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CBS has switched most of its analog satellite wild feeds to an unavailable digital transmission system. Dish owners cannot receive CBS wild feeds that use the new video transmission system. Some sporting events, like college basketball coverage, and special programs, like awards presentations, shown live on CBS may still be available on unscrambled wild feeds on T4, T5 and/or T6 on an occasional basis. Dish owners who qualify for satellite reception of distant CBS TV stations offered by PrimeTime 24 (WSEE from Erie, Pennsylvania on S4, 24) and Netlink (KCNC from Denver on F1, 6) can subscribe to the stations for full-time viewing access to CBS programming.
Appearing Dec. 22-24, DIRECTV's Freeview features "The Glory of Christmas." Watch more than 200 performers, flying angels, joyous music, and splendid pageantry. This Freeview event is for the whole family.
Beginning today, DIRECTV
is offering local broadcast network channels to subscribers in Austin, Texas, and West Palm Beach, Fla.
Tune the channel to 103 every weekend in December to experience the DIRECTV Freeview series "Music in High Places" featuring Wynonna Judd strapping on the red ropers in Italy. Watch as Wynonna plays some of her popular songs, without her mother present, and learn more about the Italian locale in the process.
TiVo extended its agreement with HBO, a deal
that includes the addition of TiVo's Ipreview and Network Showcases offerings.
DIRECTV is delivering local broadcast network
channels to its customers in Columbus, Ohio.
EchoStar's DISH Network will add HBO Latino
at no additional cost to HBO subscribers on Dec. 13.
EchoStar's DISH Network added BVN-TV, known as the "Best of Flanders and the Netherlands." The channel sells for $9.99 a month. It will broadcast from EchoStar's satellite at 61.5 degrees.
EchoStar's DISH Network added the "style."
channel from E! Networks to its America's Top 150 programming package beginning today at no
additional cost to customers.
HBO Latino on G1. HBO Latino is now available to C-band dish owners who have a
4DTV satellite receiver and a subscription to HBO. HBO Latino-East is on G1, 751 and HBO Latino-West is on G1, 753. The new Spanish-language channel from HBO presents movies, original programming and boxing in Spanish as well as music videos featuring today's top Latino artists.
In March, Showtime will introduce three new channels to its Showtime Unlimited digital
package in an effort to broaden network appeal.
DIRECTV is delivering "Instant Weather" from
The Weather Channel, an offering coming through the DBS platform's interactive service.
During the weekend, Movie-goers in New York's Times Square who bought tickets for Miramax's "Bounce" saw the first film to be beamed via satellite to a theater. The flick, which stars Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow, was encrypted by Boeing, which then added a second layer of encryption to the electronic stream it sent via satellite. It took eight hours to send the file from Tulsa, Okla., to a satellite dish atop the theater in New York. Once in the theater, a computer decrypted the file and stored it on several computer hard disks. From there, it was projected on the screen using equipment from Texas Instruments.
Loral CyberStar completed its upgrade of the RE/MAX Satellite Network (RSN), which delivers key applications and services to RE/MAX real estate associates and brokers. RE/MAX uses CyberStar's Infomedia solution to distribute training, corporate communications, news and special events from its Denver headquarters.
WISDOM Television has been added to DISH
Network's America's Top 150 programming package at no additional cost to customers.
EchoStar's DISH Network is offering local channels in the Albuquerque-Santa Fe, N.M., area. Stations covered by the satellite provider are KOAT-ABC, KRQE-CBS, KOB-NBC and KASA-FOX. DISH's local TV packages sell for $4.99 a month. A national PBS channel can be purchased for an additional $1 a month.
DIRECTV debuted the Phoenix North America Chinese Channel on Wednesday. It features 24-hour news broadcasting and entertainment programming from Hong Kong. DIRECTV will offer the new channel for $19.99 per month on channel 456. Customers must already own or purchase the DIRECTV Plus System to receive the channel.
