EchoStar 25 @110W as early as 1st Quarter 2026.

[MikeD-C05]

Compression.

Lots of mpeg 4 compression.

 

[MikeD-C05]

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And, while again unlikely they'll get them anytime soon, there are those last 3 x-ponders D* is sitting on doing absolutely nothing with!

Maybe Charlie plans on buying up Directv and the satellites transponders by this time next year and then he gets all the transponders to himself. DISH will be in a better place to buy it by then and probably even has the money to do it without financing , once his deals with Space X and ATT go through,

 

[navychop]

I understand there is a massive buggy whip factory up for sale, quite reasonably priced.

 

[rocatman]

This is going to be fascinating on how Dish is going to pull this off with the transponder space they have. I am assuming there is no way they will get their hands on the 11 transponders on 119 that are licensed to DirecTV. When they got rid of 129 the easy piece was to eliminate the SD duplicate channels and change all remaining SD channels to MPEG4.

Right now, Dish has the following:

119 (21 licensed transponders)
12 spotbeam transponders (TP 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13)
9 CONUS transponders (TP 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
(transponders 22-32 are DirecTV)

110 (28 licensed transponders)
9 spotbeam transponders (TP 12, 18, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31)
19 CONUS transponders (TP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22)
(transponders 28, 30, 32 are DirecTV)

You can see what I am thinking through. You can easily move the 12 spotbeam transponders to the 19 ConUS transponders. But if 110 is going to be all spotbeam, you have to move 19 ConUS to 12 slots on 119?

I mentioned in another thread, but I wouldn't be surprised if someday NBA League Pass, Center Ice, and Extra Innings go to a streaming only model, and the PPV's do that as well. Right now there are almost 5 full ConUS transponders used for that - 3 that are only used for the live sport events and 2 for the PPV movies and some other random channels. That would get you down to 14 transponders for 12 slots, and some other optimization would get it down.

Who has license to TP 24 at 110W ? I believe it is Dish but it is not in the list provided. Perhaps is reserving this as a spare or the satellites at 119W have a problem with TP 24.

 

[zippyfrog]

Who has license to TP 24 at 110W ? I believe it is Dish but it is not in the list provided. Perhaps is reserving this as a spare or the satellites at 119W have a problem with TP 24.

Dish has it. I might have just missed typing it.

And checking my post, I just missed typing it. Dish currently uses 110 TP 24 for PPV movies and the out of market sports packages (like MLB Extra Innings)