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Tandberg Update October 23, 2026: SES-6 Rows Still Live

No new Tandberg Director feed changes today — the 12th consecutive quiet day. All three standing Director transponders on SES-6 40.5°W are verified live and unchanged. Below: today’s status check, the confirmed Director transponder list, and a plain-English guide to the SES-6 hemisphere beam — what its C-band footprint means for your dish size.

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The three standing Director transponders on SES-6 40.5°W are all verified live and unchanged today.

Quick Answer — October 23, 2026 0 new Director/Tandberg records in the last 24 hours. All three standing Director-encrypted transponders on SES-6 40.5°W (3923 L, 4019 R, 4028 R) are verified present and unchanged — the LyngSat SES-6 page stamp still reads 2026-10-21 with no parameter changes. This is the 12th consecutive quiet day for the Tandberg slot (October 12–23).

Daily Status — October 23, 2026

We scanned the usual sources for any Tandberg/Director conditional access movement in the last 24 hours (October 22, 15:30 PKT → October 23, 15:30 PKT).

Source Checked	Findings
KingOfSat New Records (batch stamped 2026-10-23 11:01 CET)	27 records scanned — 0 Director / Tandberg hits. Fresh entries are non-Director channels and routine updates.
KingOfSat News (Oct 20–23 window)	A Friday October 23 section exists but is empty — no updates logged yet. Thursday Oct 22 items are Canal+ Czechia starts, OSN 7W departures, Polish Hot Bird departures, and Yamal 402 moves — no Director activity, all covered by today’s earlier slots.
LyngSat SES-6 40.5°W (page stamped 2026-10-21)	All 3 Director rows present, parameters identical — unchanged.
Web / equipment news (October 2026)	No fresh Tandberg/Director CA announcements found — only historical press releases and unrelated broadcast items.

What this means for viewers: nothing changed on your dish today. If you receive the SES-6 40.5°W feeds with authorized equipment, they are exactly where they were yesterday.

The Standing Director Transponders on SES-6 40.5°W

These are the only currently verified Director-encrypted feeds in our tracking. All three sit on the C-band hemisphere beam of SES-6 at 40.5°W and were re-confirmed today:

Frequency	System	Services	Encryption
3923 L DVB-S2 8PSK, SR 7000, FEC 3/4	tp 66 Hemi	América (Peru) — SIDs 1 & 3, MPEG-4/HD	Director
4019 R DVB-S2 8PSK, SR 6700, FEC 5/6	tp 69 Hemi, T2-MI	RCN PLP0: RCN TV, RCN HD2, RCN Radio, La FM, Radio 1, La Mega — PLP1: RCN TV SD	Director
4028 R DVB-S2 8PSK, SR 8000, FEC 3/4	tp 69 Hemi	RCN TV / RCN Nuestra Tele Internacional / NTN 24 Internacional / RCN Novelas / RCN Nuestra Tele	Director + Irdeto

Reception note: these are professional distribution links — an authorized IRD with a proper entitlement is required to view them. A consumer FTA box will list the channel names from open signaling but show a black screen.

Evergreen Guide: The SES-6 40.5°W Hemisphere Beam and Your Dish Size

Every one of the three standing Director rows rides the same part of the spacecraft: the C-band hemisphere beam of SES-6 at 40.5°W. If you want to receive these feeds, understanding the footprint matters more than chasing parameters — the beam’s shape decides how big your dish needs to be where you live.

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What a Hemisphere Beam Is — and Why It Is Not a Spot Beam

A hemisphere beam spreads one transponder’s power across an entire hemisphere — for SES-6 at 40.5°W, that means the Americas, including South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of North America. Because the power is spread wide, the signal strength at any one point is lower than a tight spot beam aimed at a single country, but the coverage is enormously broader. This is exactly what a broadcaster distributing to dozens of affiliates across a continent wants: one carrier, one footprint, every partner inside it. Director feeds are distribution feeds by nature (broadcaster to affiliates, cable headends, playout partners), so the hemisphere beam is their natural home — which is why all three of our standing rows sit on tp 66 and tp 69 Hemi.

📷 COVERAGE

One hemisphere beam covers the Americas from a single orbital position — broad reach, at the cost of lower signal density per location.

