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October 11th, 2009

HD HBO on C-Band will change format

The HBO-HD channels on Satellite G9-118 and 120 are being moved to a new broadcast format by HBO and they will no longer be available to c-band subscribers. Unfortunately, Omegasource and our US programming suppliers have no control over this.  

The channels were included as part of the HBO service, and Customers could get them for no extra charge if they had an HDD-200 decoder.  

There will be no credit issued for these channels, as they were just provided as part of the 27 channel HBO/Max service.  

We apologize to all customers that are affected and upset about the loss of these channels, but we were told, that there were no additional charges for the HD service and there will be no credits. Only requirement to receive them in HD format was to hook up a HDD-200 Motorola HD decoder.  

 

This change will occur 10-16-2009.

October 11th, 2009

A&E Biography and A&E History International out of C-Band

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Due to some contractual problems we are no longer offering A&E Biography or A&E History International on C-Band.  These channels were located on W5 – 610 and 611, respectively.

We will be deauthorizing all units who are authorized to these channels.

We are apologizing for this inconvenience as we can not do anything about this.
We will post more details as more information becomes available.

October 6th, 2009

This week Solar Outages !

This week and next week will be the peak of the solar outage season for this fall.

C-band customer’s will experience periods once a day , lasting approx. 20min. when all the channels on a particular satellite will become scrambled with different colors or go off completely. This is caused when that particular dish is directly aligned with the satellite and the sun. The satellite signal at that particular time is overwhelmed by the radiation from the sun until they move out of  alignment. The outage will occur on that same satellite at that exact time every day for about a week.