DOOL Satellite Update

Emergency update 08/30/08: We're working on it. Not much progress yet, but stay hopeful. We've been "thinking out of the box" (don't you just hate that phrase) and we've come up with a couple of "Lucy Ricardo" type schemes that just might work.

First of all, as you probably know, we received a lot of comments yesterday and I got scads of email. It is always my policy to respond to every email personally but yesterday I just couldn't get to every one what with everything going on. Please accept my apology for that and know that I read every email and followed every suggestion. I always appreciate your comments and email.

I'm also going to try to avoid mentioning names, since more than one person sent me information which helped me get on the right track. There were too many people who helped me out and I don't want to single any one out. Suffice it to say our readers are awesome. I would have to say, if you sent an email with satellite information, it probably helped in one way or another.

So here's what we know (subject to change at a moment's notice). The DOOL feed is gone from the satellite we have been watching it on for years. As we predicted, the feed has gone digital. But it's more than that. NBC has bought into a new technology which will allow it to customize the feed for individual local stations. Each local station will have equipment which allows it to separate out its feed from the rest of them. I guess this will allow the stations to customize the marketing schlock they spew. Anyway, Prevuze doesn't have any special equipment to separate out the feeds. We are continuing to look for a way to find either a master feed or one of the individual local feeds to pick up. At this point it it unclear whether we will be able to do this.

Prevuze has been very successful in its current format but unless we find a feed, our ability to continue doing what we have been doing is gone. It's just not in the cards for us to do full recaps on a show that has already aired. We have a long weekend coming up and we'll spend part of it playing with the satellite to see what we can find out there. Enjoy the weekend, and we'll check back in on Tuesday.

Prevuze.