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What's On, Transponder and channel support
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Which are the satellites used for cable and freeview feeds?
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<blockquote data-quote="Fisty McB" data-source="post: 1081842" data-attributes="member: 389824"><p>Channel Five's analogue terrestrial network was (mostly) fed via satellite as well, pretty much from the start. IIRC they used two separate satellite positions out in the Atlantic, 18W & 37.5W if I'm right though they might have moved to a different nearby position at some point. At the time, they had advertising regions like Channel 4 with two regions on one satellite and the other two regions on the other. The satellite feeds were in DVB-S MPEG2 encrypted. A few weeks after they had launched, a thunderstorm near their main transmitter site serving Greater London (Croydon) affected reception of the satellite link, resulting in viewers there trying to watch a movie in the evening that kept breaking up. Sections of the press ridiculed Channel 5 for this even though the issue was (AFAIK) just confined to London, resulting in the broadcaster upgrading the link to Croydon to a landline connection not long after, likely fibre optic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fisty McB, post: 1081842, member: 389824"] Channel Five's analogue terrestrial network was (mostly) fed via satellite as well, pretty much from the start. IIRC they used two separate satellite positions out in the Atlantic, 18W & 37.5W if I'm right though they might have moved to a different nearby position at some point. At the time, they had advertising regions like Channel 4 with two regions on one satellite and the other two regions on the other. The satellite feeds were in DVB-S MPEG2 encrypted. A few weeks after they had launched, a thunderstorm near their main transmitter site serving Greater London (Croydon) affected reception of the satellite link, resulting in viewers there trying to watch a movie in the evening that kept breaking up. Sections of the press ridiculed Channel 5 for this even though the issue was (AFAIK) just confined to London, resulting in the broadcaster upgrading the link to Croydon to a landline connection not long after, likely fibre optic. [/QUOTE]
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