I have been with it all along!
You need to pay more attention! Only Transponder 11 had signal and that was on and off at times. Now almost all of them are HOT! If you had had a satellite as long as I have, and had been through all the different times they turned on a bird. You would know what this means!
Even thought we can not see anything right now, channels are be broadcast! If you had a wide open system you could see them. They are doing what is know as a burn-in, before they let the rest of us see them. They are working out any last minute bugs.