RT International

[mrwish]

France-based Globecast was the provider for the RT transmissions via Astra 19.2°E and Eutelsat 13°E at least (which are also now off-air), and possibly for the Astra 2 version seen in the UK as well. (You can't tell this from the DVB "provider" info as you can with 19.2°E/13°E as this is always set to "BSkyB" on 28.2°E due to technical requirements of the Sky UK platform).

This could have been the "French satellite" that Nadine Dorries was referring to, despite the satellites themselves being owned by Luxembourg's SES.

[Worzel]

Here's a friend of mine's take on it all, a good round up:

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2022/03/...in-the-uk/

[Markymark]

This could have been the "French satellite" that Nadine Dorries was referring to, despite the satellites themselves being owned by Luxembourg's SES.

France, Luxembourg, Andorra, The Vatican, it's all much the same to Nadders

[dvboy]

Here's a friend of mine's take on it all, a good round up:

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2022/03/...in-the-uk/

Minor pedantry, but you should tell your friend that SD is not analogue.

[Brekkie]

Is it likely the HD feed would be through a different company than the SD feed?

[JayCasey]

Is it likely the HD feed would be through a different company than the SD feed?

I doubt it, however should this have been as a result of the Sat Operator taking action (SES Astra), then communicating with the satellite isn't just a case of clicking a button on a computer. So the pattern of SD dropping first, followed by HD makes sense in that they have to communicate with the satellite to do so.

[News Engineer]

Is it likely the HD feed would be through a different company than the SD feed?

I doubt it, however should this have been as a result of the Sat Operator taking action (SES Astra), then communicating with the satellite isn't just a case of clicking a button on a computer. So the pattern of SD dropping first, followed by HD makes sense in that they have to communicate with the satellite to do so.

Being picky - wouldn’t they just have removed it from from the multiplex before it was uplinked to the satellite? Might not have needed any change on the satellite itself.

[JayCasey]

Is it likely the HD feed would be through a different company than the SD feed?

I doubt it, however should this have been as a result of the Sat Operator taking action (SES Astra), then communicating with the satellite isn't just a case of clicking a button on a computer. So the pattern of SD dropping first, followed by HD makes sense in that they have to communicate with the satellite to do so.

Being picky - wouldn’t they just have removed it from from the multiplex before it was uplinked to the satellite? Might not have needed any change on the satellite itself.

It's dependent on whether Globecast cut the feed, or whether SES Astra did. If Globecast did, then it's just a dead stream at the satellite, but if SES Astra did, it would involve what I said before.

Quite complex stuff all this transmission lark!

[i.h]

Is it likely the HD feed would be through a different company than the SD feed?

pure speculation but I'm going to say yes, possibly. Aside from RT being explicitly listed as a globecast customer for the HD channel but not SD, the way the channels were removed was done differently. HD simply had the DVB streams removed from the multiplex, SD kept them up but went to a black screen and tone (and still is)

nothing's happened at a satellite/transponder level, just the contents within

edit: taking a look with TSreader, the PMT for RT HD is still there but none of the elementary streams for it are there anymore

[Markymark]

Quite complex stuff all this transmission lark!

As S4C discovered on the night of the Red Bee catastrophe

[CantGetIn]

Did anyone manager to
Catch the switch off on free view?

[News Engineer]

Did anyone manager to
Catch the switch off on free view?

The Freeview HD switch off:

https://twitter.com/tweetsp0rt/status/14...97696?s=21

[Inspector Sands]

Being picky - wouldn’t they just have removed it from from the multiplex before it was uplinked to the satellite? Might not have needed any change on the satellite itself.

It's dependent on whether Globecast cut the feed, or whether SES Astra did. If Globecast did, then it's just a dead stream at the satellite, but if SES Astra did, it would involve what I said before.

Quite complex stuff all this transmission lark!

There's no way that SES would have done anything, the transport stream that is sent to the satellite is a multiplex of several channels and is created by whichever companies are handling the channel's distribution and uplink. If the channel line up needs changing then its up to either the transport stream or the metadata that accompanies it to be changed.

The satellite owner can't do it unless they just switched off the whole transponder and that affects everything on it. That's not the way it will have been done

[Inspector Sands]

Is it likely the HD feed would be through a different company than the SD feed?

Yes, very likely. It depends on what space was available when the services launched.

[Sky303]

RT America has been dropped from Roku as well

https://deadline.com/2022/03/directv-dro...234968328/