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Reading the Footprint: EIRP Contours and Dish Size

Operators publish footprint maps marked with EIRP contours in dBW — lines of equal signal strength radiating from the beam center. The higher the dBW number at your location, the smaller the dish that can lock the carrier; the lower the number, the bigger the aperture you need. A few practical rules for C-band hemisphere beams like SES-6’s:

Inside the core contours, a well-aligned solid C-band dish in the 1.2–1.8 m class with a quality LNB will generally lock these carriers — the RCN and América rows run robust DVB-S2 modes (8PSK with 3/4 or 5/6 FEC), which are forgiving compared to the toughest constellations. Near the beam edge, the contours fall away quickly and you should plan a larger aperture — 2.4 m and up is the honest recommendation for fringe reception of hemisphere beams, because every decibel you lose at the edge has to come back in dish gain. C-band bonus: rain fade, the great enemy of Ku-band, barely touches C-band — so once your dish is big enough to lock in clear sky, the link stays rock solid through storms. Alignment matters more than size: a perfectly peaked 1.8 m dish on 40.5°W outperforms a sloppy 2.4 m one. Peak the carrier on a spectrum or your receiver’s quality meter (not just signal strength), and confirm the skew/polarization — note 3923 L versus 4019/4028 R circular polarization.

Practical tip: before buying a bigger dish, check the operator’s published SES-6 footprint map for your city’s EIRP contour. If you are inside a strong contour and still can’t lock, the problem is alignment, cabling, or the LNB — not the dish diameter.

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Why All Three Director Rows Share One Beam

It is no accident that 3923 L, 4019 R, and 4028 R all ride the hemisphere beam. RCN (Colombia) and América (Peru) are South American broadcasters distributing across the continent and beyond — their affiliates and cable headends are scattered over many countries, so a spot beam covering one city would be useless to them. The hemisphere beam puts every partner under one footprint, and the Director control layer then decides which individual receivers are entitled to descramble it — coverage and authorization are two separate jobs. The footprint has barely changed in years (the untouched row stamps 260616, 221118, and 241008 prove it), and that stability is the whole point: affiliates aim their dishes once, and the link sits there for a decade until the operator migrates it. If any of these rows ever move to a different beam or satellite, it will show up in the daily status table above — that migration is precisely what this slot exists to catch.

📷 EQUIPMENT

At each receive site a professional IRD verifies its entitlement with the operator — consumer boxes can lock the carrier but never the picture.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do all three Director rows sit on the hemisphere beam instead of a spot beam?

Director feeds are distribution links — broadcaster to affiliates across many countries. RCN (Colombia) and América (Peru) need every partner under one footprint, so the wide SES-6 hemisphere beam at 40.5°W serves them all at once. A spot beam would cover only one city and defeat the purpose.

How big a dish do I need for the SES-6 40.5°W C-band hemisphere beam?

It depends on your location’s EIRP contour on the operator’s published footprint map. In the strong core contours, a well-aligned 1.2–1.8 m solid C-band dish with a good LNB will generally lock these carriers. Near the beam edge, plan 2.4 m and up. Always check the footprint for your city before sizing — and peak the alignment before buying a bigger dish.

What do the row stamps like 260616 on LyngSat mean?

They are the date the row was last edited, written YYMMDD — 260616 means June 26, 2026, 221118 means November 18, 2022, and 241008 means October 8, 2024. Untouched stamps across years are the clearest proof these Director rows are stable, long-running distribution links.

My receiver locks 4019 R but lists zero services. What is wrong?

That is the T2-MI trap. The carrier on 4019 R carries its channels encapsulated in T2-MI with two PLPs (PLP0 and PLP1). A receiver that does not decapsulate T2-MI will show a locked carrier with an empty service list. You need an IRD or software that supports T2-MI decapsulation to see the RCN bouquet — and a Director entitlement to watch it.

Are the Director rows going to leave satellite soon?

Tandberg Television became part of Ericsson and was later spun out as MediaKind, whose public investment has moved toward IP transport, streaming, and cloud workflows — no new Director CA announcements surfaced in 2025–2026. The remaining rows are stable legacy links, but migration off satellite is how they would eventually end. This daily check exists to catch exactly that moment.

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Sources

• KingOfSat — Most recent additions/changes (batch stamped 2026-10-23 11:01 CET): en.kingofsat.net/new.php
• KingOfSat — Most recent updates news feed (Oct 20–23, 2026 window): en.kingofsat.net/news.php
• LyngSat — SES-6 at 40.5°W (page stamped 2026-10-21): lyngsat.com/SES-6.html
• Web search — “Tandberg Director conditional access satellite feeds October 2026” (equipment/feed news; no new announcements in-window)
• LightReading — “Tandberg Gets MPEG-4” (Director V5 control solution reference): lightreading.com/services/tandberg-gets-mpeg-4

Last verified: October 23, 2026, 15:30 PKT. Encryption status can change without notice — always confirm with a live scan.