DIRECTV Transponder Map ~ Data 6/12/2024 (2024)

KyL416 said:

especially since this fall Adult Swim will start at 6pm ET

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Would that mean Toonami (the anime block on Saturday nights) starts earlier as well? I believe it currently starts at midnight so would it start at 10pm every Sat. night after they do this move?

KyL416 said:

Hopefully this means the national feed is on its way to going live soon

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MeTV is a Weigel network, so do you know if it’s contractually tied to the contracts of Weigel’s broadcast stations?

Weigel doesn't negotiate on behalf of its 3rd party affiliates, it's up to the station owner to opt for free must carry status or negotiate carriage if they opted for retrans consent payments.

Looking back, KMYA was dropped in June 2019, but no ALERT/INFO channel ever went up explaining why. According to their FCC filings, they spent most of the repack on an interim 10 kW facility and didn't return to full power until 2022, so it might have been because DIRECTV's local receive facility couldn't get their signal anymore.

KyL416 said:

so it might have been because DIRECTV's local receive facility couldn't get their signal anymore

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So they could have just put up an info/ALERT channel reading something like “Due to DirecTV technical limitations, KMYA is no longer available”. And i doubt they’d bother to make and put up a slide explaining so on the channel, so they could have had it in guide data and display Ku offline slate when tuned in

KyL416 said:

Weigel doesn't negotiate on behalf of its 3rd party affiliates, it's up to the station owner to opt for free must carry status or negotiate carriage if they opted for retrans consent payments.

Looking back, KMYA was dropped in June 2019, but no ALERT/INFO channel ever went up explaining why. According to their FCC filings, they spent most of the repack on an interim 10 kW facility and didn't return to full power until 2022, so it might have been because DIRECTV's local receive facility couldn't get their signal anymore.

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Couldn’t they have tried obtaining it from Sheridan translator KMYA-LD? RabbitEars says it transmits at 15 kW, just above the 10 kW that interim facility KMYA TV used.

KyL416 said:

KMYA/49 is now live, but in a major oops, they forgot to limit its HD feed to Little Rock's market 112, so everyone sees it in their guide with either a 771 searching for sat signal or 727 not available in your area message.

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It’s even showing on the online guide as well

KyL416 said:

KMYA/49 is now live, but in a major oops, they forgot to limit its HD feed to Little Rock's market 112, so everyone sees it in their guide with either a 771 searching for sat signal or 727 not available in your area message.

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I don’t think such situation has happened with a local channel addition before, has it?

Yes, this has happened before. A case like this generates 771 reports from all over the country.

If you check out the 6/14/23 TPN Map, note that the *Test record for KMYA/49 HD does not have the market 112 number delimiter assigned. That small omission made it a ‘50-States’ channel which is then included in all Guides instead of the just the Guide for Market 112.

As KyL416 pointed out, “Oops”!

Gary Toma said:

Yes, this has happened before. A case like this generates 771 reports from all over the country.

If you check out the 6/14/23 TPN Map, note that the *Test record for KMYA/49 HD does not have the market 112 number delimiter assigned. That small omission made it a ‘50-States’ channel which is then included in all Guides instead of the just the Guide for Market 112.

As Kyl416 pointed out, “Oops”!

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Ironically enough, the signal for another Little Rock station, KATV/7, was once received as north as Connecticut!

On July 6, 2004, a spectacular intense high MUF Sporadic-E opening allowed Mike Bugaj to receive KATV in Enfield, Connecticut, 1,176 miles (1,893 km) from Little Rock.

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DirecTVFanSince2016 said:

you’re wrong.

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The online guide is NOT a 100% match for the APG data, and things frequently change, so just because something wasn't there when you checked this morning doesn't mean "I'm wrong" and it wasn't there overnight when I checked.

i.e. In the APG data CMT SD (943), SBNHD (278), ACCUHD (184), COMTVH (134), NTEL (487), ZooMoo (39), BDMX (478), DEPE (436), NVTV (315), EWTNES (196), the SNYs (72), the MASNs (786), RAI (328), NECOHD (201) all have their actual logo_ids, while the website's data has them all mapped to chLogoId 0

DirecTVFanSince2016 said:

They just went down a couple minutes ago (Access Denied error) so they’re likely fixing that.

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It didn't go down, the site has Akamai flood protection enabled, and because of how horribly coded it is, your IP address can easily get blacklisted for a few minutes if you scroll the guide too fast because you flood their server with rapid requests.

KyL416 said:

and because of how horribly coded it is

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They should just give up that guide and switch to a version of the guide the web version of DirecTV Stream has. Kind of like what they did with their mobile apps a year ago.