Clear Channel Satellite Offers Flyaway Package

by Jennifer McNally on July 14, 2008

Clear Channel Satellite is promoting the XtremeSat XSM-7504 audio flyaway program delivery package.

Mobile applications include remotes, emergency services, Webcasting and trade shows. Fixed uses include remote offices, digital signage and disaster recovery.

The package can auto-seek its target satellite via an enhanced controller using an on-board GPS-enabled logic driver, which controls the unit’s azimuth and elevation location drives.

On power-up, the system auto-seeks the target satellite autonomously and locks in the user’s accompanying audio codec. A promotions staffer, the company says, could in a pinch get a remote on the air via satellite without engineering’s intervention or assistance.

The system folds down into a stowage position and is capable of being shipped via air freight or truck. It was shown during this convention season packaged in an optional ATA-rated and weatherproof shipping container. The system requires no on-site licensed operator.

The package exhibited at the spring NAB is priced at $27,500; leasing options are available.

Clear Channel Satellite is based in Englewood, Colo., near Denver.

Music of Your Life chooses Clear Channel Satellite as their satellite provider

by Jennifer McNally on March 04, 2008

Clear Channel Satellite has added Music of Your Life on the X-Digital Platform. Music of Your Life is a unique blend music that will uplift your spirit and will give you hours of listening enjoyment. Music of Your Life plays some of the great artists such as Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, Ella Fitzgerald, ABBA.

Music of Your Life hit the radio landscape in 1978, created and developed by music executive Al Ham. In 1996, Kerry Fink, and his wife, Tammy Fink, joined with Al Ham and Music Of Your Life caught on like wildfire, catching the ear of millions of listeners hungry to hear 20th century classics.

At the approach of the millennium, Music Of Your Life has built upon these classics, moving beyond “Big Band” to the present Adult Pop Standards (“APS”) – providing fresh material for those who have always loved the form, and reaching a new generation coming home to the timeless sound.

XtremeSat Tested By Avaya

by Monty Dent on February 11, 2008

The Clear Channel Satellite XtremeSat product was tested in great detail at the Avaya Solution & Interoperability Test Lab. The XtremeSat was tested with the Avaya Mobile Communication System (MCS), which is a compact, highly mobile full featured communication system designed for rapid deployment in disaster stricken or remote areas where other systems may have been damage or do not exist. Avaya MCS can be connected to traditional and no-traditional networking facilities in a variety of ways. Using the internet access provided by XtremeSat, an IPsec VPN tunnel can be established between Avaya Mobile Communication System and a main site to provide secure voice communication between the sites.

The VPN application test consisted of the Avaya VPN remote phones, Avaya C363T-PWR Converged Stackable Switch and the EMS 2000 Series satellite interactive terminal

Conclusion: The Clear Channel Satellite XtremeSat passed compliance testing.

2,000 foot TV Tower falls

by Monty Dent on January 14, 2008

Clear Channel Satellite was able to help KATV in Little Rock, AR work towards getting back on the air after a 2,000 foot television tower collapsed.

A 2,000-foot television tower that was once the second-tallest structure in the world collapsed Friday while workers were restringing guy wires, knocking two Little Rock-area television stations off the air.

One person suffered a minor injury when the tower collapsed in a field about 20 miles south of Little Rock, said Randy Dixon, new director at ABC affiliate KATV.