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  2. Investigation Discovery - Wikipedia

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    Investigation Discovery, stylized and branded on-air as ID since 2008, is an American multinational pay television network dedicated to true crime documentaries owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland . As of November 2023, ID is available to approximately 69,000,000 pay television households in ...

  3. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The service's "exclusive" high-definition channels were migrated to the Dish Network system. Commercial satellite TV services are the primary competition to cable television service, although the two types of service have significantly different regulatory requirements (for example, cable television has public access requirements, and the two ...

  4. Virtual channel - Wikipedia

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    Virtual channel. { {mi|. In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered as digits on a receiver's remote control . Often, virtual channels are implemented in digital television ...

  5. C-SPAN - Wikipedia

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    C-SPAN Live. and on demand. Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network ( C-SPAN / ˈsiːˌspæn / SEE-span) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service. It televises proceedings of the United States federal government and other public affairs programming.

  6. Access Point Name - Wikipedia

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    Access Point Name. An Access Point Name ( APN) is the name of a gateway [1] between a mobile network ( GSM, GPRS, 3G, 4G and 5G) and another computer network, frequently the public Internet. [2] A mobile device making a data connection must be configured with an APN to present to the carrier. The carrier will then examine this identifier to ...

  7. Internet Protocol television - Wikipedia

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    Internet Protocol television ( IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This is in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable television formats. Unlike downloaded media, IPTV offers the ability to stream the source media continuously. As a result, a client media player ...

  8. QAM (television) - Wikipedia

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    QAM (television) QAM is a digital television standard using quadrature amplitude modulation. It is the format by which digital cable channels are encoded and transmitted via cable television providers. QAM is used in a variety of communications systems such as Dial-up modems and WiFi. In cable systems, a QAM tuner is linked to the cable in a ...

  9. Dish Network - Wikipedia

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    The DISH 500, as a result, provided very large capacity for local-into-local service, nationwide programming, and business services. In order to migrate existing customers to DISH 500, DISH Network provided value-added channels in addition to local channels that could only be received with the DISH 500 and newer systems.