The following NFL channels have been re-named on the Interactive Programming Guide of
4DTV owners:
Seven Spanish Channels have moved to from X4 to C4:
Satcom 1 (now located at 142 degrees W), has now become C1 and new satellite GE-7 (now located at 137 degrees W where C1 was originally located) were recently launched. Programming from old C1 is now shown on GE-7, and will show up in the Interactive Programming Guide as W7. The Interactive Programming Guide should pick up these new changes within the next two weeks. GE-7 will be shown as W7 and will contain the programming previously shown on C1. CBand customers will not have to make any manual changes to their Interactive Programming Guide. These changes will be automatically downloaded.
C-Band subscriber numbers for October took
another tumble, according to Motorola and its C-Band Access Control Center in San
Diego.
FOX Cable Networks Group and DIRECTV
entered into an agreement to deliver in-market FOX Regional Sports Networks, FX and FOX Sports
World to establishments in the lodging industry.
Daystar TV, a free full-time religious channel, is now transmitting on F1, 10 and its original satellite coordinate S4, 10. It's possible Daystar TV will move from S4, 10 to F1, 10 in the near future.
The 2001 NBA season is available to Latin America and Caribbean residents via DIRECTV in Latin America. The NBA League Pass is DIRECTV's featured package that allows subscribers an average viewing of two games per night. The NBA League Pass will be offered for promotional use to all DIRECTV subscribers in the region through Nov. 15.
Beginning today, DIRECTV
will begin offering local network channels in Greensboro, N.C., and San
Antonio.
Headend in the Sky, AT&T's digital satellite-to-cable distribution platform, launched a 13th transponder. The new pod has five channels: New Urban Entertainment Television (NUE-TV), Major Broadcasting Cable Network, The Word Network, GAC and ComedyNet.
The largest cable company serving Los Angeles, Adelphia Communications, has flipped the switch on the controversial pay-per-view Spice adult channel. The Health Network will replace Spice with intentions to freshen their channel lineup and family values.
The Federal Communications Commission, continuing its work to implement mandates
for the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act, adopted network program non-duplication,
syndicated program exclusivity and sports blackout rules.
EchoStar's DISH Network will add FOX Sports World to its America's Top 150 package beginning Nov. 8 at no additional cost to customers. The channel delivers exclusive sporting events from around the world, including soccer from the top leagues in Italy, Chile and Argentina. The net is best known for its carriage of England's Premier League.
Satellite has this year's election covered. Subscribers can get the latest news from CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC and MSNBC. In addition to television coverage, the nets also will have updates on their Web sites. And with last year's debut of local TV channels, subscribers can get information on local races by tuning into their ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC affiliates.
Go Racing - a joint venture owned by Arena Leisure, British Sky Broadcasting and Channel Four Television - is betting big on interactive horse racing in Britain. Horse racing in both the United Kingdom and United States is expected to grow dramatically due to broadband technology and interactive TV, which will allow viewers to place bets while watching races from home.
The retransmission consent skirmish developing between Comcast and Disney is taking a sour
turn, focusing on the cable giant's lock on Philadelphia sports programming.
Effective today, DIRECTV is delivering locals to
subscribers in the Birmingham, Ala., area.
EchoStar's DISH Network expanded delivery of Shop At Home. Under a new agreement, Shop At Home programming will be available 24 hours a day to DISH Network customers who subscribe to America's Top 40, America's Top 100 CD and America's Top 150 packages. The deal replaces an earlier agreement between the two companies that gave DISH Network preemptive rights to schedule other programs in place of Shop At Home.
Lifetime
Joins Breast Cancer Battle - Lifetime is joining the fight against
breast cancer this month, airing a series of specials on the network
devoted to the battle. This weekend, the top women in music, including
Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Amy Grant, Wynonna Judd and Cyndi
Lauper, will give a concert event and raise awareness for the fight.
The concert premieres Sunday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Time.
The ABC Cable Networks Group, ESPN
and ABC Television Network selected PanAmSat as the preferred provider
of global satellite television services during the next 15 years.
PanAmSat will expand domestic and international distribution of Disney
Channel, ESPN, SoapNet, Toon Disney and Buena Vista Television.
PanAmSat also becomes the preferred satellite television service
provider for the ABC Television Network and will provide special event
and occasional services for ABC and ESPN.
