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  2. Satellite dish - Wikipedia

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    A satellite dish is a dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive or transmit information by radio waves to or from a communication satellite. The term most commonly means a dish which receives direct-broadcast satellite television from a direct broadcast satellite in geostationary orbit .

  3. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The service's "exclusive" high-definition channels were migrated to the Dish Network system. Commercial satellite TV services are the primary competition to cable television service, although the two types of service have significantly different regulatory requirements (for example, cable television has public access requirements, and the two ...

  4. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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    The reception of the channels carried on the K u-band FSS satellite's respective transponders has been achieved by both DirecTV & Dish Network issuing to their subscribers dishes twice as big in diameter (36") than the previous 18" (& 20" for the Dish Network "Dish500") dishes the services used initially, equipped with 2 circular-polarized ...

  5. Electronic program guide - Wikipedia

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    In 1981, United Video Satellite Group launched the first EPG service in North America, a cable channel known simply as The Electronic Program Guide.It allowed cable systems in the United States and Canada to provide on-screen listings to their subscribers 24 hours a day (displaying programming information up to 90 minutes in advance) on a dedicated cable channel.

  6. List of free-to-air channels at Astra 28.2°E (Ireland and the ...

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    A satellite minidish. This is a list of the free-to-air channels that are currently available via satellite from SES Astra satellites (Astra 2E/2F/2G) at orbital position 28.2 °E, serving Ireland and the United Kingdom. Sky and Freesat use these satellites to deliver their channels. If one was to change providers between Sky and Freesat, one ...

  7. Voom HD Networks - Wikipedia

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    Voom HD Networks was a suite of 25 original high-definition television channels owned by AMC Networks.The channels were produced in Crystal Clear Hi-Definition with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and were the largest suite of HD channels in the world [1] as part of a 15-year agreement between AMC Networks and Dish Network.

  8. List of Paramount channels - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... formerly Prevue Guide/Channel, TV Guide Channel/Network and TVGN ... 2009 on Dish Network) VH1 Uno (2000 ...

  9. TV listings - Wikipedia

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    Sales of TV Guide began to reverse course with the 4–10 September 1953, "Fall Preview" issue, which had an average circulation of 1,746,327 copies; by the mid-1960s, TV Guide had become the most widely circulated magazine in the United States. [9] Print TV listings were a common feature of newspapers from the late-1950s to the mid-2000s.