DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 11/06/2024

[PioneerDJ]

Bally Sports San Diego has been dropped. There's now an INFO channel on 694 directing San Diego viewers to 693 Bally Sports SoCal for the Clippers and Ducks

The feed itself still exists, but it has dropped the San Diego branding and is now a regional variation of Bally Sports SoCal

Will that DTV TPN/VPID will be repurposed for part time sports?

 

[lordodogg]

Will that DTV TPN/VPID will be repurposed for part time sports?

I believe they can either do that, keep it unused for good, or keep it temporarily unused to eventually test out a new channel

 

[PioneerDJ]

I entered a Miami ZIP code on TVPromise.com and got a message saying there are no disputes impacting your service at this time.

Short term extension reached until June 5
View: https://twitter.com/directvhelp/status/1796750935122698380?s=46

 

[nascarrocks]

Roland-Garros experience now live

A record for 387 Recipe.tv is testing with one of those weird transponderless entries. The channel is already available to stream via the app.

Targetted offers testing for Sports Pack On us, Entertainment, MGM+ for 99 cents and Gemini.

Removal of the secondary alternate for Bally San Diego

What's the offer for the sports pack??

 

[lordodogg]

A year of it on them, $179 value. Only select customers are getting it.

 

[nascarrocks]

A year of it on them, $179 value. Only select customers are getting it.

Does one need to have a certain package to get this offer??

 

[lordodogg]

Doesn't seem that way, but the channel description mentions "sports lovers" so it must be customers that used to have or currently have an out-of-market sports package.

 

[KyL416]

If you're eligible for any of the targetted offers, you'll see it in the 9750s on your guide, along with banners in the guide pointing you to it. As of Wednesday they were in test mode, so they might not be live yet:
9753 GIFT - Sports Lovers. You've been gifted Sports Pack subscription for 12 months at no cost to you. Valued at $179! Our way of saying thanks for your Loyalty
9755 SPORTS - Upgrade to the Entertainment package for a special rate and experience 24/7 sports coverage with ESPN, ESPN2 and FS1 plus more. Learn More.
9756 MGMPO - Subscribe to MGM+ for $0.99 mo. for 3 mos. Watch exclusive, critically-acclaimed original series including Billy the Kid, Godfather of Harlem, and My Life As a Rolling Stone, plus 1000s of Hollywood movies, documentaries and more - all uncut and commercia
9757 GEMINI - Elevate Your Entertainment with the Gemini Device! Enjoy our most advanced features at no-cost and free shipping.

The "on us" offers are automatically applied to eligible accounts, and you'll see it on your bill listed as something like "Sports Pack 0.00 Loyalty Gift ($179.00 value)". The rest of the offers require you to follow the on screen directions to redeem it.

 

[Tom Speer]

I updated the Satellite Transponder Tables and the DIRECTV Band Plans in the Technical Resources thread today. These are reference documents that don't change much. They have been updated eith the latest NIT data and the retirement of D9S, eliminating all Ku spot beams.

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Jun 05 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Jun 05 2024 vs May 29 2024:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	4​	​	​	​
HD​	274​	-1​	1450​	​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	201​	​
SD mpeg2​	447​	-4​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	30​	​	​	​
Slate​	20​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	43​	2​	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

Weekly Analysis soon
Not much new
Enjoy DataDigesters

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 6/05/2024:

 

[KyL416]

In addition to the previously mentioned demise of Bally Sports San Diego:

Cinema Dinamita, who will be replacing ViendoMovies on 6/15, is now testing on 9450

Updating WTLW Lima's callsign to WLMA, 2 years after the change happened

Roland-Garros cleanup

Duplicates of 235 *TASTE and 354 *CHDR are now testing with those weird transponderless entries.

9757 MLBEI On Us has been removed, 9753 Sports Pack on Us is now live, the rest of last week's new targetted offers are still in test mode


EDIT: Update for streaming/app users. The San Diego feed of Bally SoCal is available again via channel 693, the rest of Bally San Diego territory viewers in areas like El Centro, Palm Springs, Nevada and Hawaii already have their respective SoCal feeds.

