Non-Religious channels are desired according to OP , but I definitely agree with your satellite selection and I bet you can get plenty of non-religious programming on NSS-806 too.
As long as Azteca is ITC , I believe these channels might be the best offering on Ku from Mexico.
You would think that all spanish channels are created equal , not from a national's point of view.
Most people can love Cubavision for what it offers but it certainly doesn't have the Mexico comraderie feeling you get from Azteca , I mean just the commercials and Soccer league stuff could bring tears to some people living in the sticks.
Most hispanics living in a big U.S. metro TV market are spoiled by all the offerings , The Big 3 Univision - Telemundo - Telefutura , and some LP stuff too ....in Chicago we get Azteca America also .
Jayelem,
In your last statement (paragraph), were you referring to OTA as well as satellite FTA broadcasts?
I can receive about 11-15 OTA channels here in the Omaha, NE area, but I don't ever watch them.
Since my hobby revolves around the satellite reception, I basically ignore the OTA channels, other than to check them out and see what is available. I do actually pick up one of the RTV affiliates from KLKN-DT from Hastings/Lincoln/Kearney NE.
They are all good reception channels for me and I am using a simple indoor antenna (RCA) sitting on an Advent speaker next to my entertainment center. One of those square, thin HD antennas that you can buy from Walmart or Radio Shack. I do have to reposition that antenna to obtain a usable signal from each as they don't all come in at the same time, depending upon how I orientate the antenna.
I kinda went off tangent here to discuss the OTA signal reception, but I was just curious.
Getting back to the availability of Spanish / Mexican or Latino broadcasts via satellite. I know that I pick up quite a few from many different satellites across the horizon. Since English is my primary language, I usually pay little attention to any others, so I cannot tell what is a good channel for any Spanish, Germanic, Russian, Greek, Arabic, or any other language. However, I do identify that there are quite a few Hispanic channels available across the board (arc).
With any ethnicity or language in mind, there are a LOT of FTA channels on just the Ku-Band available, which are FTA. The biggest problem I see is that they are spread out over many different satellites. Therefore, you pick up a couple of channels here and a few there and so on. Having a motorized dish is a definite plus in this regard and if a person were "multi-lingual" you could really enjoy a cornucopia of FTA services! Too bad that I am not well versed in multiple languages.
I guess what I am leading up to is this... Do you think that this lady (your customer or acquaintance or friend) would have a mind to install a motorized dish to serve her fancy?
She could have access to everything FTA in her area, if she had a mind to. I initially thought that I would not like a motorized system as it seemed inconvenient to wait for the motor to reposition the dish in order to surf channels. However, in all honesty, it is really quite quick. Thirty to forty-five seconds or even up to a minute and a half is really not a problem to surf from sat to sat once you become accustomed to it.
A combination of one (or a couple) fixed point dishes for the favorites and a motorized dish for the rest is a really great setup, at least for me.
Maybe your customer could get used to that, too. Good luck and please inform us what you and the customer eventually decide upon. It will be interesting to know what you end up doing.
RADAR
