Domestic Transponder Map ~ Data 6/7/2023

[TheRatPatrol]

For in market viewers they also stream the Rising FC games via their website and the AZFamily app.

Many Mercury games will be simulcasted on KTVK/3, while the games that are exclusive to AZ Family Sports 44 will also be simulcasted OTA on 3.5. They also have a lot of upcoming nationally televised games on ESPN, ABC, CBS Sports Net and Ion. (The NBA TV games are usually blacked out if an in market broadcaster is also televising them)

Good news, I can get 3.5 OTA. Thanks for the information.

44 is a low-power station. I'm not sure exactly where you are within the Phoenix DMA, but the coverage contour for them on RabbitEars only is within the southern portion of the DMA (Maricopa and Pinal counties) and not any of the northern or eastern counties like Mohave, Coconino, Navajo, Greenlee etc. counties

I’m in north Phoenix, but we have north mountain in our pathway to the towers, that doesn’t help with the lower powered stations. Thanks

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

They also have a lot of upcoming nationally televised games on ESPN, ABC, CBS Sports Net and Ion.

Wait...hold up...Ion airs sports nationally? Or is it just on the Phoenix Ion station KPPX 51?

 

[KyL416]

ION is going to have the WNBA Friday Night Spotlight, starting this week with Washington Mystics @ Chicago Sky followed by Dallas Wings @ Seattle Storm.

 

[doctor J]

DirecTV Satellite Transponder Updates for May 24 2023

Comparison of Transponder Data for May 24 2023 vs May 17 2023:


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​	279​	​	1445​	​
SD mpeg4​	138​	​	198​	​
SD mpeg2​	402​	​	440​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Audio​	89​	​	​	​
Push​	31​	​	​	​
Slate​	20​	​	1​	​
​

TEST Streams​	National​		Spot Beams​
	Count​	Change​	Count​	Change​
4K​	​	​	​	​
HD​	​	​	​	​
SD mpeg4​	2​	​	​	​
SD mpeg2​	​	​	​	​
RB​	​	​	​	​
Engr Work​	49​	​	​	​
​

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
Weekly Analysis soon
French Open channels readied
A couple of LIL updates
Not much overall
Stay Safe
Enjoy
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[doctor J]

Weekly Analysis for 5/24/2023:

 

[KyL416]

More Roland Garros experience prep, including Tennis Channel and USA swapping transponder slots

Prep for a potential Padres game feed on 694.3 (again) if Diamond Sports misses next week's payment.

Subchannel relabels hit the rest of Sioux Falls and South Bend

They finally fixed WBPX Boston's callsign

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

Prep for a potential Padres game feed on 694.3 (again) if Diamond Sports misses next week's payment

How come all this missing payment stuff was never a problem during the FOX Sports Net days?

 

[KyL416]

It looks like they only fixed the HD feed's callsign, while the SD feed still says WPBX, since I never saw that on the changes.

The SD feed already said WBPX, only the HD feed needed to be corrected as it has had the typo ever since Boston's Ion HD feed was added last March.

How come all this missing payment stuff was never a problem during the FOX Sports Net days?

During the FSN days they were owned by an international mega conglomerate who could also tie the deals to their sister cable and broadcast stations, and also had international rights deals for many of the same leagues so they could air the games overseas on the various Sky and Fox Sports international channels. The Bally RSNs are part of a seperate Diamond Sports LLC, and their carriage contracts aren't even tied to Sinclair's broadcast stations or the Tennis Channel.

 

[Gary Toma]

The TPN Map today opens up to the NATIONAL tab instead of the ENGR tab. There are preferences for each approach.

We will try it this way for a couple of weeks and let the feedback be our guide...

 

[PioneerDJ]

Channel 9537 and 660 (Puerto Rico) is a free preview for all DTV commercial accounts of Dana White’s Power Slap 2 live tonight

 

[Gary Toma]

Channel 9537 and 660 (Puerto Rico) is a free preview for all DTV commercial accounts of Dana White’s Power Slap 2 live tonight

Please post this good info in the
Programming Forum/ May Free Previews thread

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

The TPN Map today opens up to the NATIONAL tab instead of the ENGR tab. There are preferences for each approach.

We will try it this way for a couple of weeks and let the feedback be our guide...

I haven’t even opened your latest map yet, but I have always wanted it to open up to that tab, so thanks for making that happen!

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

Please post this good info in the
Programming Forum/ May Free Previews thread

So you're basically saying free previews for events only accessible to commercial customers count as free-preview-thread-worthy, not just free previews for premium channels, right?

 

[Gary Toma]

If it is a Free Preview, let’s let the viewers know. I don’t think we need any rules beyond that.

