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Network Affiliates on C-Band and Ku-Band Satellite

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JosephH1998

as for the old C-Band Satellite lineup back then (1997), they had PT24 (which was also carried on DirecTV until approx. 1999) consisting of ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates (WSEE (CBS-East), WNBC (NBC-East), WKRN (ABC-East), KOMO (ABC-West), KNBC (NBC-West), KPIX (CBS-West) etc...), the Tribune Broadcasting pack (mainly WB affiliates KTLA/Los Angeles, KWGN/Denver (also part of the "Denver 5"), WGN/Chicago, WPIX/New York etc...) and FoxNet (the national feed of the Fox Broadcasting Co. for those that didn't have an affiliate) which was fed on Spacenet 4, Transponder 21 (also carried on DirecTV, until Feb. 1999, when they replaced it with KTTV (Fox-West) and WNYW (Fox-East)) I also know they carried KTVU (Fox-West) until the late 1990s, which was also carried on Primestar. I wonder what Fox affiliates they carried back in then?
 
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KTVU wasn't on C-Band satellite, just Primestar. They also carried WTXF Philadelphia. The only Fox station on the big dish was the national feed, which was actually on Spacenet 4, transponder 10 (and prior to that was on Galaxy 3). Majority of commercials were direct-response or promos, they were not like WGN with a lot of national advertisers (y'know, cars, grocery products, sodas). Primestar signals were DBS and encrypted, not available to a C-band subscriber, like DirecTV/Dish.
 
KDVR would have been on C-band as one of the "Denver 5". I think there are systems in Montana that still carry KDVR today! When it came to UPN, I think WSBK and/or WWOR were on C-band
 
Well here is a satellite chart as of July 1997 (edit: dammit....uploading the pic shrinks it to basically nothing). Here are the hilites

Lots of FOX feeds on 89W :) Tp 1, 5, 13 (West), 17, 20, 23 (East)

UPN had wild feeds on 99W but no full time station TP 10 labelled as "UPN Network Feeds" and 22 labelled "Paramount Feeds o/v"

PT24 East on 103W...PT West on 101W. Only one FOX Net feed
East was WNBC NBC NY, WJLA ABC DC and WRAL CBS Raleigh
West was KNBC NBC LA , KOMO ABC Seattle and KPIX CBS SF
FOXNet says "FOXNET PT24 E/W"

Denver 5 was now Denver 6...all on 137W
KMGH ABC TP 2
KRMA PBS TP 3
KDVR FOX TP 5
KCNC CBS TP 6
KUSA NBC TP 14
KWGN IND TP 23

Also FOXNET 2nd feed was on TP19
 
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No, not true. You could have seen Star Trek: Voyager, Moesha, etc. on C-Band without using the wild feeds. You just had to subscribe to the superstations and WSBK Boston was on GE-3, transponder 3. WWOR, not so much, as they were EMI service up to 1997 or 1998, but the 'real' WWOR came back around that time on GE-4, transponder 14 (where the West Primetime 24 was located). I still find it interesting that KOMO was uplinked for many years nationwide, what used to be my local ABC!
 
I stand corrected. WSBK was on 87W TP3.
As for WWOR in 1997 it was on 101W (which was Spacenet 4 at the time) ;) TP14 was WWOR UPN (it doesnt say WWOR EMI on the chart)

But they DID have feeds on 99W as according to the satellite chart I am looking at from July 1997
 
Nice to know! well they only had FOXNET (so thanks for the information) and KDVR/Denver (now "the Denver 6"), well aside from the Tribune Broadcasting "pack" (KWGN/Denver, KTLA/Los Angeles, WGN/Chicago, WPIX/New York etc...) which was their WB choices and the satellite feed (which was shared with Warner Bros. Television for their syndicated feeds) which was on Galaxy 4, transponder 21 (then moved to Galaxy 6, transponder 7 after the Galaxy 4 communications were lost in May 1998). what WB affiliates did C-Band carry at the time.
 
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WB feeds were on G4 TP7 back in 1997
The 3 Tribune stations (KTLA, WPIX and KWGN) were all WB affiliates back then but remember back in those days WB didnt have a nightly schedule. It was Monday, Wednesday and Sunday nights in 1997
 
Reminds me of something...a fellow YouTuber uploaded a block of commercials from a 7th Heaven episode, apparently taped off the WB raw feed in 1997 (I think). In the 'black' for local ads were several still shots of Michigan J. Frog. I'm guessing whoever taped it, used the wild feed because WGN had basketball or baseball.
 
this is nice! but does anyone have more C-Band/4DTV footage from '97, virtually few of it can be found online. I guess most people are afraid to put their videos on Youtube because of fear of copyright.
 
is there anyone else still with me? didn't they carry WTMJ/Milwaukee in the late 90s, I'm asking because of a video on Youtube :)watch?v=F2DBHIt6xio).
 
I assume the WTMJ was a wild/backhaul feed for their newscast, for a satellite truck or such. They were never carried on the big dish.

In the late 1980s, the Primetime 24 network service began with:
F2-2 WBBM Chicago (CBS)
F2-4 WABC New York (ABC)
F2-12 WXIA Atlanta (NBC) - Satcom F2 on all of those. I have a couple of movies taped off the Primetime 24 feeds of WBBM and WABC.

At the same time, there was Denver's affiliates, all on Satcom F1R:
F1R-2 KUSA Denver (ABC)
F1R-4 KCNC Denver (NBC)
F1R-6 KMGH Denver (CBS)
F1R-12 KRMA Denver (PBS)
F1R-14 KWGN Denver (IND)
F1R-20 KDVR Denver (FOX) which was pulled off prior to 1991, and wasn't on the big dish again until 1994 or so. On the big dish, you could watch Foxnet for Fox programming, starting in 1991.
 
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