110/119 Listings Post 129 Transition (Updated 7/6/2025)

[zippyfrog]

I went through the satellite/transponder listings and updated it through today, 7/6/2025. Once again, very few things that have changed over the last couple of months.

 

[dishrich]

Merit TV is gone from ch 247

 

[charlesrshell]

Merit TV is gone from ch 247

OH NO. This is upsetting. The screen says Merit TV has filed for bankruptcy.

 

[zippyfrog]

Yeah - if I remember correctly, it was removed from DirecTV last week when the filed for bankruptcy and sued Trinity Broadcasting? I was surprised it wasn't removed earlier. The EPG was changed to Dr. Phil True Crime and Dr. Phil Primetime 24 hours a day the past couple of days.

 

[lordodogg]

it was removed from DirecTV last week

They removed it last night

 

[zippyfrog]

They removed it last night

Thanks - I thought it was a lot earlier.

 

[zippyfrog]

Wow! A lot of changes on Western Arc. Very strange to have all of these changes at once after almost 2 years of minimal movement. As I am looking at the changes, Dish cleaned up 110, TP 21, which was a free for all with a mixture of SD, HD, and music channels. They moved all their SD channels off this transponder and put them with other SD channels. There were then 5 HD channels that moved from transponders that were already maxed out to 110, TP 21. With Merit Street Media dropping the Dr. Phil channel (currently just a static slate), that means there are in essence 6 slots available for HD channels that weren't there previously.

For those of you interested, here are the changes:

Channel	Type	Network	Now	Was
153	HD	MLB Strikezone	110, TP 09	119, TP 21
359	SD	Bounce	110, TP 10	110, TP 21
362	SD	BET Gospel	110, TP 10	110, TP 21
365	SD	BET Jams	110, TP 10	110, TP 21
138	HD	TNT	110, TP 21	119, TP 21
241	HD	Paramount Network	110, TP 21	119, TP 18
313	HD	HBO Latino	110, TP 21	119, TP 14
378	HD	Indieplex	110, TP 21	119, TP 21
400	HD	Tennis Channel	110, TP 21	119, TP 17
105	HD	USA	119, TP 12	119, TP 21
139	HD	TBS	119, TP 12	119, TP 18
154	HD	NFL Network	119, TP 12	119, TP 18
152	HD	MLB Network	119, TP 14	119, TP 17
184	HD	Animal Planet	119, TP 14	119, TP 20
270	HD	Univision	119, TP 14	119, TP 20
401	HD	Golf Channel	119, TP 14	119, TP 18
827	HD	Univision (same as 270)	119, TP 14	119, TP 20
71	HD	QVC	119, TP 17	119, TP 20
137	HD	QVC	119, TP 17	119, TP 20
247	HD	Merit Street Media	119, TP 17	119, TP 20
128	HD	WE	119, TP 18	119, TP 12
183	HD	TLC	119, TP 18	119, TP 12
273	HD	Galavision	119, TP 18	119, TP 20
410	HD	Big 10	119, TP 18	119, TP 17
833	HD	Galavision (same as 273)	119, TP 18	119, TP 20
156	HD	NBA TV	119, TP 20	119, TP 21
310	HD	HBO East	119, TP 20	119, TP 14
312	HD	HBO 2	119, TP 20	119, TP 14
342	HD	Encore Western	119, TP 20	119, TP 14
5001	HD	NBA TV (Same as 156)	119, TP 20	119, TP 21
70	HD	HSN	119, TP 21	119, TP 12
120	HD	History	119, TP 21	119, TP 17
196	HD	Travel Channel	119, TP 21	119, TP 17
271	HD	Unimas (same as 830)	119, TP 21	119, TP 17
287	HD	HSN	119, TP 21	119, TP 12
830	HD	Unimas (same as 271)	119, TP 21	119, TP 17

 

[zippyfrog]

As I am cleaning up my data after all of the recent changes, it makes me wonder what Dish's next move could be. Right now, Dish has 36 channels dedicated to Extra Innings, League Pass, Center Ice, MLB Alternate, NHL Alternate, the 4 Big 10 alternate channels, the 3 sports alternate channels, NFL RedZone, MLB StrikeZone, and the PPV sporting events. 16 channels on 110, TP 09, 16 channels on 110, TP 15, and 4 on 110, TP 24.

With the retirement of 118, we saw Dish move all international packages to be streaming only. It makes me wonder if in the future we will see Dish make the 3 out of market sports packages streaming only. If they did, there would be no need for the equivalent of 36 channels sitting there.