 

[KyL416]

DIRECTV struck a deal with EverPass to distribute Sunday Ticket to business customers. It will be on channels 9552 to 9565.

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

There's a bunch of others that need to be updated:
330 BET Her needs to be mapped to logo_id 78
454 Univision Tlnovelas needs to be mapped to logo_id 429
459 AtresCine needs to be mapped to logo_id 265
469 TyC needs to be mapped to logo_id 561
628 NESN needs to be mapped to the NESN logo (778) instead of the NESN National logo (177)
635-1 MSG Western New York HD and 635-3 MSG2 need to be mapped to the MSG logo (73) instead of the MSGSN logo (811)
687 Root Northwest needs to be mapped to logo_id 109 or 110
800 Music Choice TV needs to be mapped to logo_id 107
1253 LMN needs to be mapped to the LMN logo (136 HD or 320 SD) instead of still pointing to logo_id 418 which has since been repurposed for FanDuel
1610 BTN needs to be mapped to the current BTN logo (767) instead of the old BTN HD logo (842)
1922 Hallmark Movies Now needs to be mapped to logo_id 215
1924 Up Faith & Family needs to be mapped to logo_id 40
1928 Acorn needs to be mapped to logo_id 377
1930 HISTORY VAULT needs to be mapped to logo_id 214
1942 ALLBLK needs to be mapped to logo_id 375
1945 Revry needs to be mapped to logo_id 41
1960 Fox Nation needs to be mapped to logo_id 336
2039 Little Saigon Radio needs to be mapped to logo_id 717
9478 and 9479 MLS Season Pass need to be mapped to logo_id 84 like the rest of the channels
9521-9525 should be mapped to one of the ESPN logos (2 SD or 544 HD) as they are dedicated to ESPN+ for Business events

Even though they're mapped to logo_ids, ShopHQ (173), FM (48), Channel Neco (201) and Nippon (202) are missing their logo assets.

Some of the LIL Ion channels still need to be mapped to logo_id 423. (It would also be nice if they start mapping the LIL MeTV, Bounce, Grit, Estrella, CTN, SBN, TCT and ShopHQ stations to their logo_ids)

The logos for Golf Channel, Sundance, WHT, Living Faith, Videorola, Bandamax, De Pelicula, De Pelicula Clasico, ForoTV, Next Level Sports, NBC Sports Bay Area and Stingray Karaoke are outdated.

Grit and Bounce need to be replaced by their darkbg/negative variants so they can be visible.

Most of the MPEG-4 SD versions of MPEG-2 SD locals that are affiliated with a network (not Independents) are also missing logo_ids:
WKRC-D2 (CW Cincinnati) needs to be mapped to logo_id 677
KXTU-LD (CW Colorado Springs) needs to be mapped to logo_id 677
KBJR-D3 (MyNet Duluth) needs to be mapped to logo_id 664
WHP-D2 (MyNet Harrisburg, a DMA I've been to a few times in the past) needs to be mapped to logo_id 664
WZDX-D2 (MyNet Huntsville) needs to be mapped to logo_id 664
WFPA-CD (UniMas Philly) needs to be mapped to logo_id 393
WNAC-D2 (CW Providence) needs to be mapped to logo_id 677
WTNC-LD (UniMas Raleigh) needs to be mapped to logo_id 393
WTCN-CD (MyNet West Palm Beach) needs to be mapped to logo_id 664

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

The Bally RSNs are part of a seperate Diamond Sports LLC, and their carriage contracts aren't even tied to Sinclair's broadcast stations or the Tennis Channel.

I would have to guess Diamond Sports is on one contract, with Sinclair broadcast (including shell companies, like Fox here is owned by New Age Media) and TC being on another, right?

 

[KyL416]

New logos were added to the directv.com server:
852 Cleveland Guardians (Previously used by Golf Channel HD)
853 Minnesota Twins (Previously used by Footschool TV)
857 Texas Rangers (Previously used by A Toda Musica)
858 TC Internacional (Previously used by Comedy Central HD)

They also updated the logo for 196 EWTN Espanol

 

[DirecTVFanSince2016]

Luckily, June is right around the corner, so Gary can include those in that months update.

 

[KyL416]

Prep for a potential Padres game feed on 694.3 (again) if Diamond Sports misses next week's payment.

They missed the deadline and the Padres channel is now in the guide. Tonight's Padres game will be the last one to air on Bally Sports San Diego.

There will be a hearing tomorrow where we might learn more about the fate of the Reds, Diamondbacks, Guardians, Rangers and Twins.


EDIT: More details about the Padres new TV home and other options to view their games.