DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 10/22/2025

[Tom Speer]

It does make sense to keep D9S hanging around for a while if they can, rather than throwing the satellite away before absolutely necessary. I think that is why they are keeping D8 at 119 also.

 

[slice1900]

It does make sense to keep D9S hanging around for a while if they can, rather than throwing the satellite away before absolutely necessary. I think that is why they are keeping D8 at 119 also.

I can't remember D9S's transponder plan but knowing how Directv did things I'm guessing it was designed to be capable of standing in for D7S at 119?

If so maybe they could swap it with D8? They'd still have to shut down some of the MPEG2 markets at 119 but they'd be able to prevent Dish from using those transponders.

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Jun 12 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Jun 12 2024 vs Jun 05 2024:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	4​	​	​	​
HD​	275​	1​	1450​	​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	201​	​
SD mpeg2​	446​	-1​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	30​	​	​	​
Slate​	20​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	43​	​	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

A few Info Local Channel deletions
Sports rearrangements
Weekly Anaysis soon
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[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 6/12/2024:

 

[KyL416]

More US Open Golf prep, including swapping WNBC and KNBC to less populated transponders

An INFO channel has been added for this weekend's replacement of 450 Viendo Movies

Cleaining up the INFO channels from the 101 LIL removals along with the NBA placeholders that were added at the start of the season that would have been used if Bally defaulted on their payments to the NBA.

Atlanta's former Azteca station WUVM-LD/4 has been removed, Telemundo Atlanta WKTB-CD/47 is now available as an A3 SD channel

Passing along Gracenote's update of KSATDT's RF numbers

9755 *SPORTS (Entertainment package offer) has been removed

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Jun 19 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Jun 19 2024 vs Jun 12 2024:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	4​	​	​	​
HD​	275​	​	1448​	-2​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	203​	2​
SD mpeg2​	447​	1​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	30​	​	​	​
Slate​	20​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	41​	-2​	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
Several *XXXX Test channels for PR removed
? real or collection error

Weekly Analysis soon
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DataDigesters

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 6/19/2024:

 

[KyL416]

450 CDIN replaced VMOV last Saturday.

9756 MGM Plus $0.99 targetted offer is now live

Goodbye US Open Golf, hello The Open (7/18-7/21) and US Open Tennis (8/26-9/1)

Massive cleanup of old test/shadow records

The labels for the secondary PBS stations WGBX/44 Boston and KTCI/17 Minneapolis have been updated to A3 SD, but in reality the changes likely happened a while back. (The "GBH 44" feed on WGBX's own signal switched to SD back in 2019 when they needed to make room for WBTS-CD, and regulatory wise GBH 44's HD feed became a subchannel of WGBH. TPT Life switched to SD last October when KTCI's signal converted to ATSC 3.0 and the rest of the TPT channels had to squeeze onto to KTCA's signal)

 

[lordodogg]

Any possibility on the MeTV Toons network being carried? It launched today.

 

[PioneerDJ]

DirecTV Business removed references to Longhorn Network from its website as that channel will shut down at the end of this week because of Texas University joining the SEC

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Jun 26 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Jun 26 2024 vs Jun 19 2024:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	4​	​	​	​
HD​	275​	​	1447​	-1​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	203​	​
SD mpeg2​	446​	-1​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	30​	​	​	​
Slate​	20​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	34​	-7​	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

More *Test/Zombie Cleanup
Weekly Analysis soon
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DataDigestsers

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 6/26/2024:

 

[KyL416]

In addition to the zombie/test cleanup

CINE 182, which was repurposed for one of the slates, has returned. CINE 183 which was a duplicate of CINE 177 has been removed

The SigView records for Mission's WVNY Burlington has been removed from the Albany and Boston DMAs.
KEMO/50 San Francisco has been dropped after it switched from Estrella TV to ShopHQ a few months ago

9753 GIFT and 9756 MGMPO have been removed
9758 *ACCESS (Paramount+ with Showtime app access) and 9759 *GIFT (Sports Pack on Us for 12 months) are testing

 

[KyL416]

Longhorn shutsdown tonight at 6pm ET, with an end credits farewell scheduled a few minutes prior followed by a message directing viewers to the SEC Network for next season's Longhorn coverage. The Pac-12 Networks are also shutting down today, The CW picked up the rights for their remaining 2 teams.

NBCU will be providing 2 "Paris Extra" channels for the Olympics that are currently testing on the stream server. They will probably be in the 900s

 

[PioneerDJ]

NBCU will be providing 2 "Paris Extra" channels for the Olympics that are currently testing on the stream server. They will probably be in the 900s

Will they be on satellite as well or just internet/stream? If yes, it will be a benefit for the commercial accounts, especially with Olympic betting at sportsbooks

And if there is an Olympic themed mix channel, will it include the NBC coverage from 9 AM-12 PM ET (from WNBC) that won't air on west coast affiliates?

 

[PioneerDJ]

RSN watch: Florida Panthers leaving Bally Sports Florida and partnering with Scripps to air games on WSFL and WHDT

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Jul 03 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Jul 03 2024 vs Jun 26 2024:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	4​	​	​	​
HD​	277​	2​	1447​	​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	203​	​
SD mpeg2​	448​	2​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	30​	​	​	​
Slate​	20​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	30​	-4​	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

Very little change this week
Weekly Analysis soon
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DataDigesters

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 7/03/2024:

 

[KyL416]

9758 ACCESS (Paramount+ with Showtime app access) and 9759 GIFT (Sports Pack on Us for 12 months) are now live
9754/9757 *GEMINI (Free Gemini offer) is testing

1328 TV One on Demand is now live, 1595 PENT is back in test mode

Updating WSST/55 Albany GA from IND to MNT (5 years after it happened)

Some more Open Golf prep

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Jul 10 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Jul 10 2024 vs Jul 03 2024:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	4​	​	​	​
HD​	275​	-2​	1447​	​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	203​	​
SD mpeg2​	449​	1​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	30​	​	​	​
Slate​	20​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	31​	1​	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

Another slow week.
Not much change
Weekly Analysis soon
Enjoy
DataDigesters