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rodin

Last reply Apr 16, 2008 · posted in DIRECTV General Forum

The "101" No Longer Authorized?

Up until late last week, I have been receiving "The 101" on my DirecTV Limited package, however, since then, it has gone to Not Authorized Call ext 721. Anyone else having this problem? It's been a freebie (or not) channel since it first came about.

On a side note, I'm very tempted to call DTV and upgrade to the Family Choice package with the Distant Networks, as it'll only end up being about $8/mo more to get a few more channels (or $5/mo w/o the actual locals?), but i'm very nervous about calling them since #1 I am receiving all of the NY/LA feeds for the big 4, and #2 my local area now has LiL capability, therefore, giving them reason to 'flag' my account as receiving the National Networks. I'm paying nearly $40/month right now to receive DirecTV Limited + Big 4 Networks:

DIRECTV LIMITED - Charge $21.99 $1.37
Network: CBS from NYC/LA - Charge $2.99 $0.19
Network: ABC from NYC/LA - Charge $2.99 $0.19
Network: FOX from NYC/LA - Charge $2.99 $0.19
Network: NBC from NYC/LA - Charge $2.99 $0.19

Anyone have any dealings with having the networks, then calling in to change your programming after your LiL's were launched?

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rodin

Apr 13, 2008

thanks for the replies so far! Not too many people on the "Limited" plan I see, lol.

I had already tried to upgrade on directv.com, but it refuses me, telling me "Your account cannot be upgraded online, please call 1800(whatever) for assitance".. I just can't believe the $3 jump per year. When I was first on that package, it was only $12.99, not too many years ago..

rodin

Apr 15, 2008

As an update, I have e-mailed and called DirecTV -- the DTV CSR who replied to my e-mail said that yes, i should indeed be authorized for Ch. 101, to try to resend auth hits and reboot box (been there done that), so further email's they told me to call Tech Support, done that, the tech I spoke with was very nice and knowledgeable, but D* did not provide him with any type of access to check my package (since its so obsolete), and he said that he *thinks* they have made some changes to who gets it, and who doesn't. He said that he (again) *thinks* that it was even removed off of the Family Choice package, but he doesn't know for sure. So I replied back to D* and told them that I'm in limbo, not knowing if i'm supposed to get it or not. They have sent it to their "Specialist Team" for further review.. i'll keep everyone updated.

Anyone who has JUST the Family Choice plan verify if 101 is working?

Hemi 6.1

Apr 15, 2008

rodin said:
As an update, I have e-mailed and called DirecTV -- the DTV CSR who replied to my e-mail said that yes, i should indeed be authorized for Ch. 101, to try to resend auth hits and reboot box (been there done that), so further email's they told me to call Tech Support, done that, the tech I spoke with was very nice and knowledgeable, but D* did not provide him with any type of access to check my package (since its so obsolete), and he said that he *thinks* they have made some changes to who gets it, and who doesn't. He said that he (again) *thinks* that it was even removed off of the Family Choice package, but he doesn't know for sure. So I replied back to D* and told them that I'm in limbo, not knowing if i'm supposed to get it or not. They have sent it to their "Specialist Team" for further review.. i'll keep everyone updated.

Anyone who has JUST the Family Choice plan verify if 101 is working?

On Directvs website the 101 is only available with the Choice package or above. Not the Family pack. DIRECTV - Package Choices

bagsy

Apr 15, 2008

rodin said:
As an update, I have e-mailed and called DirecTV -- the DTV CSR who replied to my e-mail said that yes, i should indeed be authorized for Ch. 101, to try to resend auth hits and reboot box (been there done that), so further email's they told me to call Tech Support, done that, the tech I spoke with was very nice and knowledgeable, but D* did not provide him with any type of access to check my package (since its so obsolete), and he said that he *thinks* they have made some changes to who gets it, and who doesn't. He said that he (again) *thinks* that it was even removed off of the Family Choice package, but he doesn't know for sure. So I replied back to D* and told them that I'm in limbo, not knowing if i'm supposed to get it or not. They have sent it to their "Specialist Team" for further review.. i'll keep everyone updated.

Anyone who has JUST the Family Choice plan verify if 101 is working?

Good luck dealing with them. If you read my thread on MLB Extra Innings below this, you will see that I have been dealing with MANY customer reps on the phone and almost daily e-mails. They all keep trying to resend the info and wanting me to reset the dvr (over and over). I have had absolutely no luck so far. I am getting the same 721 message that you are getting. I only have Directv during baseball season, so right now I'm paying for monthly service and stuff just to get baseball and I can't watch any of the games. If I don't get it resolved this week, I am going to try to get them to cancel everything and let me out of my contract, since I was told when I first signed up last season that I could suspend the account after the season and reactivate it for each season. I never would have agreed to service with them if I couldn't have. Good luck!

rodin

Apr 16, 2008

Welp, after many emails back and forth, they have finally told me that it is no longer available to my package.

