DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 5/1/2024

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

They just switched it back to the slate…

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

Still seeing the ABC intermission report on my DirecTV stream app.

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

They switched it back from the slate to normal programming on satellite!

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Jan 17 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Jan 17 2024 vs Jan 10 2024:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Changes to the use of defined transponders:

5 Transponders cleared of all Streams::
Net 0 TID 19 Beam BB03 is a Spot Beam Transponder on D9S@101, TPN 20
On 01/10/24 this transponder serves DMA 140-Orlando, FL & 185-Tampa, FL
Net 0 TID 25 Beam RB25 is a Spot Beam Transponder on D9S@101, TPN 26
On 01/10/24 this transponder serves DMA 167-San Antonio, TX
Net 0 TID 25 Beam RB26 is a Spot Beam Transponder on D9S@101, TPN 26
On 01/10/24 this transponder serves DMA 165-Salt Lake City, UT
Net 0 TID 27 Beam BB03 is a Spot Beam Transponder on D9S@101, TPN 28
On 01/10/24 this transponder serves DMA 140-Orlando, FL
Net 15 TID 22 Beam NAT is a National Transponder on D12@103ca, TPN 23


Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	4​	​	​	​
HD​	275​	​	1450​	67​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	202​	9​
SD mpeg2​	395​	-2​	366​	-47​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	31​	​	​	​
Slate​	21​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	4​	-3​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	2​	-5​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	60​	-8​	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

Lots of LIL shifts today
More to follow
Weekly Analysis Soon

Stay Warm
DataDigesters

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 1/17/2024:

 

[KyL416]

In addition to the Tegna channels returning

KZUP-CD Baton Rouge, KJJC Great Falls, KGBT Harlingen, WJMN Marquette, WPHL-D2 Philly, WPRI-D2 Providence, WSAV-D3 Savannah and WPNY Utica are now live

325/91 FRESH is now VALU

SD LIL removals:
Columbus OH, Indy, Norfolk, Orlando, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Tampa and Zanesville lost their SD LILs
Greensboro, Miami, Nashville, Philly, Portland OR, Raleigh, Richmond and Roanoke now have additional SD LIL removal warnings as a final notice
Baltimore now has a SD LIL removal warning.

HD remaps for Greensboro's WFMY, Raleigh's WTVD and Roanoke's WDBJ & WSET have been added to their SigView DMAs

9755 PEACOCK (Wild Card game info) has been removed with its TPN slot going to 9756 *GIFT (League Pass on Us)

The D12/TPN 23 channels have moved to D12/TPN 14

Passing along Gracenote's correction of WTVKDT's virtual numbers

The KHOU Houston being labeled as Sacramento error has been corrected

 

[Tom Speer]

Thank you, Kyle for your summary of this massive change today. It is a lot of data changes. I'm still trying to get my head around it.

 

[KyL416]

Here's where the MPEG-2/SD local removals stand right now:

Columbus OH, Indianapolis, Norfolk, Orlando, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Tampa and Zanesville were removed this past week
Greensboro, Miami, Nashville, Philly, Portland OR, Raleigh, Richmond and Roanoke now have their final notices in multiple slots
Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Memphis, Paducah, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Seattle and Washington DC have single notices

We also have confirmation via another thread that they started notifying people in Detroit about a month ago.

The remaining 101 markets without any confirmed notification so far are NYC, LA, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Phoenix, St. Louis and Greenville SC
(The only D9S/101 channels for Albuquerque are SigViewed from Denver, their in market SD locals are on 119)


Considering that they have no more than 14 MPEG-2/SD channels per transponder, with some slight shuffling they can fit NYC (16), LA (19), Chicago (17) and Dallas (16) after the 6 D9S spotbeam transponders switch to national beams via D16, and have enough wiggle room if additional MPEG-2/SD LILs ever need to be added to these markets because of future ownership/contract/affiliation/location changes. i.e. if their deals with TBN, Daystar, TCT and CTN ever lapse and they need to honor the must carry status of their O&Os. For convenience, they would also have room to move the 4 NYC and 5 LA DNS feeds to these transponders.

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Jan 24 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Jan 24 2024 vs Jan 17 2024:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	3​	-1​	​	​
HD​	275​	​	1450​	​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	202​	​
SD mpeg2​	397​	2​	365​	-1​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	31​	​	​	​
Slate​	21​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	4​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	2​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	58​	-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

A Few LIL changes
Weekly Analysis soon
DataDigesters

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 1/24/2024:

 

[KyL416]

The INFO channels for the dropped TCT LILs have been removed

The remap of WTIU Bloomington has been dropped from the Lafayette IN market after Indy's MPEG-2 locals were removed, they still get PBS via the national feed on 65.

