TBS

[rogerduncan100]

Is TBS Atlanta on c-band, or even k-band? I like baseball!

 

[brentb636]

I've never seen a TBS feed. If nothing else, Fox games might show up on the Carib mux on 99W, Cband.

 

[Mikhel]

Last year there were a lot of TBS feeds for the playoffs, i think only one game was not shown FTA, i hope this year it's the same =).

 

[rogerduncan100]

So you guys are talking about wildfeeds, which require a well tuned dish because the signals are not that strong because they are only meant to be picked up by affiliate TV stations using very large dishes?

 

[brentb636]

Wildfeeds, yes, but the signals sometimes are quite powerful. If the feeds turn out to be DVB-S2, though, they may require more dish because of the 8psk and high FEC rates . Until the playoffs start we won't know the details. Most of the GOOD STUFF in FTA is not intended for us, we are an aberration in the cosmos.

 

[rogerduncan100]

Brent

What proportion of sports wildfeeds are k-band and what proportion are c-band? Any idea?

 

[bama1]

Have never seen Braves on anything except Fox spso /ESPNwhen I was paying DTV. Some of the home games are on PCH(peachtree tv) TV 17.1 OTA which is the local version of TBS. I can receive PCH occasionally when tropo is right, its 86 mi line of sight for me.

Would like to see the OTA antenna that would allow you to get that!!!

 

[photoman76]

TBS like TNT uses DVB-S2 for backhauls. They started using Biss encryption this year on some feeds.

 

[tvropro]

TBS the master is in PowerVu on 133w but its encrypted

 

[brentb636]

Brent

What proportion of sports wildfeeds are k-band and what proportion are c-band? Any idea?

More regular feeds on C-band, but frequent special ones on Ku band. We're starting to see more and more encryption, though. Peachtree TV has been on C-band for the last several years, at various locations . Nice game when you can find it.