There will be a broadcast for this bigger hapening too. Just have a good look around and you wil surely find a stream. There is a german site http://www.mac-tv.de/ that will broadcast it. But it's asking a small fee.

[HashPipeK]

the rumors are it will be on tech tv but i have heard no confirmations yet

[NNO-Stephen]

Originally posted by HashPipeK
the rumors are it will be on tech tv but i have heard no confirmations yet

well crap, we dont get Tech TV on cable here. Cox Communications sucks at getting channels...

[Mudbug]

Originally posted by HashPipeK
the rumors are it will be on tech tv but i have heard no confirmations yet

if it is, i'm goin' home and watchin!!!

[whoami]

lets get a confirmation from tech tv on this one! i want to watch too!

[Kid Red]

Also, the satellite stream is AUDIO only and in GERMAN.

So unless TechTV gets it we are all hitting the refresh button next week.

[jazzman45]

it seems like tech tv might is pretty involved in the rumor scene. they just showed macrumors.com on 'screensavers' and talked about the 970...hmmm.

[gotohamish]

Originally posted by jettredmont
Folks, "Digital" satellite subscribers (myself included) will NOT be receiving this (barring unannounced rebroadcasts). Digital satellite TV works on a single-satellite system (ie, your dish is always pointed to one satellite ... yes, there is more than one satellite up there but you can't just point your dish at any arbitrary satellite position and expect to get anything) and only with compressed digital streams.

This is being broadcast on the older analog satellite system. That's those big 6-foot-wide (2m for the rest of you) dishes you see in some peoples' back yards and on the top of buildings. This is 100% incompatible with all digital satellite equipment.

The following services are a quick sample of digital services that will not be seeing the keynote (unless MSNBC or CNN or someone decides to broadcast it):

DirecTV
Dish Networks
SKY Digital
Any Digital or Analog Cable
Over-The-Air Antenna

If you have any of these, this article does not apply to you. If you don't have a honkin' huge white round thing in your yard or caving in your roof, this does not apply to you.

End Public Service Announcement.

Thanks! I'm glad I've learnt something today! It's been one of those days! :o

[JoeRadar]

Originally posted by Macrumors
The keynote begins at 10am PST.

Not that it matters too much, but shouldn't that be 10am PDT (not PST)?

For places that do not go on daylight savings time, if they tune in at 10am PST (UTC-8), they will miss the first hour of the keynote. PDT is UTC-7.

[Cabrewolf]

I look forward to someone recieving the broadcast and streaming it for the rest of us. please send me the address.;)

Wolf
jimheffner@mac.com

[Veldek]

Originally posted by Kid Red
Also, the satellite stream is AUDIO only and in GERMAN.

Of course, this stream will not be in German. How should this work? They are sending an audio stream of a translation??? No, no, no, it's the official audio stream in English.

[dbenesch]

1. There are a lot of developers who paid a lot of money to go to WWDC. Part of that package is the keynote. To say to these people "well, now everyone will get to see the keynote" would tick a lot of people off. Yeah, they go to WWDC for other reasons, but it still wouldn't be fair.

2. Does anybody honestly believe that sales will suffer because it's not webcast? We have all heard how Apple is trying to play down announcements (i.e. no MacWorld). No other company announces product with so much fanfair. The product will be announced, and everyone will hear about it on the news or read about it on a website. A webcast is nice, but it's probably not a priority for Apple.

[rDLr]

Originally posted by NNO-Stephen
well crap, we dont get Tech TV on cable here. Cox Communications sucks at getting channels...


I get Tech TV on Cox Communications here in California. It is on the digital cable tier.

[zoozx]

Originally posted by dbenesch
1. There are a lot of developers who paid a lot of money to go to WWDC. Part of that package is the keynote. To say to these people "well, now everyone will get to see the keynote" would tick a lot of people off. Yeah, they go to WWDC for other reasons, but it still wouldn't be fair.

2. Does anybody honestly believe that sales will suffer because it's not webcast? We have all heard how Apple is trying to play down announcements (i.e. no MacWorld). No other company announces product with so much fanfair. The product will be announced, and everyone will hear about it on the news or read about it on a website. A webcast is nice, but it's probably not a priority for Apple.

The above has Nothing to do with apple's decision to stream this or not! Absolutely none.

