| moderator | Welcome to the monthly c-band chat. We would like to welcome your questions. |
| Mike_Mountford | Hi everyone! |
| wtkflhn | Mike. It looks like the troops are kinda thin this month! |
| Mike_Mountford | It's the world of C-Band these days |
| wtkflhn | Thakns for getting NFL fixed so fast!! |
| Mike_Mountford | You're welcome |
| 4dtv | anything new with getting any channels? |
| Mike_Mountford | Right now we're concentrating on getting the remaining analog channels onto digital and renewing contracts with many who are currently up there |
| Lobo | What news about IPTV? |
| Mike_Mountford | There is no new news with IPTV. We are investigating another possible single satellite solution for C-Band. |
| Lobo | How are you going to handle baseball blackouts on TBS next season, because you said that you will re-uplink it? |
| Mike_Mountford | I believe the folks in Atlanta will either control that or work with us to control it. |
| 4dtv | is that the HITS feeds using the Starchoice receivers? |
| Mike_Mountford | Yes, that's what we're working on. |
| wtkflhn | TBS has Blackouts? I thought those were national games. |
| Mike_Mountford | I don't know for sure. Until we have to get into it, we won't know. |
| 4dtv | cool would be nice to aceess all the HITS channels on there few satellites. |
| Lobo | Will the Turner networks be available in mini-packs? Or will they be available on an Ultimate Digital package only? |
| Mike_Mountford | Depending upon the channel it'll probably be in most all of our digital packages. |
| moderator | Are there any other questions from the room? |
| 4dtv | will the HITS feeds include the HD ones? |
| Mike_Mountford | all the HD ones which a 4DTV receiver can get...which is not many, unfortunately. |
| 4dtv | I mean with a Starchoice clone box? |
| Mike_Mountford | I don't know at this time. |
| Lobo | Keep up with the good work at NPS. |
| Mike_Mountford | Thank you. We're trying. |
| 4dtv | Try to push for getting allthe HITS feeds on all the birds this will keep C band alive and well into the future! |
| Mike_Mountford | Okay! We are working on it! |
| wtkflhn | Amen to that.. |
| 4dtv | Great Mike |
| Lobo | Do you know the posible locations for the analog channels that will go digital on new years day? |
| Mike_Mountford | Are you asking for the transponder assignments for the digital channels? |
| Lobo | Yes |
| Mike_Mountford | I don't know the channel assignments, but the turner channels would be on our C3 satellite where our uplink channels are. As for the weather channel...I don't know. |
| wtkflhn | I think cNN is in the HITS feeds on W5. |
| Mike_Mountford | Well, if that's the case we won't need to uplink them...that would be great. |
| 4dtv | CNN is on a hits feed its megapipe though... |
| Mike_Mountford | Megapipe won't work |
| wtkflhn | They will have to be mapped for us. I did see CNN listed on the HITS website. |
| 12345 | did you mean g3 to uplink them on |
| Mike_Mountford | Yes, I meant G3 |
| wtkflhn | It's listed with other chanels we're getting. I don't think it's megapipe. |
| Mike_Mountford | Well, I'll find out for certain. |
| 4dtv | quite a few HITS channels are out there although at least 40 to 50% are Megapipe. |
| Mike_Mountford | Yes, I know. We won't limit ourselves just to the HITS channels. The C-Band user has always wanted the option of scanning the skies and we want to keep it that way. |
| 4dtv | It's a shame some companies wont sell us the C band Masters like Disney, Viacom and NBC Universal. |
| Mike_Mountford | Just as a point of clarification, Viacom and NBC Cable have not withheld anything from C-Band that made sense to us. |
| 12345 | will the new receiver be able to get megapipe feeds |
| Mike_Mountford | We don't even know if there's a new receiver. In fact, probably not. If we do have a HITS solution it will probably be with a currrent receiver that they have. |
| moderator | If there are no more questions from the room, we will wrap up for the day. Thank you for your participation. |
| 4dtv | Yes but Viacom turned off the MTV suite and the USA masters were never given to us. |
| Mike_Mountford | I'm not sure what you mean by the USA Masters and we are still getting most of the MTV Suite along with several other programs from Viacom. |
Excerpt from a private message chat: [GHS] Hi Mike. First off thanks for the fast work on getting NFL Network SD back of after it was off because of they swiched transponders; I would like to know did the ACC decide to stop the analog channels OR was it the programmers themselves? [Mike_Mountford] It was the ACC, but it would have happened anyhow. [GHS] Does that mean there will be NO analog at the current analog channel locations or will they still be broadcasting but us C-band subscribers can’t get them? [Mike_Mountford] I don’t believe that Turner will continue to broadcast analog channels which would leave only the weather channel and I’m not sure about their intentions. [GHS] Mike can you talk to the weather channel people and see if they will use the current analog location on C3 to do a digital SD and HD channels in split mode so that C-band can subscribe to the SD AND the HD. [Mike_Mountford] It’s something I can ask them but I don’t’ think that our number of subs would make it economically viable for them. |
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