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Past AT&T contract disputes with WRAL and with the CBS 17 parent company lasted for nearly three months. Will outages go that long this time?
The DirecTV snafu comes on the heels of an outage for AT&T mobile customers last week affecting more than 70,000 users and resulting in the company offering $5 refunds to affected customers.
DirecTV-1R was launched on October 9, 1999, aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL launch vehicle. It was the first satellite used to broadcast local channels for DirecTV in major DMAs , and was positioned at 101.2° W when it first entered service. [ 29 ]
Unable to reach a deal, Disney's content went dark on DirecTV Sunday, leaving more than 11 million pay-TV subscribers unable to watch ESPN and ESPN2 just as the college and pro football seasons ...
Analog DBS services, however, existed prior to DirecTV and were still operational in continental Europe until April 2012. [1] At the time of DirecTV's launch in 1994, the DVB-S digital satellite system in use in the majority of the world had not yet been standardised, the Thomson developed DSS system was used instead.
To the receiver, a signal from a single-frequency network appears as a single broadcast with strong multipath interference; in the worst case, it is detected as a main signal and a reflection both of equal strength as signals arrive from multiple transmitters to the same intermediate location at slightly different times.
ESPN and other Disney-owned networks went dark in DirecTV homes early Sunday evening after the sides failed to reach a new carriage agreement to replace the one that expired earlier in the day.
The serial DCD pin can be used to accurately detect a PPS signal, as described in RFC 2783: [1] One convenient means to provide a PPS signal to a computer system is to connect that signal to a modem-control pin on a serial-line interface to the computer. The Data Carrier Detect (DCD) pin is frequently used for this purpose.