Directv broadcasting substations

[TC99]

Is there any market that Directv broadcasts the sub stations (ie 10.2, 10.3) of the local stations that you could get OTA if you had a digital attenna?

Does any cable network do this?

 

[kenglish]

I think that the satellite companies run a few of the national feeds of sub-channel type programming nets, but not the locals themselves.
Comcast seems to be pretty good about carrying most all of the sub-channels, on their cable systems.

 

[ansky212]

All the cable companies I'm aware of broadcast subchannels. Directv does not, and never has. I believe it has to do with the way they receive programming from the local affiliates. Does Directv still make receivers where you can plug in an antenna? I remember that being the only way you could get subchannels integrated with Directv.

 

[gbranch]

Directv in Tyler-Longview, TX previously carried sub-channel KYTX 19.2 when it was UPN, then RTV, then Me-TV. When London Broadcasting swapped Me-TV and CW+ between 19.2 and KCEB 54.1 earlier this summer, Directv retained Me-TV programming from KCEB.

Directv still sells the AM-21 and AM-21N, which are dual ATSC tuners that integrate local off-air channels into the EPG when using an HD receiver or DVR.

 

[vchimpanzee]

All the cable companies I'm aware of broadcast subchannels. Directv does not, and never has. I believe it has to do with the way they receive programming from the local affiliates. Does Directv still make receivers where you can plug in an antenna? I remember that being the only way you could get subchannels integrated with Directv.

But what if you live too far away or the terrain keeps an antenna from working? In that case there ought to be a way. People living in the boondocks are more likely to have dishes.

 

[Mr Tony]

Directv does not, and never has.

sure they do. If the subchannel is one of the Big4 nets it most definitely is carried.
If its CW or My it usually is too

In the cases of the 1st one (big4) they just use a different number. As example in Mankato, MN they have CBS main Fox subchannel. CBS is on 12 (they're actual number) and Fox is on 13 (cable uses same number)
Duluth, MN both companies carry CW which is KDLH-DT2. Directv on 7 Dish on 11

Minneapolis they carry the Minnesota Channel which is a PBS subchannel. They actually carry it as 17-2

But they dont have to carry subchannels normally and that has to do with bandwidth

 

[fybush]

All the cable companies I'm aware of broadcast subchannels. Directv does not, and never has. I believe it has to do with the way they receive programming from the local affiliates. Does Directv still make receivers where you can plug in an antenna? I remember that being the only way you could get subchannels integrated with Directv.

There's no technical reason Dish or Direct can't carry a different stream of programming. Most of Dish and Direct's local POPs (points of presence) receive local signals over the air, and the decoder boxes they use can just as easily tune to XX.2 or XX.3 as to XX.1. Those local signals are then backhauled to Dish or Direct's national master control by fiber, and that scales up pretty easily for additional signals, too. The real limitation, I suspect, is the amount of satellite bandwidth available for the downlink. I doubt either service is in a position to add 300 or 400 more local-into-local streams, even SD ones, and so rather than adding a few, they typically add none. The only exceptions seem to be when one of the "big 4" is on a subchannel; those services do seem to get Dish/Direct carriage, eventually.

 

[mgsports]

Comcast Olathe/MO doesn't carry Live Well Network yet because doesn't have KMCI HD yet.

Where The Colts play gets Digital Sub Channels on S. Dish.