Remote station host providing virtual community participation in a remote event

A method comprising:

• establishing, by a real-time service provider subsystem and broadband access subsystem, a virtual community of subscribers to a shared event wherein the virtual community is remote from the shared event and the step of establishing comprises coupling a plurality of subscriber devices to a broadband data network, whereby the plurality of subscriber devices concurrently access communication channels, and whereby the plurality of subscriber devices are each respectively coupled to one or more of a plurality of dedicated remotely controllable cameras located at the shared event, during a predetermined period;
• adding a station host to the virtual community;
• and
• granting access to the shared event by the station host to a standby viewer device different from the subscribers, wherein the standby viewer device's access to the shared event is concurrent with the plurality of subscriber devices' access to the event, and wherein the standby viewer device has different access rights than the access rights of the plurality of subscriber devices.