Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
satellite
English answer:
périphérique, secondaire
Added to glossary by
Beno?t MARTIN
Apr 24, 2004 18:24
20 yrs ago
English term
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Native in: Polish 
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satellite (newsroom)
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Should I read "satellite" as "additional, peripheral, smaller, subordinate" or more literally as "having satellite communication" (in the context provided below)?
CONTEXT
Next, you will see a sign that says CNN Interactive, the original name for CNN.com. CNN.com began in August 1995 and quickly became one of the world’s leaders in on-line news and information. CNN.com, drawing on the newsgathering resources of CNN as well as their own news gathering capabilities, can post a story in as little as three minutes after a news lead is received and the site is continually updated, as more information becomes available. Between this smaller satellite newsroom, a larger newsroom in CNN Center that was built to house the rapidly growing website, and newsrooms in London and in Hong Kong, CNN.com is monitored and updated 24 hours a day 7 days a week and receives more than 600 Million page views per month, making it the #1 online destination for news.
CONTEXT
Next, you will see a sign that says CNN Interactive, the original name for CNN.com. CNN.com began in August 1995 and quickly became one of the world’s leaders in on-line news and information. CNN.com, drawing on the newsgathering resources of CNN as well as their own news gathering capabilities, can post a story in as little as three minutes after a news lead is received and the site is continually updated, as more information becomes available. Between this smaller satellite newsroom, a larger newsroom in CNN Center that was built to house the rapidly growing website, and newsrooms in London and in Hong Kong, CNN.com is monitored and updated 24 hours a day 7 days a week and receives more than 600 Million page views per month, making it the #1 online destination for news.
Responses
| 3 +8 | I am in favour of "peripheral" |
Beno?t MARTIN
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| 3 +2 | option 2 |
Hacene
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| 4 +1 | see comment |
Craft.Content
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| 5 | auxiliary (your option 1) |
Alexander Demyanov
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| 3 | subsidiary because of |
DGK T-I
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Responses
+8
7 mins
Beno?t MARTIN
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Native in: French
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I am in favour of "peripheral"
in French, the adjective "satellite" relates, we could say, to something connected to a MAIN device/terminal/.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "There is commonly used Polish equivalent for a „peripheral newsroom”, so I chose this answer (I hesitated between peripheral and subsidiary). Thanks to all of you!"
+2
7 mins
option 2
That the way I read it
+1
11 mins
Craft.Content
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see comment
It seems to be open to interpretation either way - but i would tilt it towards the meaning that there exists a small room that houses the servers which are connected to the satellite mesh. At the same time, this small-sized room is additional to the vast newsgathering resources of CNN.
Hth.
Hth.
2 hrs
Alexander Demyanov
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16
auxiliary (your option 1)
It can hardly be about satellite connection.
The phrase would include "satellite connected" or something to that effect.
The phrase would include "satellite connected" or something to that effect.
Peer comment(s):
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DGK T-I
: agree with Alexander's conclusion, but not with this reasoning - apart from anything else terms such as 'radio car'(car with a radio link)&'radio room(room with radio transmitters) are used,for example ~
1 day 13 hrs
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3 hrs
subsidiary because of
the following two references which seem to talk about satellite newsrooms in the same way, even though satellite (devices) seem far less likely to be involved).
(Examining examples like this (or knowing the term from working in the industry, which I don't) is the only way to decide which of the two meanings is being used, because both are perfectly sensible otherwise.)
"Branches of The Palm and Morton's steakhouse chains opened downtown, and Bob Spivak, president and chief executive of Los Angeles-based Grill Concepts......
....He grew up at his father's old Redwood Room restaurant, known in its time as a kind of satellite newsroom for editors from the neighboring Los Angeles Times."
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3190/46_37/110405231/p1/...
This could be before satellite devices became widespread (or were used at all),
and more importantly -
it's a restaurant where editors met (so satellites highly improbable!).
'The Times at Shreveport' manages to produce the newspaper, when its newsroom is unable to function (power cut when struck by a tornado)
"A systems director whose home became a satellite newsroom. Our two lead writers used her home's two PCs and two phone lines to take dictation from reporters in the field as they compiled a mainbar and sidebar. The plan was to e-mail copy to the News Star newsroom if necessary. Instead, their stories were e-mailed to The Times once the power was restored."
Apart from it being a newspaper, not a cable TV station, and so less reliant on satelite (device) transmission, there is very little equipment in the emergency, all carefully listed to show how little there is to produce a newspaper (2 PCs, e-mail and the telephone). No satelite devices.
Many other well written references (google:"satellite newsroom") talk about satellite newsrooms in the same way, but are talking about cable TV or newspaper operations where there is the same difficulty in deciding between the two (sensible) meanings. These 2 refs. sway the decision for me.
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Note added at 3 hrs 14 mins (2004-04-24 21:38:13 GMT)
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ref.2
The Times at Shreveport\'
http://www.gannett.com/go/newswatch/2000/april/nw0428-1.htm
(Examining examples like this (or knowing the term from working in the industry, which I don't) is the only way to decide which of the two meanings is being used, because both are perfectly sensible otherwise.)
"Branches of The Palm and Morton's steakhouse chains opened downtown, and Bob Spivak, president and chief executive of Los Angeles-based Grill Concepts......
....He grew up at his father's old Redwood Room restaurant, known in its time as a kind of satellite newsroom for editors from the neighboring Los Angeles Times."
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3190/46_37/110405231/p1/...
This could be before satellite devices became widespread (or were used at all),
and more importantly -
it's a restaurant where editors met (so satellites highly improbable!).
'The Times at Shreveport' manages to produce the newspaper, when its newsroom is unable to function (power cut when struck by a tornado)
"A systems director whose home became a satellite newsroom. Our two lead writers used her home's two PCs and two phone lines to take dictation from reporters in the field as they compiled a mainbar and sidebar. The plan was to e-mail copy to the News Star newsroom if necessary. Instead, their stories were e-mailed to The Times once the power was restored."
Apart from it being a newspaper, not a cable TV station, and so less reliant on satelite (device) transmission, there is very little equipment in the emergency, all carefully listed to show how little there is to produce a newspaper (2 PCs, e-mail and the telephone). No satelite devices.
Many other well written references (google:"satellite newsroom") talk about satellite newsrooms in the same way, but are talking about cable TV or newspaper operations where there is the same difficulty in deciding between the two (sensible) meanings. These 2 refs. sway the decision for me.
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Note added at 3 hrs 14 mins (2004-04-24 21:38:13 GMT)
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ref.2
The Times at Shreveport\'
http://www.gannett.com/go/newswatch/2000/april/nw0428-1.htm
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