Originally Posted by
lamphs
Trying not to go into OMNI/PR territory here, so a simple answer will do.
Yesterday, 738 equipped with DTV, my neighbor noted that CNN and MSNBC were available,, but Fox was not. Fox purposefully blocked or just a malfunction?
(I noted a few other popular channels were also not available.)
It's not uncommon for one or more muxes (block of not necessarily sequential channels) to be unavailable on specific aircraft for a a variety of non-nefarious reasons. Most typically related to the inability for one reason or another to pick up a particular transponder on a particular satellite (dish positioning/tracking alignment seems to be the most common cause, and I've been on some aircraft where some channels are only available when the aircraft is pointed in a particular direction). If a channel were intentionally dropped it wouldn't be listed in the EPG.