3ABN To Add Channels

[ShaneLinder]

3ABN has announced they will be adding two or three new channels. I know one means of broadcast for them will be IPTV. Currently they have two audio and to video channels on tp 6 on AMC4.

I don't understand all this stuff. tp 6 means transponder 6? Can 3ABN add additional channels to that transponder? Is AMC4 too full already and there is no room for 3ABN to add more channels? Would the expense of adding more channels be extrodinary?

 

[Mr Tony]

I don't understand all this stuff. tp 6 means transponder 6?

correct. That only means on the AMC4 satellite, not the recievers
The satellite is split amongst 24 or 32 transponders.

Can 3ABN add additional channels to that transponder? Is AMC4 too full already and there is no room for 3ABN to add more channels?

short version-yes to 1st question, no to second. AMC4 is no where near full. IA5 (G25 at 97 West) has twice as many channels on that satellite as AMC4 does.

long answer-the transponder they use is digital. In the old days (analog) you could put one channel per transponder and that was it. Now with digital, you can put much more. 3ABN could put up to 12 channels per transponder but then you'd have major blockiness of the channel.

adding 2 or 3 channels to a transponder that has 2 video & 2 audio channels on it right now is nothing.
As an example, PAX (ION) has 12 channels in their transponder
TLN has 6 stations in their mux (mux is a techy term for a group of channels on a transponder). TLN has a cable feed, the three local stations they have, the feed for Sky Angel and a aux (backup) channel

So they could add those 2 or 3 channels with no issues and probably no loss in picture quality.

Would the expense of adding more channels be extrodinary?

nah. They already have the transponder so all they have to do is assign the new channels PIDS (that is how the receivers know what channel is what on a digital tranponders) and uplink the channel. Won't cost them much at all since the new stations will be beamed from the same uplink.

 

[Mr Tony]

by the way...do you have a link just out of curiousity?

 

[ShaneLinder]

This was announced on the same program that announced they would become a PI channel on Echostar III 61.5. It was also mentioned in an online interview on a nonofficial Adventist forum.

Urban Channel

 

[SatelliteAV]

Actually, AMC4 KU is currently near capacity. Many data services are on this bird. Space may be opening up in the next month for additional channels.

 

[ShaneLinder]

Do you know if 3ABN plans to broadcast these new channels via FTA?

 

[Mr Tony]

hope so

Always love getting new channels

 

[updatelee]

Now with digital, you can put much more. 3ABN could put up to 12 channels per transponder but then you'd have major blockiness of the channel.

like how dishnet has 18 tv channels on tp7 119.0w ? its amazing people pay for quality like that, Ive seen analog cable with better quality.

 

[Mr Tony]

like how dishnet has 18 tv channels on tp7 119.0w ?

huh?
Dish uses spotbeams on TP 1,3,5,7,9 on 119 but each spotbeam has a max of 12-13 channels if its full. I know of spotbeams that have 6 channels on them

But there isnt 18 video channels on a transponder/spotbeam.

edit: if you're talking about that one on lyngsat, there is 13. The other 5 are mirrors of the PBS station. Its just one channel remapped 4-5 times

 

[updatelee]

I was looking on lyngsat.

I scanned 119 and Im finding many tp's that have 12+ tv channels on them, quite a few. I assume they all work, I cant see my dreambox scanning them in if they werent transmitting video.

 

[Mr Tony]

correct. It does log that many chanenls. But in some cases there are multiple channels but only one stream. Some states have an agreement with the "state" PBS (Georgia is an example...Nebraska is another...Iowa is another) that Dish carries one channel (the mothership) but they map it to different channels for each DMA in Georgia. Its not 6 channels uplinked. Its just one.

The national PBS on TP8 has about 15 of them. Dish does this so if you live in X DMA and your locals are between 7500-7505 the PBS is in that group and not at say 8599 (where the mothership channel is)

 

[updatelee]

I didnt realize that, makes it looks like they got way to many channels on the same tp.

 

[voomvoom]

that Dish carries one channel (the mothership) but they map it to different channels for each DMA in Georgia. Its not 6 channels uplinked. Its just one.

That's not so hard to do in Georgia. GPB has 9 (I think) stations across the state and they all show the exact same programming with ever so often station ID's (logo's) being the difference in them. However, Atlanta Board of Education owns their very own PBS station and it's programming is slightly different, but it has nothing to do with what you're talking about.

Al