DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 10/14/2026

[dtv757]

Thanks

 

[KyL416]

The FanDuel channels are gone, they finally ceased programming last night at midnight ET. No fanfare, just a replay of Kansas City Monarchs at Milwaukee Milkmen from 9/22 at 9pm, an episode of Diggin' Deep at 11pm, followed by some PSAs and then dead air at midnight.

NHL Predators is on 651

The NHL Network alt and Center Ice Mix also returned for the season


The Hurricanes, Blues, Blue Jackets and Wild feeds are still testing on the streaming server, along with a Clippers feed. The Clippers still haven't announced their TV deal, but Gracenote recently renamed the NBA Clippers entry to "ClipperVision"

 

[jamieh1]

The FanDuel channels are gone, they finally ceased programming last night at midnight ET. No fanfare, just a replay of Kansas City Monarchs at Milwaukee Milkmen from 9/22 at 9pm, an episode of Diggin' Deep at 11pm, followed by some PSAs and then dead air at midnight.

NHL Predators is on 651

The NHL Network alt and Center Ice Mix also returned for the season


The Hurricanes, Blues, Blue Jackets and Wild feeds are still testing on the streaming server, along with a Clippers feed. The Clippers still haven't announced their TV deal, but Gracenote recently renamed the NBA Clippers entry to "ClipperVision"

Had a Hurricanes have moved to channel 650 in the guide banner but that has now gone.

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Sep 30 2026

Comparison of Transponder Data for Sep 30 2026 vs Sep 23 2026:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Changes to the use of defined transponders:


2 Previously unused Transponders with current APG records::
Net 15 TID 17 Beam NAT + PR is a National Transponder on D15@103ca, TPN 18
Net 15 TID 128 Beam NAT is a National Transponder on D15@103cb, TPN 5

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	4​	​	​	​
HD​	262​	-11​	1447​	1​
SD mpeg4​	143​	​	194​	​
SD mpeg2​	432​	-13​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	26​	​	​	​
Slate​	19​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	3​	1​
SD mpeg4​	1​	1​	​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	67​	32​	​	​
​

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

NHL onboarding
MLB to go to rest
Weekly Analysis soon
Enjoy
DataDigesters

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 9/30/2026:

 

[KyL416]

C-SPAN3 is finally testing on satellite as a MPEG4/SD channel

WXCW/46 is now live for Fort Myers

So far only WJBF-D2/7 Augusta and KSVI-D2/7 Billings are testing out of that batch of Nexstar CW stations.

NHL feeds testing:
650 *HURCANES
660.1 *BLUJCKTS
668.1 *WILD
673 *BLUES

Peacock Sports Pass is testing on 9440-9450

Some more TPN swaps, and prep for additional ones

Targetted Offers:
9751 *NETFLX
9755 *STREAM - New season of Tulsa King with Paramount+ Essential for $8.99
9756 *STREAM - New HBO Max Legal Drama "War" with HBO Max Basic with ads for $10.99
9759 *SPORTS - 6 Months of DIRECTV Sports Pack - On Us!!

 

[cp2k]

C-SPAN3 is finally testing on satellite as a MPEG4/SD channel

In this day and age why they can't finally put the C-SPAN channels in HD is beyond me. Multiple channels have gone out of business/shut down in recent years. You'd think they could squeeze out a little of that space for them on one of the birds. I wish they would at least implement a hybrid system like Dish does with some of their channels where you could stream it in HD from the servers if they're not going to carry it.

 

[dtv757]

Hopefully CW Norfolk soon

 

[TheRatPatrol]

C-SPAN3 is finally testing on satellite as a MPEG4/SD channel

What channel will it be on?

 

[KyL416]

What channel will it be on?

352, it's on one of the transponders that has over a dozen spanish and international MPEG4/SD channels that used to be on 119/95 along with some other newer channels like Positiv and MovieSphere Gold.

Multiple channels have gone out of business/shut down in recent years. You'd think they could squeeze out a little of that space for them on one of the birds.

They did use some of the defunct channels to have FOX Soccer Plus and Willow 2 go 24/7 HD, and some additions like Pursuit and H&I used slots previously occupied by defunct channels. But most of the gaps from defunct channels are now being used for additional part time feeds since they now need a lot more than the repurposed CINEHD channels. i.e. they now need part time slots for the MLB teams that left FanDuel and some of the NHL and NBA teams. The teams that went exclusively to DAZN or a spotbeamed local for in market viewers will also still have their games carried nationally on the part time feeds for Center Ice, League Pass and Extra Innings.

There's also dozens of additional part time commercial channels that were added in recent years, some of which are also available to residential customers:
11 Peacock Sports Pass channels on 9440-9450
20 Paramount+ UEFA channels on 9454-9473
15 MLS on Apple TV channels on 9475-9489
7 ESPN+ channels on 9519-9525
2 Apple F1 channels on 9526-9527
2 Apple MLB channels on 9528-9529
5 PPV channels on 9535-9539, including commercial only WWE, UFC and PGA events
2 Netflix channels on 9546-9547
3 Prime Video channels on 9548-9550
16 NFL Sunday Ticket channels on 9552-9567
10 Private Event channels on 9700-9709

They aren't included in the live HD stream count since the grabs are done around 7am ET, so the part time channels are usually all pointing to the same offline slate outside of some random Asian/Australian sports and the VSiN morning show on some RSN alts. If they do a grab on a late Saturday afternoon in the fall or that busy night where every NHL and NBA team is playing there will be a lot more additions in the live HD stream count.

