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local TV station hurricane coverage, on DIRECTV
DIRECTV use to provide the signals of local TV stations where a hurricane was at and they followed the track of the hurricane by switching to other TV stations in its track as the hurricane moved.
It was more interesting to get the info directly from the local TV stations in the of the area of where the storm were happening.
DIRECTV ,how come this is no longer done ?
Juniper
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4 years ago
DirecTV is only allowed to provide you locals for your Designated Market Area (DMA). Check www.directv.com/locals to verify what you should be getting. Since the STELAR Act expired last year, their permission to provide any out of DMA locals was taken away.
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alok
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4 years ago
Juniper,
You are correct, but that prevents them from showing an out of market station constanty, because then it is competing with your locals.
In the case of a disaster, DIRECTV did it in the past , then they stopped showing locals nationwide from the disaster area.
But I noted yesterday as the storm was hitting New Orleans they started to do it again and as of this morning 8/30 they are doing it on Channel 361-2.
Showing Biloxi,MS & Baton Rouge,LA stations. They were showing New Orleans TV stations until the entire city lost power, that is not because the local station lost power, they ( major stations ) have generators. I think they stopped showing New Orleans TV because the method that DIRECTV gets the signal to their uplink site in Colorado was effected. They usually do this via fiber from either the TV station itself or they pickup the station with an antenna, it varies from TV market to TV market.
Al
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