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Jet Blue Directv lineup

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ansky212

I'm flying on JB for the first time tomorrow. I found their channel lineup online and I find it odd that they have no ABC affiliate. Does anyone know why? Are the other network affiliates from NYC?
 
Last time I flew JetBlue, NBC was WNBC, CBS was WCBS, Fox was WNYW and I believe CW was coming from WBDC. Why no ABC? No deal in place, apparently, which is odd since they do have several ESPN channels and I think Disney Channel as well.
 
Frontier has DirecTV too. What's annoying is flying mountain to west coast on an evening flight, and the primetime shows from the east coast feeds are already over. Jetblue is more east coast based so it might not affect as many people.
 
Does anyone know how the aircraft receives the DirecTV signal? I've always been impressed on how reliable the signal is. I would guess there is some buffering of the signal, but the local news always seems to come on reasonably on top of the hour.
 
Perhaps this might help:

How do your Airbus planes safely receive the DIRECTV® signals?

Directly, of course! DIRECTV® service in the air is basically the same as you get at home. A DIRECTV® dish or antenna is firmly attached on top of the airplane and receives a signal from a DIRECTV® satellite. The one special feature of our antenna is that it moves to keep the signal from the satellite connected while the aircraft is in motion.
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Source: Frontier Airlines website

Not really a "dish" in the traditional sense, though. More like those fancy domed things you find on many larger RVs these days. This Photo shows the antenna - it's right above the "R".
 
Joe_Capitano said:
Perhaps this might help:

How do your Airbus planes safely receive the DIRECTV® signals?

Directly, of course! DIRECTV® service in the air is basically the same as you get at home. A DIRECTV® dish or antenna is firmly attached on top of the airplane and receives a signal from a DIRECTV® satellite. The one special feature of our antenna is that it moves to keep the signal from the satellite connected while the aircraft is in motion.
Click to expand...
Source: Frontier Airlines website

Not really a "dish" in the traditional sense, though. More like those fancy domed things you find on many larger RVs these days. This Photo shows the antenna - it's right above the "R".
Click to expand...

Thanks, Joe! It is actually covered with a radome....
 
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