Thread: New FTA service with 20 english channels

I would like to see This-TV to be on KU band freqs, IMHO as long they are sending in 4:2:0 MPEG-2 video format!

Originally Posted by walker69

I was reading on their site thought this might be of some interest.

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News Release: 2/8/2010

We have added the Free sports channel to our line up.

There will also be several audio sub carriers including book reading and talk radio.


hxxp://www.freedbs.org/news.html

Free sports channel..sounds cool...It would be neat to see little league baseball or Pee-wee football. High school sports? I love watching the little league world series or other such broadcasts when they're on.

What do you guys think?? (remember the guys launching this project read this thread!)

I would really love to see "This" channel on ku again as I don't have any hopes of having a c-band set-up. I'm just to old with bad health to install one of those big ugly dishes by myself and really don't have the money to hire it done. Wayne-o, I do hope you guys would consider it. Thanks.

Hello Everyone. I'm a new member here. I've been a frequent visitor to this site for a few years, and have done alot of reading, but just now decided to become a member, so that I could get in on the discussion about the FreeDBS channels proposal. I commend then on their effort with what they are attempting to do.
At their sites request for people to send in programming ideas, concerning possible channels that could be added to the lineup, I sent a few different emails with a couple of channel ideas, that I thought would be a good edition to the channel lineup, if they could work things out to get these channels added. The first Channel that I suggested was LCN out of Louisana. I think that this channel has good quality, family oriented programming. It's currently being broadcast in the clear on C Band, but would be nice if it could be added to the KU band side, because alot of people don't have C Band. The second channel that I suggested is MeTV. This is a free over the air, independant channel out of Chicago, and is also broadcast over the air in Southbend Indiana. This channel also has good quality, family oriented programming. I noticed that someone else mentioned the MeTV channel here, so I

Hello everyone. I'm a new menber here. I've been a frequent visitor of this site as a guest for a couple of years and have done alot of reading, but decided to become a member, so that I could get in on the discussion about the FreeDBS channel proposal.

I commend FreeDBS for attemting to do what they are. I'm sure that they have their work cut out for them.
At their sites request for people to email them with programming ideas and channel suggestions, I sent them a few different emails with a couple of different channel ideas.
The first channel is LCN out of Louisana. I think that this channel has good quality, family oriented programming. This channel is currently in the clear on C Band, but it would be nice if it could be added to the KU band side, because alot of people don't have C Band.
The second channel is MeTV out of Chicago, that someone else previously mentioned here. This channel also has good quality, family oriented programming. This channel is also broadcast out of Southbend Indiana. I think that these channels would be a good edition to the channel lineup
As I mentioned, I sent a few different emails around 2 weeks ago, with these channel suggestions, but have'nt received a response back from anyone. It would be nice if Wayne-O would comment on the channels. Thanks.

Originally Posted by marco916

For all you Leo Laporte fans or listeners I sent the PR people of Leo Laporte TWiT Shows a little friendly email about this Freedbs.org service going live soon and a show of his cailber would be really nice to have free in the clear on FTA. I received an email back already from Eva Laporte that she would make sure Leo reads my email.


Leo Laporte shows would be ideal for this service, we need some sort of Tech TV back in the TV airwaves. What do you guys think??

I would love to hear Leo Laporte's TWIT show on FreeDBS. Would be a GREAT addition.

Originally Posted by WallFishTV

Free sports channel..sounds cool...It would be neat to see little league baseball or Pee-wee football. High school sports? I love watching the little league world series or other such broadcasts when they're on.

What do you guys think?? (remember the guys launching this project read this thread!)

I really don't like how for the free sports channel description they list the NFL and NBA, because there is absolutely no chance they could get those games on a channel like that. I could, however, see them picking up things like University of Montana Football, events that are broadcast and advertised for Ku band viewing.

I'd also like to see them pick up some channels that are offered for free for retransmission, like Classic Arts Showcase, UWTV, UCTV, etc.

Yess in deed, his AM show is already syndicated in a few cities across the U.S, plus he has the sponsers, I really hope he looks at this FreeDBS.

Originally Posted by Stargazer

I would love to hear Leo Laporte's TWIT show on FreeDBS. Would be a GREAT addition.

Originally Posted by Iceberg

This TV is already up there on C-Band

87W is the actual feed
99W has an affiliate

I would really like it on KU.