Here's one of the emails I received:

DirecTV Limited includes only the following channels:

Bloomberg Information Television
PBS You
C-Span 1
QVC
Fit TV
RFD TV
Home Shopping Network
Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN)
HITN (requires 2 or 3 LNB dish)
Word Network
NASA TV
WorldLink TV

I'm sorry but the channel 101 has never been apart of this package.
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I further respond by saying that it HAS been a part of the package up until last week or so. The response received to that was:

"The 101 is now only available with SELECT, CHOICE, CHOICE XTRA, PLUS DVR, PLUS HD-DVR, and PREMIER packages."
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So that answers my question.. Guess i'll buzz rentention to see what they'll do for me since I'm paying $21.99 for those channels, and been an active customer since 1998.. hmmmmm

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dishstaller

Pub Member / Supporter Lifetime Supporter

Last reply 13 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

You can't even trust the cost per ounce info in grocery stores anymore

I'm surprised Walmart hasn't banned this guy from all of their stores. He has been on their CASE the past few months.

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f3zr37ekgKM?feature=share

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Jimbo

Today at 9:23 AM

dishstaller said:
I'm surprised Walmart hasn't banned this guy from all of their stores. He has been on their CASE the past few months.

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f3zr37ekgKM?feature=share

Walmart isn't the only one ...

Juan

43 minutes ago

dishstaller said:
I'm surprised Walmart hasn't banned this guy from all of their stores. He has been on their CASE the past few months.

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f3zr37ekgKM?feature=share

When walmart set a price...they weigh the container and the product...the product label only shows the weight of the product...I am sure if you brought your own plastic baggies to bring the product home you could get the cheaper price

harshness

42 minutes ago

Jimbo said:
Walmart isn't the only one ...

I've been seeing this more and more on Amazon. Sometimes it seems there is no way they could have arrived at the number.

What rankles me even more is Costco changing units of measure between similar products, so you have to convert them to compare prices.

dishstaller

13 minutes ago

Juan said:
When walmart set a price...they weigh the container and the product...

Then they are stupid. Everyone knows that the price per ounce should be the price per ounce of actual product.

Scott Greczkowski

Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU! Cutting Edge

Last reply 18 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne

Get it?

An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....

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sdfntx

Today at 9:36 AM

Love Every Little Thing About You - Gallery

gms49ers

Today at 10:40 AM

Where's My Thing? - Rush

harshness

52 minutes ago

I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing - Aerosmith

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Bobby

40 minutes ago

Good Golly, Miss Molly - Little Richard

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dishstaller

18 minutes ago

Little Miss Dangerous - Ted Nugent

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dfergie

Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU!

Last reply 34 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Gas Price Info With National Gas Temperature Map

Stumbled across this ... http://www.gaspricewatch.com/USGas_ZipSearch.asp
I found no local prices, although it did show stations at my location...
Added these to this post...
USA National Gas Temperature Map
State By State Gasoline Taxes
Gas Buddy

Ethanol Free Stations

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harshness

Sunday at 11:30 AM

I wonder if California is getting into the Winter formula.

harshness

Yesterday at 5:32 PM

harshness said:
I wonder if California is getting into the Winter formula.

It turns out I was justified in my suspicion.

Gavin Newsom somehow authorized the temporary move of the distribution date of the Winter blend to September 28th.

Foxbat

Yesterday at 8:39 PM

harshness said:
It turns out I was justified in my suspicion.

Gavin Newsom somehow authorized the temporary move of the distribution date of the Winter blend to September 28th.

Does that raise, or lower, the overall price? Our State Government has been doing everything it can to minimize the impact of the current situation and put a freeze on the State Taxes on fuel sales at the pump. That's why we're still under $4.00/gal. while across the border in Michigan it's much higher.

Bobby

Yesterday at 9:05 PM

Foxbat said:
Does that raise, or lower, the overall price? Our State Government has been doing everything it can to minimize the impact of the current situation and put a freeze on the State Taxes on fuel sales at the pump. That's why we're still under $4.00/gal. while across the border in Michigan it's much higher.

Winter blend is cheaper than Summer blend.

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Bobby

39 minutes ago

Regular$5.839
Premium$6.299
Diesel$7.999
at Costco, Rohnert Park.

harshness

34 minutes ago

Foxbat said:
Does that raise, or lower, the overall price?

Winter blend is reportedly 10-30 cents cheaper, but I would point out that prices have dropped as much as 62 cents at RP.

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reubenray

41 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish vs Streaming Apps?

