[ricksterinps]

This is something that I have been wondering for a little while now.

Where exactly does D upload all the content to the satellites? Are all channels sent from El Segundo, or do they upload some of the content on the east coast and some on the west? Being as I'm in S. California and our earthquakes, I was just curious if we got nailed by a big one. El Segundo is near the ocean, but I feel that the hills protect it from a Tsunami, and it lost all power or did get flooded, would all television broadcast shut down? If most is uploaded on the east coast and a Hurricane knocks them out, do they switch?

I'm assuming D has redundancies, but does anyone know of anything? This is totally just curiosity on my part.

 

[evan_s]

From the documentation they have filed for their sat configs and sat launches they have a couple different uplink facilities but I think the El Segundo one is the main one. They need multiple uplink facilities because they need the bandwidth for sending channels up to the sats. Think about it. With spots they are replicating that 1 tp half a dozen times or more. They need the same thing on the uplink side to be able to provide those spots. I'd imagine it also ends up being easier than having to send east coast locals all the way to ca just to send them back up to the sat and back down to the east coast.

 

[Phil T]

There are a couple in Castle Rock, Colorado. I go by one all the time on US 85 between Littleton and Castle Rock. I believe there is a larger one South of Castle Rock but I have not seen it.

 

[HoTat2]

AFAIK, at least seven main facilities.

All national or "CONUS" programming uplinks from the main "Los Angeles Broadcast Center" ("LABC') in El Segundo with Castle Rock, CO., which use to serve this function, now as its backup.

For local channels (or "LiLs"), its some uplinked from the LABC and Castle Rock, along with smaller and solely local channel uplink stations located at Moxee, WA. ("NWUF"), near Tucson, AZ. ("SWUF"), the former USSB facility at Oakdale Minn. ("MWUF"), and New Hampton, N.H. ("NEUF").

Then there is the "California Broadcast Center" ("CBC") in Long Beach, CA. which uplinks international programming to the 95W satellite as well as program feeds to other satellites (not sure which) for the "DIRECTV Latin America" service.

 

[DBSNewbie]

Here's a link to a thread from a few years ago...

It has a couple pics of the Uplink locations in Los Angeles and Colorado...