 

[jamieh1]

Maybe will finally be added to the signature stream packages. Been on the genre packs for a while.

 

[TheRatPatrol]

KyL, apologies if you have answered this before, but why doesn't DirecTV have NBCSN for the baseball games?

 

[KyL416]

Those NBC Sports channels on 619 first starting testing several months before the new NBCSN was announced. DTV isn't cherrypicking NBCSN programming, NBCU has only provided some Premier League, Men's Tour de France, and some NCAA Basketball on the channels. The rest of the time the upstream feeds have the be back soon slate that you sometimes see during commercial breaks on Peacock.

The new NBCSN is still limited to a X1/IP only channel on Xfinity (which isn't available on QAM boxes including TiVo or those who rather use a 3rd party ISP instead of bundling everything with Comcast) and 2 residential only streaming providers YTTV (who only has RSNs for the Athletics, Giants and Phillies) and Fubo (who has no Turner channels which means no ALDS or ALCS and was in a dispute with NBCU for the first half of the season). They still don't carry NBCSN as a TV Everywhere stream on the NBC or NBC Sports apps.

They weren't blindsided by this Wild Card series, the dates and NBCSN's limited availability were known last year when MLB gave the rights to NBC/Peacock instead of ESPN/ABC, NBCU knew that they wouldn't have any contract renewals that would expand NBCSN's distribution to other traditional providers before then, and Everpass still decided to make October 1st the launch date of the Peacock Sports Pass channels for DTV's business customers.

 

[cp2k]

Those NBC Sports channels on 619 first starting testing several months before the new NBCSN was announced. DTV isn't cherrypicking NBCSN programming, NBCU has only provided some Premier League, Men's Tour de France, and some NCAA Basketball on the channels. The rest of the time the upstream feeds have the be back soon slate that you sometimes see during commercial breaks on Peacock.

The new NBCSN is still limited to a X1/IP only channel on Xfinity (which isn't available on QAM boxes including TiVo or those who rather use a 3rd party ISP instead of bundling everything with Comcast) and 2 residential only streaming providers YTTV (who only has RSNs for the Athletics, Giants and Phillies) and Fubo (who has no Turner channels which means no ALDS or ALCS and was in a dispute with NBCU for the first half of the season). They still don't carry NBCSN as a TV Everywhere stream on the NBC or NBC Sports apps.

They weren't blindsided by this Wild Card series, the dates and NBCSN's limited availability were known last year when MLB gave the rights to NBC/Peacock instead of ESPN/ABC, NBCU knew that they wouldn't have any contract renewals that would expand NBCSN's distribution to other traditional providers before then, and Everpass still decided to make October 1st the launch date of the Peacock Sports Pass channels for DTV's business customers.

Having those NBCSN Channels on YTTV was a big coup. Between that and ESPN Unlimited being integrated they could easily replace DirecTV as the sports king if they would make a deal for MLB regular season carriage. That's the only thing keeping me with DirecTV at this point in time.

 

[KyL416]

YTTV only has the NBCSN channels because their contract was up first after the relaunch was announced, so they even had the channel before it went live on Xfinity. Fubo got it in June after settling their months long dispute with NBCU.

As of now YTTV has no plans for any additional RSNs and will probably lose the Athletics after they move to Vegas and leave NBCS California. In some cities that means spending over $70 for separate team specific D2C subscriptions. And if your NBA teamed signed with DAZN, the $19.99 plan only lets your household watch on 2 devices at the same time from the same IP address. If someone in your household wants to watch a game on the go or like many families, everyone watches their own TV during primetime, you need to spend an additional $5 for the "ultimate" plan.

DTV streaming also now has ESPN+/Unlimited integration, while satellite customers get the same events business customers have access to in the 210s, along with deeplinks to the ESPN app for additional events via the Gemini. The Sports Hub on Geminis also provides deeplinks to Peacock events. Peacock Premium is also now included as part of Movies Extra, which is cheaper than a standalone Peacock Premium subscription.

 

[KyL416]

CW Twin Falls moved from KMVT-D2/12 to KTFT-L3/12 today

Nobody at either station bothered telling any of the listings providers, so they all still have CW on 11.2 KMVTDT2 and none of them have the correct schedule for 7.3 KTFTLD3. Gracenote still has True Crime (since they were also never told about Quest moving to 7.3 in April), FYI/TitanTV and Rovi/Tivo still have Quest.

 

[Mr Tony]

KMTV-D2/12

KMVT
KMTV is in Omaha

 

[jamieh1]

Carolina Hurricanes game channel 650 is now live on DTV stream. But it has a tv promise slate.

 

[TheRatPatrol]

If DirecTV stream only had build your own multi-view it would be perfect.

 

[Mr Tony]

MN Wild have 10 games on local TV

Minnesota Wild Announces KSTP-TV, 5 Eyewitness News and KSTC-TV, 45TV to Televise 10 Regular Season Games | Minnesota Wild

GAMES WILL ALSO AIR ON GRAY MEDIA STATIONS THROUGHOUT UPPER MIDWEST

www.nhl.com