Public Interest Channels at 110° Channel Channel Name 9400 The Research Channel 9401 HITN (Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network) 9402 PBS You 9403 BYU TV (Brigham Young University) 9404 University of Washigton TV (UWTV) 9405 (CCN) Ceased Operations 3/15/03 9406 StarNet 9407 Colours TV 9408 Daystar 9410 WorldLink TV

Public Interest Channels at 119° Channel Channel Name 210 Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) 213 NASA - TV 260 Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) 261 Eternal Word TV Network (EWTN) 262 Angel One 9409 Rural Farm Broadcasting (RFD TV) 9411 Northern Arizona University House 9412 University of California TV (UCTV) 9415 Free Speech Television

Public Interest Channels at 61.5° and 148°

Channel	Channel Name
9405	Health TV
9413	Educating Everyone
9414	FamilyNet
9416	Good Samaritan Network
9417	SafetyNet
9418	Panhandle Area Educational Consortium

Originally posted by Bryan27 on DBSTalk.Com These are the rules regarding PI carriage in layman terms:

1. 4-7% of the channel capacity must be reserved for PI channels (The key here is "reserved", other channels may use the reserved space until a PI channel becomes available).
2. If the percentage of reserved space results in a fraction the number of PI channels are rounded up (IE: if 4% is 2.35 channels the provider needs to carry 3 channels. Basically there is 1 PI channel for every 25 channels).
3. The percentage is determined by the average of the channels offered in the previous year with channel counts taken once per quarter (IE: the number of PI channels in 2003 are based on 2002 channel counts).
4. PI channels must not be charged more than the wholesale charge for carrying the channel.
5. Only 1 channel from an entity may be carried as PI unless all PI channels in the country have been given an oppurtunity to be carried (this will never occur as there are more PI channels than space).
6. PI channels may not be edited by the provider nor may the provider have any interest in the channel (IE: the provider can't own all or a part of the channel).
7. PI channels are to be treated like all other channels in the line-up and are to be given the same treatment (IE: channels are to be given the same amount of bandwidth as other channels).
8. A variety of channels with a variety of viewpoints must be carried (IE: you have to carry more than just religious PI channels).
9. The PI channels must be offered to every subscriber free regardless of package (E* intreprets subscribers as those with AT-50 or higher, anyone with less isn't a subscriber, but a customer. D* makes their PI channels available to everyone regardless of programming level).
10. To qualify as a PI channel the channel must be non-commercial and owned by a non-profit or government entity.