ONdigital, the U.K. terrestrial broadcaster competing directly with British Sky Broadcasting, said it will meet its key target of one million subscribers by the end of the year. ONdigital also said its subscriber base should reach two million by the end of 2002.
ESPN, Globosat Programadora and FOX Sports International have reached an agreement to create a new 24-hour sports network serving Brazil. ESPN's existing pan-regional network serving Brazil will be re-branded ESPN FOX Sports, and it will launch in early 2001. The new network will feature sports from the United States, Argentine and Chilean soccer and South American volleyball. Globosat will supply regional sports.
STARZ! Analog Movie Pack and Encore have relocated to Galaxy-10 at 123 West. Galaxy-10 is known as G0 in 4DTV receiver and G9 in older type receiver. If you do not currently have that satellite programmed. Please take a look at out Online C-Band Receiver Manuals for details on how to program the satellite. It is the next satellite up (East) from G5. You will find a listing for our STARZ! Package in our programming section. Click Here
The sky dance of the Galaxy satellites is almost at an end. Galaxy 4R has replaced Galaxy 11 and is the new permanent satellite at 99 degrees West. That change in early August was followed by the replacement of Galaxy 7 by Galaxy 11 as the new active satellite at 91 degrees West. Galaxy 6 at 74 degrees now is the PanAmSat fleets in-orbit spare.
Very quietly and without any announcement other than an on-screen message, adult service Spice returned to analog C-band on TVNs G301 in mid-August. It continues to remain available on TVNs digital G10327.
We have received numerous calls about NESN Not being available. Please be advise that the SSN Fox sports package was terminated on January 1st and NESN was part of that package but for some reason NESN decided to keep a free feed on F3-14. Ad of June 16 NESN is no longer available to C-Band Customers. And the only way to get it is with a small dish. Now keep in mind that the New Digital Sports package will be available July 1st and might have NESN is it. Read the previous announcements here Action Pay-Per-View Important Programming Changes! Important Programming information! Looking for the Outdoor Channel. Much Music Ending. Wanting more A&E and THE History Channel. KRMA Leaving. MTV 2 is changing transponder locations. Great News for C-Band Network
Subscribers! PrimeTime 24 Networks Customers who received PrimeTime 24 networks (CBS, FOX, NBC and/or ABC) and were involuntarily disconnected prior to October 31, 1999 will be able to receive their network signals again. The industry wide, network disconnects occurred in February and July of 1999. Customers must have confirmation of eligibility, by law, with General Instruments. Please note new PrimeTime 24 network customers are not automatically qualified under this ruling. In addition, the SHVA ruling does not apply to the ABC network for customers living within 75 miles of Raleigh. Denver Networks Customers who received the Denver networks (CBS, FOX, NBC and/or ABC) and were involuntarily disconnected prior to October 31, 1999 will be able to receive their network signals again. The industry wide, network disconnects occurred in February and July of 1999. Customers must have confirmation of eligibility, by law, with General Instruments. Please note unfortunately we cannot authorize new Denver network
subscribers.
The Box Music Network, an MTV Networks company, and ACTV's HyperTV Networks
announced on Tuesday the national roll-out of BOX FUSION. Powered by ACTV's HyperTV software, BOX
FUSION is a fully programmed interactive TV/web convergence service. Beginning April
10, The Box's cable viewers in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis,
MSNBC.com and Internet Broadcasting Systems reached an agreement to incorporate news content from 13 of IBS' local web channels into the MSNBC.com affiliate network. The partnership between IBS and MSNBC.com increases the reach of the MSNBC.com affiliate network to more than 90 local TV stations in the United States.
CNET Networks will provide its broadband content through AOL Plus to members of the Internet service with
high-speed access. AOL Plus, which can be downloaded by any AOL member using
AOL 5.0 software over a broadband connection, offers enhanced, rich
Fox Sports Net is staying analog at W3, 19,
at least for the time being.
