Newsfeeds, teleconferences, live from the scene remotes, transmissions from helicopters, military training exercises, sales meetings, coverage of major disasters, and the wild and wacky. It is easy to cross the line from someone who uses their dish just for regular network and cable TV, and become a Dish-head. This is the term given to the slightly obsessive viewer who spends many an hour, often past midnight, searching the heavens for things that are only found on TVRO Satellite. We have all seen Dan Rather swig his Pepsi, or famous reporters rehearsing their lines and flubbing them over and over, field reporters nervously smoking a quick cigarette before airtime, and the joking that goes on when the reporters assume that nobody is watching. This kind of thing happens daily.
Any time there is a big news story, news agencies rush into action.
Remote KU trucks and field reporters show up on the scene and the skies light up with feeds. These early feeds are often where you get angles and aspects of a news story from reporters' gossip, much of which may never get actually reported officially. By nature, most of these feeds are things like fires, explosions, hurricanes, standoffs and the like. High-speed chases as seen from the sky are just one exciting aspect of news chasing. Every now and then a major story grips the country.