Mexican Channels at 24.5°w currently free to air

Kingofsat.net is reporting that the Mexican channels at Intelsat 905 (24.5° West) are currently Free To Air as of yesterday. I haven't managed to test this out because 24.5°W is hard to receive on my dish for some reason but if anyone has a motorised dish or can move to 24.5°W easily you should receive:

Clásico TV
RitmoSon Latino
TeleHit
De Pelicula
Canal De Las Estrellas
Telenovelas

Also as some of your may remember I posted a while ago about information on these channels and how to receive them while they are encrypted. So enjoy them while they are FTA :-)

Mexican Channels receivable in UK and Europe at 24.5w

There are TV channels available from Mexico on the Intelsat 905 satellite at 24.5°W. The beam that these channels broadcast on is called Spot 2. You can see from the image below that the beam covers most of Western and Eastern Europe with the strongest area being centred on France/Spain/Italy areas. I have labelled the beams to see what dish dish size is recommended for that country. There are 6 Mexican channels broadcasting from 24.5w, encrypted in Viaccess 2.5. They are as follows:

Clásico TV
RitmoSon Latino
TeleHit
De Pelicula
Canal de las Estrellas
Telenovelas

These channels can be decrypted and viewed by purchasing a subscription card and receiver for €269 (£225). The provider of the card is by a satellite shop called DD Electronics based in Paris, France. To program these channels into your receiver point your dish to 24.5w and input the following transponder:

Frequency: 11626
Polarization: H
Symbol Rate: 13500
FEC: 7/8

Lack of Xmas music on foreign music channels

I have recently noticed a lack of Christmas music on foreign TV channels. They all seem to be playing what they usually would throughout the year. Here are some screenshots from some French music channels which shows the lack of Xmas music, taken on the 18th December 2011.


MTV Base

MCM Top

MCM Pop

M6 Music Hits

M6 Music Club