On Monday, March 6, Galaxy X, a new dual C- and Ku-band satellite, replaced C-band satellite Galaxy 9 and Ku-band satellite SBS5 at 123 degrees west. Channels that were on Galaxy 9 have switched to Galaxy 10. Outdoor Channel plans to change transponders from 1 to 24 on Monday, March 13. Satellite ORBIT designates Galaxy X as G9, so dish owners do not have to reprogram their satellite receivers. Galaxy 9 is being moved from 123 degrees west to 127 degrees west (between G5 to the east and T7 to the west) and it will be used for additional C-band transmissions. Satellite ORBIT will designate Galaxy 9 at 127 degrees west as G0.
Free previews of Showtime Unlimiteds services that began Friday, March 10, continue through Sunday, March 12. Dish owners with at least one VideoCipher II Plus subscription (and a digitally authorized 4DTV receiver) will be able to watch free previews on Showtime, Showtime 2, Showtime 3, Showtime Extreme, Showtime Beyond, The Movie Channel, The Movie Channel 2 and Flix.
March 3, 2000 PrimeTime 24 has announced
that they are changing their FOX feed from FoxNet on Satcom F1, channel 19
to WSVN, FOX-Miami, which is located on GE4, channel 17. The switch occurs
at 10 p.m. ET on Friday, March 3. That puts all of PrimeTime 24's feeds on
one satellite.
This fall, HBO plans to launch HBO Latino. HBO Latino will air Spanish-language movies, sports-including boxing-and new and original programming. An exact launch date and satellite distribution has not been announced. It's very likely HBO Latino will be added to HBO's 4DTV channel lineup when it starts transmitting.
Effective Tuesday, February 15, PrimeTime 24 will switch satellite locations to the new GE4 satellite. WKRN-ABC (Nashville, TN) will move to channel 22, WNBC-NBC (New York, NY) will move to channel 18, and WSEE-CBS (Erie, PA) will move to channel 24. From February 15-26, both the old GE1 and the new GE4 locations will be illuminated. From February 26-29, the GE1 channels will carry a message notifying subscribers of the new locations. These changes will not affect the PT24 FoxNet feed which remains on Satcom C1, channel 19.
FOX Sports will eschew the C-band universe
altogether as of December 31, 1999, by shutting down all but two of its
big dish feeds and converting them to digital which they believe will
offer better back up, quality of service and security. The digital format
that FOX Sports has chosen is not compatible with any consumer satellite
receiver.
STARZ!/Encore Media Group inked a deal with Sony for first-run rights to the studio's
theatricals. Because of the new agreement, Sony opted not to renew its agreement with HBO. The new pact
with STARZ!/Encore, valued at $1.7 billion, starts in January 2005. Sony is expected to provide more than
Music Choice, a provider of commercial-free digital music via cable, satellite and the Internet, will feature Atlantic Records' Collective Soul for its February OnStage Concert. As part of the program, fans can enjoy a one-hour taped video performance via cable and the Internet, two free online music downloads, and a 30-minute audio profile.
BBC America, the U.S.-based channel carrying content from the British Broadcasting Corp., said its service now reaches 11 million subscribers. While the network gets cable carriage, the numbers also are helped by the two DBS services, EchoStar's DISH Network and DIRECTV.
Effective December, 30 1999, Starz! East and West, Starz! 2, and Westerns, formerly located on S-4 moved to the new feeds on G-6. Starz! East and West are now located at G6-17 and G6-18. Starz! 2 and Westerns are now located at G6-19 and G6-20.
Effective December 31, 1999, the SSN channels will no longer be available to C-Band customers. And effective, January 31, 2000, FOX Sports World will no
NBA basketball is in full swing, and the best place to follow all the backboard-bashing action is on TNT (G5-17) and TBS (G5-6). Click here for game schedules.
Follow the fast-paced action and drama on WGN, G5-7, as the legendary Chicago Bulls seek a return to playoff and championship contention during the
Tune in to ESPN, G5-9 and ESPN, G5-14, for a brand new National Hockey League season. Check out the over 100 games on ESPN and ESPN2.
Your network services have been saved due to the recent passing of the bill for the Satellite Home Viewer Act
(SHVA). Here's what it means for C-Band subscribers: |
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