[arogge]

Originally posted by JoeRadar
Not that it matters too much, but shouldn't that be 10am PDT (not PST)?

I'm glad that somebody else saw that too. Yes, it's 1700 hours UTC. This is what happens when you misuse local time zones instead of using the standard UTC - you can easily get confused about which time zones are where and you might miss something important like the Steve Jobs keynote!

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224

[dbenesch]

Originally posted by zoozx
The above has Nothing what so ever with apple decision to stream this or not! Absolutely none.

Why do you say that? What is *your* logic behind Apple's decision not to webcast?

Give us a reason, not just bad grammar.

[zoozx]

Ouch bad grammer, heaven forbid. That happens when you split your brain and talk on the phone and type at the same time.
Developers give a rats ass about seeing that stuff "first", we don't care. The keynote is not what WWDC is about for us.

[dbenesch]

Originally posted by zoozx
Ouch bad grammer, heaven forbid. That happens when you split your brain and talk on the phone and type at the same time.
Developers give a rats ass about seeing that stuff "first", we don't care. The keynote is not what WWDC is about for us.

So I'll ask the same question again. Why do *you* think Apple's not webcasting the keynote.

[NNO-Stephen]

Originally posted by rDLr
I get Tech TV on Cox Communications here in California. It is on the digital cable tier.

yeah but i dont got digital cable... it would suck to get 4 recievers because we got cable in 4 rooms at my house.

[kf4wvk]

Originally posted by Mudbug
if it is, i'm goin' home and watchin!!!

Tivo it. :)

[iJon]

tech tv wont be broadcasting it. they havet done it for the pas year and a half. because everytime they did they would always bash the appple products and didnt look good for apple. thats why they have done the mpeg4 webcast from now on.

iJon

[patiofire]

What about all the Apple stores who will be showing the keynote in their theaters?

BTW: this is my first post on here, though i have been a spymacer for some time by the same name

[mstecker]

Do US "sports bars" tend to have this type of receiver anymore? If so, maybe we can get enough people together in some cities to have some mac happy hours at a sports bar willing to tune in. I'm sure there's nothing competing on the air at 10am-1pm.

[jaykk]

I didn't realize that it is such a big event that so many universities are tuning in tho this. From macnn :

The University of Wisconsin is hosting Steve Jobs' keynote at WWDC 2003 live in an auditorium at the Pyle Center in Madison, WI. The School of Information at the University of Michigan will also be hosting live feed of Steve Jobs' keynote from WWDC. The event is open to the public and will take place 1:00-3:00 PM EST in room #311 West Hall (550 East University, Ann Arbor, MI). Several Apple Stores will also carry a live feed of the keynote, although it is unclear whether it will be available at all stores. Other locations hosting the keynote include:


SIGMAC, the Macintosh User Group at Case Western Reserve University, has arranged for a live feed of the satellite broadcast on the CWRU campus, Baker building, room L5 (lower level).
University of Central Florida (no details offered)
Ohio University (Athens, OH) will also offer the Apple WWDC satellite broadcast on its campus cable TV network CATVision. Viewers anywhere on campus can tune to channel 64 to see the event live.


Link (http://www.macnn.com/news/19796)

[bellis1]

"Live WWDC Coverage
This coming Monday, MacMerc will be giving the Mac web live coverage of the WWDC Keynote. Starting a few minutes before 10AM PST and lasting throughout the entire speech, we'll be updating nearly every minute. Please come join us. If you live in the Tampa, FL area, come out to the Apple store and say hi."

Not sure if that is a broadcast or just updates. You can decide for yourself MacMerc.com

[raeingoth]

Originally posted by whoami
lets get a confirmation from tech tv on this one! i want to watch too!

Don't know if anyone posted about this or not, but here is the reply I got from TechTV:


We have been unable to get permission to broadcast the keynote but will of
course cover the event.

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Subject: Question for Other


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1. Feedback
Do you have any plans to broadcast the Apple WWDC Keynote on Monday? There are a lot of people that would appreciate this and it looks as if it will be a big announcement session. Thank you!

[iJon]

i think im more surprised that people are still asking if tech tv is gonna do it, i mean come on, they havent done it in forever and we all know why, its hardly a mac station and they hardly ever made the keynotes look good.

iJon