DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 11/06/2024

[KyL416]

Last week 671-3 was repurposed for a potential NBA feed if Diamond defaults on their payments during the season.

 

[lordodogg]

ah yes they did, but you'd think they'd remove both HD and SD versions of the Bally Extra feed it replaced, weird...

 

[KyL416]

They can always put it back to Bally Sports Extra 3 HD or add any other part time feed to the guide in the rare chance they actually need it for an overflow. But between the MLS leaving for Apple TV and Diamond giving up the Raycom ACC games, a lot of the placeholders for the "Extra/Plus" feeds are no longer needed.

 

[Tom Speer]

My need for the RSN's went away when the ACC announced that the raycom gemes would now be carried on the CW. I just wish my local CW station was in HD. The CW app is no help, if there is a local station, it just streams the local station (SD in this case).

 

[lordodogg]

Do you have an antenna at your NC home, if so, does it pick up WNCT? They carry CW on their D2 sub-channel in HD.

 

[Tom Speer]

Do you have an antenna at your NC home, if so, does it pick up WNCT? They carry CW on their D2 sub-channel in HD.

Yes, I can watch it OTA. Yeah, it's 720P, but it sure doesn't look it. The DirecTV mpeg4 feed of that signal is just as good.

 

[Tom Speer]

Thank you for pointing out that this is "HD". It is better than SD. When I was originally evaluating it, the program content was some locally produced nonsense, and tonights movie looks better. I think they are compressing the video a lot in order to fit in to their OTA digital tranmitter bandwidth, along with a 1080i CBS channel and two 480i channels.

 

[dishrich]

Remaps of CW Plus were added to channel 60 in Butte, Great Falls and Missoula as they no longer have an OTA affiliate. (Depending on what happens with WADL, it might be added to Detroit too in the next few weeks)

Guess they won't have to worry about this in Detroit:

WMYD Detroit Will Become Market’s The CW Station

WADL dropped its affiliation in late October

www.nexttv.com

 

[lordodogg]

Those special NBA test channels might be gone soon:

Bally Sports & The NBA Reach A One Year Deal To Avoid Chaos | Cord Cutters News

Today, Bally Sports and the NBA announced a deal that will keep NBA games on the RSNs. This deal will avoid what could have resulted in multiple NBA teams leaving Bally Sports midseason. The interesting part of this deal, though, is it is only for one season. “Our newly-signed agreements with...

cordcuttersnews.com

 

[Tom Speer]

Do you have an antenna at your NC home, if so, does it pick up WNCT? They carry CW on their D2 sub-channel in HD.

I re-enabled my LCC, and comparing the OTA signal to the DirecTV feed of CW on my local WNCT-D2 channel, the OTA signal is 720P and the satellite feed is lower resolution, so the SD label in the Guide is correct. With the LCC enabled, I can record the ACC basketball games on The CW if I need to. Problem solved. I just have to remember to disconnect the LCC from the antenna and rescan before we move north next spring, Otherwise I keep seeing the North Carolina OTA channels in my guide, when the LCC is in North Carolina (It's worthless in the Adirondacks, no OTA available.)

 

[lordodogg]

CINE 175’s next movie is on 11/18 at 6a ET. The Suns info channel will probably be gone then.

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Nov 08 2023

Comparison of Transponder Data for Nov 08 2023 vs Nov 01 2023:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	3​	-1​	​	​
HD​	275​	​	1447​	​
SD mpeg4​	140​	​	197​	​
SD mpeg2​	403​	1​	440​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	31​	​	​	​
Slate​	21​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	​	​
SD mpeg2​	4​	4​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	54​	-3​	2​	​
​

The PID count Excel workbook provides much more count detail.

Newly updated tables of Streams on each transponder are available in the DataDigesters TPN Grids

More details of changes in individual channels will follow in the Weekly Analysis
and Gary Toma's Domestic TPN Map Excel files

Santa Channel in *TEST
A few usual shifts
Not much else
Weekly Analysis soon
DataDigesters

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 11/08/2023:

 

[KyL416]

CINE 178-181 are in test mode using spare space on 101 TPNs 8 and 17

The extra ESPN+ for Business channels have been added (one of which is incorrectly labeled "EPSN+")

Targetted offer channels now live: 9751 GIFT (Center Ice on Us), 9758 DTV PP (Protection Plan), 9759 GEMINI

Some more LIL rebalancing in Idaho Falls and Montgomery

WADL Detroit reverted back to MNT instead of CW/MNT (for now...)

Removal of Pelicans prep channel and 9950 PTNW

Missing linear channels test slate on 9804, which will likely be used for those markets that will be losing their SD LIL channels soon.

 

[PioneerDJ]

The extra ESPN+ for Business channels have been added (one of which is incorrectly labeled "EPSN+")

while the one with the typo is not yet fixed, they did copy and paste the labels/notes into 9521-9525

 

[lordodogg]

Noticed PrimeTNF 9526 and 9550 are gone, looks like they are now “isolated” to business customers guides.

 

[PioneerDJ]

Noticed PrimeTNF 9526 and 9550 are gone, looks like they are now “isolated” to business customers guides.

They probably must be grayed out, one of my bar’s boxes is a big old H23 and the grayed out channels are not there on that guide

 

[lordodogg]

Nope. I don’t have CIG enabled and they still aren’t there.

 

[PioneerDJ]

Nope. I don’t have CIG enabled and they still aren’t there.

Then the Sunday ticket channels on your guide should also be gone

 

[lordodogg]

They always have been.