Every time my Dish contract comes up I weigh the options of keeping Dish or switch to streaming. Right now I can watch/record the OTA channels vis my HDHomerun. I also can stream CBS and NBC via the Paramount+ and Peacock apps. What I would need to find is how to watch the Food Network, HGTV, Syfy, USA, Hallmark channels, Great American Family, Lifetime channels plus a few more with an app or two. My current Dish bill is $118, so I should be able to get a few apps for a lot less.

Any suggestions? I would want the best picture quality and audio quality I could get.

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Former member 209992

Last reply 42 minutes ago · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center

Site is slooooow

For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.

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Scott Greczkowski

Saturday at 3:21 PM

Ok checked it out and for some reason the web server (NGINX) tried starting before the DNS resolver fully loaded. This is why it worked when I rebooted the machine.

Thanks to ChatGPT it had me change the NGINX config to prevent this from happening again.

With that said I can't prevent the ISP from doing emergency upgrades which was the cause of all of this.

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navychop

Saturday at 3:39 PM

Nature will develop better idiots.

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TRG

Saturday at 4:19 PM

navychop said:
Nature will develop better idiots.

God help us.

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Scott Greczkowski

Monday at 11:15 AM

I guess this is what the downtime was about.

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Scott Greczkowski

42 minutes ago

Just a heads up... I just patched our PHP to close the major PHP exploit announced this morning.

Now on PHP 8.4.27 (cli) (built: Oct 20 2026 00:00:00)

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Booredatwork.com

Today at 10:52 AM · posted in BooredAtWork.COM

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Gary Toma

Staff member Pub Member / Supporter Cutting Edge

Last reply Today at 10:40 AM · posted in DIRECTV Technical Resources Forum

DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 10/14/2026

The TPN Map Excel Presents all DIRECTV Channels:

National (50-States or wide/NAT+PR beams)
Local (Local-Into-Local or narrow/Spot beams)

Additional tabs provide:

OTA the (Over-The-Air) Database
VOD (Video On_Demand) Records
Offline Records
Engr Records
Net Decoder a graphic presentation of all satellites and transponders

Domestic Satellites
@99W...... D11, D14
@101W.... D16
@103W.... D12, D15
@110W.... D5
@119W.... D8

Understanding the TPN Map

Making Sense of the TPN Map Display Conventions

DIRECTV_TPN_Map_261014.xlsx 1,874 KB

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KyL416

Yesterday at 2:37 PM

WCWW/25 CW South Bend and WBKP/5 CW Marquette are now testing on the stream server. These are both already available on satellite.

Now live in the satellite guide:
663-2 PISTONS (663-1 is likely being reserved for an overflow feed of Detroit Sportsnet, if there's a 2027 MLB season)
675 THUNDER
693 CLIPPERS

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doctor J

Today at 7:22 AM

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Oct 21 2026

Comparison of Transponder Data for Oct 21 2026 vs Oct 14 2026:

No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Changes to the use of defined transponders:

1 Transponder cleared of all Streams::
Net 10 TID 126 Beam NAT is a National Transponder on D11@99cb, TPN 3

1 Previously unused Transponder with current APG records::
Net 15 TID 15 Beam NAT is a National Transponder on D12@103ca, TPN 16

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams	National		Spot Beams
	Count	Change	Count	Change
4K	4
HD	264	2	1449
SD mpeg4	145		194
SD mpeg2	433
RB
Audio	89
Push	26
Slate	19		1

TEST Streams	National		Spot Beams
	Count	Change	Count	Change
4K
HD			1
SD mpeg4
SD mpeg2
RB
Engr Work	38	-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

NBA Updates
Weekly Analysis soon
Enjoy
DataDigesters

doctor J

Today at 7:23 AM

weekly Analysis for 10/21/2026:

Weekly_Analysis_261021.xlsx 16 KB

KyL416

Today at 7:25 AM

HAWKS, HORNETS, GRZZLIES, HEAT, MAGIC, CAVLIERS, TWOLVES, BUCKS, PACERS and SPURS channels have also been added, however they are pointing to a TV Promise slate, which says they are working with DAZN and others to strike a deal for those teams.

Some more TPN swaps

Mr Tony

Today at 10:40 AM

KyL416 said:
HAWKS, HORNETS, GRZZLIES, HEAT, MAGIC, CAVLIERS, TWOLVES, BUCKS, PACERS and SPURS channels have also been added, however they are pointing to a TV Promise slate, which says they are working with DAZN and others to strike a deal for those teams.

Some more TPN swaps

Wait…..
So even though DAZN keeps touting 'only way to see games' if you are a subscriber to Choice (like my stepdad) if an agreement is reached he can see the Wolfies on 668?
I know the Wild are in dispute and a slate is on 668-1.

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Marques Brownlee

Today at 10:32 AM · posted in Marques Brownlee