Local Channel Question

[Karl Foster]

OK, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know crap about the technical aspects beyond my 18" dish, multi-switch, and receivers. I have a question about the Local Channel Chart located here: http://www.dbstalk.com/directv.htm

The Salt Lake City stations are listed as channels 979-989. In actuality, on my receivers, they are the same as the OTA numbers: 2,4,5,7,9,11,13,14,30. When I punch in 979 on my remote, it says Channel Unavailable. What am not understanding?

[Steve Mehs]

All newer DirecTV recievers can map you local channels to their OTA channel numbers. So your OTA channel 2, which is KUTV-CBS, I believe, is channel 979 is being mapped to channel 2 on your recievers. On older units that cannot map the channels all locals will be in the 800's and 900's.