 

[KyL416]

Channels 901-905 have now been repurposed for the US Open Golf experience from June 13-16

 

[PioneerDJ]

Channels 9526/9550 now showing a slate of the full Amazon NFL schedule this upcoming season

 

[nelson61]

In case you missed the latest D9S filing.

Notify going to License

 

[KyL416]

The TL/DR version, they want to keep it as a backup option if something were to happen to D16. It won't be able to deliver continuous programming at the inclined operation, but they could still use it to deliver guide data and software downloads during an outage.

 

[Tom Speer]

Thank you, Nelson61 and KylL416. I just noticed the FCC filing SAT-MOD-20240607-00126, and found that you have already discovered it. This was unexpected, I was looking for a filing to dispose of D9s to a graveyard orbit. DirecTV thinks they can keep D9S in an inclined orbit at 101 until May 31 2028. As Kyle said, It will only serve as a backup to D16 to provide guide data and software download capabilities, and only for portions of the day, due to its inclined orbit. which conserves fuel. They would have to rearrange their current methods to distribute that metadata over the D9S spotbeams, since according to the data they filed with the FCC, D9S has no National Ku beams.
The whole DIRECTV satellite infrastructure depends on metadata transmitted from 101. I can't conceive of a way that current STBs could function without Ku band DSS modulated transponders at 101.

 

[Tom Speer]

D9S could serve as a temporary band aid if T16 were to catastrophically fail. The more long term solution to such a failure would be to move D8 back to 101W. When D8's license was extended to June 2025, DirecTV said that they expected to file another extension in 2025, and expect that D8 would have a useful life through February 2034.

 

[slice1900]

Thank you, Nelson61 and KylL416. I just noticed the FCC filing SAT-MOD-20240607-00126, and found that you have already discovered it. This was unexpected, I was looking for a filing to dispose of D9s to a graveyard orbit. DirecTV thinks they can keep D9S in an inclined orbit at 101 until May 31 2028. As Kyle said, It will only serve as a backup to D16 to provide guide data and software download capabilities, and only for portions of the day, due to its inclined orbit. which conserves fuel. They would have to rearrange their current methods to distribute that metadata over the D9S spotbeams, since according to the data they filed with the FCC, D9S has no National Ku beams.
The whole DIRECTV satellite infrastructure depends on metadata transmitted from 101. I can't conceive of a way that current STBs could function withiout Ku band DSS modulated transponders at 101.

D9S has no national beams active, but it does have a bunch of national beam transponders it could light up on short notice. Of course those would be of little use unless it is possible to move it from inclined to standard orbit significantly more quickly than D8 could be moved from 119 to 101.

Seems like it would be a lot simpler to shut down the remaining MPEG2 markets on D8 and move it to 101. It could have a bunch of transponders lit up almost immediately, and be available full time not part of the day since it wouldn't operate on an inclined orbit.

I mean, are they really so intent on blocking Dish from getting those transponders at 119 that they accept this inferior backup plan?

 

[Tom Speer]

D9S has no national beams active, but it does have a bunch of national beam transponders it could light up on short notice. Of course those would be of little use unless it is possible to move it from inclined to standard orbit significantly more quickly than D8 could be moved from 119 to 101.

Seems like it would be a lot simpler to shut down the remaining MPEG2 markets on D8 and move it to 101. It could have a bunch of transponders lit up almost immediately, and be available full time not part of the day since it wouldn't operate on an inclined orbit.

I mean, are they really so intent on blocking Dish from getting those transponders at 119 that they accept this inferior backup plan?

Slice, you are right! Thank you for correcting me. I somehow forgot about the 10 National Beam transponders on D9S that were formerly in use. Early FCC filing documents hint that it could possibly deploy 13 National beam transponders on D9S. All of the transponders on D9S are shut down now, and they could preconfigure the sat for rescue service anytime. I can't speak to DIRECTV's business decisions, but the probability of a major failure on D16 is pretty low.