9751 P+SHOW (Paramount+ App info) and 9756 GIFT (League Pass on Us) are now live, along with updating the Showtime HD East record for Puerto Rico to P+ with Showtime

Some swaps/rebalancing between TPNs 15 & 22 of the 101 slot

Passing along Gracenote's reformatting of OTA labels in the notes field

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Jan 31 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Jan 31 2024 vs Jan 24 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​	1​	​	​
HD​	275​	​	1450​	​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	202​	​
SD mpeg2​	395​	-2​	365​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	31​	​	​	​
Slate​	21​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	4​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	1​	-1​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	59​	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

94 SD LILs removed
Weekly Analysis soon
DataDigesters

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 1/31/2024:

 

[KyL416]

Nexstar related changes:
Sioux Falls: KELO-D4/10 (CW) replaced KELO-D2/12 (MyNet)
Grand Rapids: WOTV-D2/42 (CW) is now live, WXSP-CD/15 (MyNet) has been dropped

Cleaning up the records for the removed MPEG-2 LILs from Columbus OH, Indy, Norfolk, Orlando, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Tampa and Zanesville

Targetted offer changes:
9754 *MORETV (Choice Upgrade offer) is testing
9756 GIFT (League Pass on Us) has been removed
9758 *GIFT (Center Ice on Us) is testing

Passing along Gracenote's RF update for WPLGDT3 Miami's ATSC 1.0 simulcast host

As of this morning, no INFO/ALERT channels for Cox

 

[KyL416]

We also have confirmation via another thread that they started notifying people in Detroit about a month ago.

The remaining 101 markets without any confirmed notification so far are NYC, LA, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Phoenix, St. Louis and Greenville SC

Dallas, Detroit, Greenville SC, Phoenix, San Francisco and St. Louis now have INFO channels.

As of today, NYC (16), LA (19), Chicago (17), Atlanta (16) and Minneapolis (12) are the only remaining markets without INFO channels. With some shuffling, they will have enough room to keep all 5 of those markets on the 101 slot after D9S goes away.

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Feb 07 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Feb 07 2024 vs Jan 31 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​	​	1439​	-11​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	201​	-1​
SD mpeg2​	396​	1​	360​	-5​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	31​	​	​	​
Slate​	21​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	4​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	58​	-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

Not much different to report
Kyle noted a lot of the changes yesterday
6 New INFO slates about closing SD_LILs Mostly TPN 12 and 20
SD on Sat 101 is not much longer

Cox Media Group dispute
20 channels in 10 markets have been pulled

Weekly Analysis soon for full update
Enjoy
DataDigesters

 

[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 2/7/2024:

 

[KyL416]

In addition to the Cox remaps and the new SD LIL removal INFO channels

Phoenix now has CW via KAZT/7
Columbus MS's FOX and CW affiliates swapped networks

The main Showtime channels have been relabled to ParSHO

9758 GIFT (Center Ice On Us) is now live

Passing along some OTA updates from Gracenote

 

[slice1900]

Dallas, Detroit, Greenville SC, Phoenix, San Francisco and St. Louis now have INFO channels.

As of today, NYC (16), LA (19), Chicago (17), Atlanta (16) and Minneapolis (12) are the only remaining markets without INFO channels. With some shuffling, they will have enough room to keep all 5 of those markets on the 101 slot after D9S goes away.

But will they keep all five? Wouldn't it make more sense to get rid of them all, except for the NYC/LA channels also used for DNS? Then they could add more HD channels to 101.

If they were going to keep SD markets beyond NYC and LA I guess Chicago as #3 in size might make sense, but Atlanta (#7) and especially Minneapolis (#15) would be strange to keep around if they have already booted out #4 Philly and have served notice on #5 Dallas.

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for Feb 14 2024

Comparison of Transponder Data for Feb 14 2024 vs Feb 07 2024:


No changes in system tables for any transponder tuning parameters.

Changes to the use of defined transponders:

5 Transponders cleared of all Streams::
Net 0 TID 11 Beam CB15 is a Spot Beam Transponder on D9S@101, TPN 12
On 02/07/24 this transponder serves DMA 123-Miami, FL
Net 0 TID 17 Beam RB06 is a Spot Beam Transponder on D9S@101, TPN 18
On 02/07/24 this transponder serves DMA 132-Nashville, TN
Net 0 TID 25 Beam CB15 is a Spot Beam Transponder on D9S@101, TPN 26
On 02/07/24 this transponder serves DMA 123-Miami, FL
Net 0 TID 27 Beam RB02 is a Spot Beam Transponder on D9S@101, TPN 28
On 02/07/24 this transponder serves DMA 155-Raleigh, NC
Net 3 TID 30 Beam NAT is a National Transponder on D8@119, TPN 31


Stream (PID) counts:

LIVE Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	4​	​	​	​
HD​	275​	​	1449​	10​
SD mpeg4​	139​	​	203​	2​
SD mpeg2​	382​	-14​	294​	-66​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	31​	​	​	​
Slate​	21​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	4​	​
SD mpeg4​	​	​	1​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	57​	-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
Lots of SD_LIL shifts
8 New Alerts for losing SD LILs Boston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Denver, Memphis, Paducah, Pittsburgh, & Sacramento
5 TPN's cleared of LIL SD Channels on 101
Weekly Analysis and other comments soon
Happy Valentines Day!!
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