What programming is at 61.5°W and 148°?

The Dish Network User's Resource

Dish Network offers the following programming at 61.5° and 148° West Longitude:

Instructions for adding a dish pointing at 61.5° (or 148°) can be found HERE

Available to all customers:

• 1 PPV Movie Channel
• 2 Sports PPV Channels
• 1 PPV Barker channel for international programming
• 2 International Free preview channels (available to specified customers and changes monthly)

Free to all America's Top 100, America's Top 200, America's Top 250, America's Everything Pack, and Dish Latino Max subscribers.  Also available free of charge to any Dish Network and Sky Angel subscribers on request.

• 7 Public Interest Channels
  • US Dept of Health & Human Services Channel
  • The Pentagon Channel
  • Classic Arts Showcase
  • Starfish TV Network (and 129° not 148°)
  • Almavisión (and 129° not 148°)
  • Good Samaritan Network
  • Educator TV (and 129° not 148°)
  • Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
  • 3 Angels Broadcasting (and 129° not 148°)

High Definition ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox for the following cities**:

• New York
• Boston
• Philadelphia
• Washington, DC

Many High Definition Package Channels (also available at 129)*

• A&E HD
• Food Network HD
• HGTV HD
• ESPN 2 HD
• National Geographic HD
• NFL Network HD
• Starz HD (part of the Starz Package only)
• Cinemax HD (Part of the Cinemax package only)
• Universal HD
• Golf Channel/Versus HD (Split channel from the programmer)
• MHD (Music HD, a combo of MTV, VH1 and CMT)
• Discovery HD (not HD Theater.  That channel is at 110°)
• TLC HD
• The Science Channel HD
• History Channel HD
• TBS HD
• Big Ten Network HD plus 5 alternate HD channels for game day.
• NHL Center Ice HD channels
• Voom channels
  • Animania HD
  • Equator HD
  • Family HD
  • Gallery HD
  • Game Play HD
  • Kung Fu HD
  • HD News
  • Film Fest HD
  • HDMonster Movies
  • HDRave
  • HDRush
  • HD Treasure
  • HDUltra HD
  • World Cinema HD
  • World Sport HD
• Part Time Regional Sports Networks (RSN).  Available at 61.5° ONLY
  The professional sports on all RSNs are only available to the "local" area the team claims.  Though the channels can be received nationally, Dish Network must black out the games themselves for "out of area" subscribers.
  • Sun Sports
  • Fox Sports Florida
  • Comcast Sports Net Mid Atlantic
  • Fox Sports Pittsburgh (also at 129°)
  • SportsNet New York
• Setanta Sports (standard Definition) (Also a 110°)

Niche English Language Muslim Channel

• Bridges TV

Foreign language programming on a subscription basis (rates vary depending on
the package) in the following languages:

• Arabic
  • Aljazeera
  • Al Zikr (Audio Only)
  • ART America
  • ART Movies
  • ART Music (Audio Only)
  • LBC
  • Nile TV
  • ESC Egyptian Satellite Channel
  • Future TV
  • Emirates Dubai TV
  • MBC
• Chinese
  • Asia TV (Hong Kong--not to be confused with TV Asia from India) (Cantonese)
  • Central China Television (Mainland Government Run) (Mandarin)
  • Phoenix TV (mainly Mandarin--some Cantonese and other dialects)
• French
  • Radio France International (Audio Only)
  • TV 5
  • Telesud (Africa)
  • Trace TV
• Greek
  • Antenna
  • ERT
  • MEGAcosmos
• Guijarati
  • Zee Guijarati
• Hebrew
  • The Israeli Network
• Hindi
  • Aajtak
  • B4U
  • Headlines Today
  • Sahara Samay Rashtriya
  • Sony Entertainment Television
  • Sony Entertainment Television MAX
  • TV Asia
  • Zee Gold
  • Zee TV
• Italian
  • RAI International
• Japanese
  • TV Japan (free to air for several hours a day. Free schedule varies)
• Korean
  • Arirang TV
  • JSTV
  • KBS World
  • MBN-CNBC
  • WOW TV
• Pakistan
  • Prime TV (Several Languages)
• Polish
  • PolSat2
  • TVN24
  • Kino Polska
• Portuguese
  • PFC (Soccer)
  • RTPiect (European)
  • TV Globo (Brasilero)
  • Record Internacional (Brasilero--São Paulo)
• Punjabi
  • Alpha Punjab
• Russian
  • RTV
  • RTV Plus
  • HTBA (NTV America)
  • Center TV Russia
• Tamil (Southern India)
  • Sun TV
• Telugu
  • ARY Digital
• Urdu
  • Geo TV

On a limited availability basis:

• Business leased channels including Busch Satellite Network.

SKY ANGEL HAS LEFT THE SATELLITE WORLD AS OF 3/31/08 FOR IPTV (Internet based distribution) and eventual oblivion.  SKY Angel channels that used to reside in the 9700 block are no longer available to subscribers.

Additiona Local Channels available to Local into local subscribers in the following cities DMAs (NOT available to distant network subscribers):

61.5°	148°
Providence, RI	Abilene / Sweetwater, TX (6)
	Billings, MT (4)
	Casper, WY (5)
	Cheyenne, WY (6)
	Lubbock, TX (8)
	Medford, OR (6)
	Rapid City, SD (5)
	San Angelo, TX (4)