RTPi America on AMC 4

[pjcl]

I've lost signal on the RTPi America channel (12034 H 3003), even though all the other channels on that bird are coming in fine. Can anyone else confirm this? No apparent weather factors at play at the moment...

 

[brotherhood]

same here

 

[pjcl]

same here

I wonder what happened...

 

[brotherhood]

might have to do with the new satellite thats going to replace amc4

 

[brotherhood]

all i know is it better be fixed for the worldcup lol

 

[pjcl]

There won't be World Cup matches on there, though... RTP has the rights for broadcasting in Portugal, not abroad. It's the same with Euro Cup matches...

 

[brotherhood]

are you sure?

 

[Mr Tony]

they must be having uplink issues

shows as a very pixelated 35 quality here in Minnesota. Rest of stations on sat read fine

 

[phlatwound]

I noticed the same here last night, but it seems to be fixed now.

Got 75% Q on my CS 6000/90 cm Fortec this morning.

 

[norman881]

I noticed the same here last night, but it seems to be fixed now.

Got 75% Q on my CS 6000/90 cm Fortec this morning.

Same setup, same signal here in Washington State.

 

[carlospr43]

96% 43% in the carribean

 

[Jim S.]

Yep, it's back down. 90 S, 35 Q here in Pennsylvania. Not breaking up as bad as last night though.

 

[pjcl]

Back online this morning - low Q here in Arkansas...

 

[pjcl]

are you sure?

That's how it has been in the past... same with Champions League games... ever seen one on RTPi??

They only show Portugal's qualifying games, not actual tournaments, because someone else (ESPN, ABC) has the rights for broadcasting here in the US, and those rights are exclusive... I wonder if even Azteca 7 will be seen here during the event...

 

[brotherhood]

i hope they fix the problem buy tomorrow , man i really would hate to miss the friendly game

 

[photoman76]

might have to do with the new satellite thats going to replace amc4

SES 1 is still at 131° West, helping out AMC 11 with the Galaxy 15 problem. It should start moving toward 101° West again in a week or so. AMC 2/4 could have experienced some power problems as they are really loading it up with duplicate feeds from AMC 11.

 

[Cosmokramer11]

I am getting it right now at 90% quality here in NY

 

[WTguy]

That's how it has been in the past... same with Champions League games... ever seen one on RTPi??

They only show Portugal's qualifying games, not actual tournaments, because someone else (ESPN, ABC) has the rights for broadcasting here in the US, and those rights are exclusive... I wonder if even Azteca 7 will be seen here during the event...

ESPN rights are for English. They are not exclusive. Here is a list of the rights for various nations (ck the link below). You will notice the US has about 9 right's holders in various language.
International rights are not typical of what happens here in the US with the various sports here. I was in Singapore back when NBC had the NBA. I remember specifically during the finals, one local sports cable channel used the NBC feed with Costas and the game was also on ESPN Asia with ESPN announcers.

I have included 2006 because it appears the 2010 list is incomplete.
2010 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2006 rights below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2006_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasters