11/14/2009 6:30am - Uplink Activity Report - 2 changes

[DigiDish Uplink Report]

SatelliteGuys.US DishNetwork Uplink Activity Report - 11/14/2009 6:30am - 2 changes

Uplink Comparison Range: 11/14/2009 06:10A - 11/14/2009 06:30A

Channel Moves:
5440 - ALT10 [MPEG2 SD] moved from EchoStar11 110W TP 24 ConUS beam to EchoStar7 119W TP 18 ConUS beam (A) (H)
5441 - ALT10 [MPEG2 SD] moved from EchoStar7 119W TP 12 ConUS beam to EchoStar11 110W TP 24 ConUS beam (A) (H)

Channels in the system: 6627
(A) = Available to subscribers
(NA) = Not Available
(H) = Hidden from non-subscribers

 

[LER]

Filter Fodder?

 

[Mr Tony]

yep

 

[sundude90]

Filter Fodder?

What is filter fodder? Why did they do a little switch like that for?

 

[LER]

We filter out the daily sports moves. This one qualifies, and needs to be added to the filter.

 

[Mr Tony]

What is filter fodder? Why did they do a little switch like that for?

The Big10 alt channels and RSN's in HD are only used on specific TP's and are shared.

So in the case of the Big10 alt (pr overflow) channels when they need to be used, they get remapped. When there is no game, you get the "Dish logo" screen which they use one feed and remap it a lot

If you check thelist, channels 5800-5814 (hidden to subscribers but will show scrambled on a FTA receiver) are used for non RSN games.....games they just can't take a feed from the Regional Sports Networks and show.
Examples that show up on this channel are
-big 10 overflow games (which are remapped to 5440-5444)
-Canadian network feeds or OTA feeds (for NBA LP & NHL CI...rempped to the 600's)
-RSN's that dont have a "permanent" home....like FSN Wisconsin, FSN Indiana, FSN Utah, FSN Houston etc...Those games are shown on the alternate channels...they show in the guide between 444-479 are remaps of those chanenls in the 5800 area.

Since channels move daily and are of no use to 99.9% of the folks looking at the reports, they are filtered out and dont normally show on a report (but will show in thelist)

 

[harshness]

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Iceberg!

 

[Mr Tony]

no problem

Hope it explains to folks why those sports moves happen daily

 

[space86]

I hope this weeks uplink brings some new national HD.

 

[Mr Tony]

I forgot to add something to the above. The reason the sports moves happen is because channels 5800-5814 DO NOT MOVE transponders

So lets say alt channel 444 is showing a Milwaukee Bucks game. Dish gets the feed from FSN Wisconsin and puts it on channel 5800 which according to thelist shows 110 TP24. So for that night, 444 is on 110 TP24

now 2 days later channel 444 has a Buffalo Sabres hockey game. Dish gets the MSG (Buffalo) feed and puts it on channel 5803. That shows on thelist as 119 TP12. So for that night, 444 is on 119 TP12

Thats why these channels move all the time.

 

[TNGTony]

I hope this weeks uplink brings some new national HD.

AMC HD would have been nice this week for the Prisoner series.

 

[--sexy-warlock--]

AMC is satisfied with their dwindling viewer base. There is no need to give providers access to their HD channel.

 

[apollog]

It won't happen, because of the lawsuit with Rainbow Media. Until there is a settlement, you won't see AMC HD.