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vtown7:
Ah G7-6.  Thanks for the memories (and my tolerant friends with their dishes up here in the Great White North).

Salut,

Ryan :)

dzinkin:
Just found this in rec.video.satellite.tvro -- I've removed some header lines for brevity but the message body is intact.

 - David

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From: Jeff Wildman <JeffWld@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite.tvro
Subject: GSN Move
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:30:35 EST

Game Show Network's migration from analog to digital has placed it on 4DTV X4 channel 643. Digital service began officially on March 1, and it is now in the channel maps. Analog service ceases on March 8.

rugrats1:

--- Quote ---Game Show Network's migration from analog to digital has placed it on 4DTV X4 channel 643. Digital service began officially on March 1, and it is now in the channel maps. Analog service ceases on March 8.
--- End quote ---


--- Quote ---"Effective March 8, 2004, GSN will no longer be available on C-Band. Contact your local satellite dealer for details".
--- End quote ---

This means that GSN hadn't left C-Band -- it merely swapped analog for digital.

Many non-techies say that when a channel moves from C-band analog to C-band digital, they say that it's leaving C-Band entirely. Like cable TV, which has analog and digital services, industrial C-band and Ku-Band satellites also have both analog and digital capabilities.

Saying that a channel has moved from C-Band completely is practically like saying that it's removed from cable completely, even though it swapped the method of delivery along the same "pipe" as before.

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