On CNN ch. 202 now showing local Albuquerque car ads!

[N5XZS]

How they get the bandwith for local ads on CONUS beam maybe on Ka band with HD?

We got over 250 + or- DMA TV Markets so do they it by Ka band or Internet download?

Looks like everything going Star Trek modes now days!

 

[gdstout]

Do you have a DVR?

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[raoul5788]

Directv has been inserting local ads into national feeds for a while. As gdstout alluded to, you need a dvr for it to happen.

 

[jcrandall]

Directv has the ability to record commercials to their portion of the drive on HD-DVRs/Genies (not sure about SD-DVRs).

They then can insert these ads on channels that their agreement allows them to insert commercials sold by Directv. This is very common on cable but done at the head-end.

That said, DirecTV could do way more with this if they get aggressive in selling commercials, but to date it doesn't seem to be big yet.

I'm not sure if the commercials are delivered to the DVR by internet or satellite.

 

[dishrich]

E* has been doing the very same thing on (at least some) of their DVR's for awhile now...

 

[ejb1980]

I see local Boston ads a lot of the national channels since I "moved" there.

 

[N5XZS]

Yes I do have a HD DVR. But interesting to how it work.

 

[Mr Tony]

We got over 250 + or- DMA TV Markets

210 DMA's

 

[Mr Tony]

I see local Boston ads a lot of the national channels since I "moved" there.

I noticed the same thing when I was "moved" I seemed to get more Mankato commercials than Minneapolis (even though Mankato was considered SV for where I was)

 

[ejb1980]

I noticed the same thing when I was "moved" I seemed to get more Mankato commercials than Minneapolis (even though Mankato was considered SV for where I was)

It caught me off guard the first time, even though I had seen it on this forum. The commercials are 1080i, even on ESPN, causing the screen to flash.

 

[skysurfer]

the albuquerque ads have been around for a few months now - started with campaign ads and now progressed to car and new windows for the house, etc. ads. Good news is that they can still be skipped over just like normal ads.

The albuquerque advertisers should get their ad money back - the audio sounds POTS-telephone quality for some reason, so when you are watching something live or are too lazy to hit the skip 30 button, the ads really stand out as cruddy-sounding compared to the high quality audio from the tv program or national tv ads.