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WGN America Sales Have Started!

With the one year anniversary nearing of the 4DTV HITS 2 Home service ending this month last year. Rainier Satellite is pleased to announce that C band subscription TV channels at Rainier continues to grow with sales stronger than ever. Sale of WGN America (Now in PURE HD, a Rainier Exclusive), gone since 2007 from C band is available to the general public NOW as of Monday August 14th, 2017.


Live Picture of WGNA from the Rainier D9865H Receiver.
Rainier Delivers Big Cable Content Again !

To tune your Rainier D9865 receiver for WGN use the following data.

Satellite: 125 West
Polarity: Horizontal
Modulation Type: DVB-S
Downlink: 3960
Symbol Rate: 29.270
NetId: 776

Channel 50 East Coast Subscribers.
Channel 55 West Coast Subscribers.
This is determined by your DMA, Zip Code Which Channel you’ll receive.
Channel 11 WGN Sports is included with your Subscription to WGN America.

Channel cost is $19.99 per year (only a $1.66 a month) and is sold as an ADD-ON Service to our Lifeline Basic packaged (required to purchase WGN)

So what are you waiting for? Fill that big dish up once again with quality TV. Jump aboard Rainier today and get back a piece of C band history!

You can Order WGN America Here

Superstation WGN Sales Information

WGN Superstation in PURE HD  is being sold as a ADD-ON Service. To subscribe you must have a current Lifeline basic Subscription. The cost of the ADD-ON Channel is $19.99 per year.

Rainier Satellite is pleased to have been chosen to receive exclusive rights to sell Superstation WGN once again on C band. WGN America is located on the Galaxy 14, 125 degree west satellite.

A little history:

WGN subscription sales began  in the mid 1980’s with the scrambling of their signal using the VideoCipher 2 analog system. Superstar Connection began selling them to the backyard dish owners at that time. WGN was originally uplinked by United Video from their Teleport in Monee Illinois. The backyard dish signal shutdown came with the sunset of the consumer VC-2+ shutdown in 2007.  This has left WGN vacant from the c band dish owners dish for a decade. Their current PowerVu encrypted signal is uplinked from their TV Studios on the north side of Chicago Illinois. Rainier big dish subscribers receive WGN via our Cisco D9865 Receiver in Pure HD.

Superstation WGN is Back & launching on Rainier Satellite in PURE HD!

Rainier Satellite is proud to announce were bringing back one of the original C band Superstations, WGN.  WGN left C band in 2007 with the shutdown of its VC-2 signal by Motorola. The PowerVu HD signal has been picked up by Rainier through contract agreement for c band TVRO sale. WGN America currently is available in approximately 80 million pay television households.

Learn more about Superstation WGN Here

Rainier satellite is offering the Tribune owned station in our Exclusive Pure HD master format on the 125 west satellite.

Details of sales starting, package options, pricing and launch date TBA soon here at our news page, so stay tuned…

We wish to offer a warm welcome to WGN and proud to have them as part of the growing Rainier family of channels. More Cable TV Channels to come to Rainier in 2017 and beyond.

What good is your C band Dish without content you can rely on to be there when you want to watch it? Rainier guarantees your pay TV channels through us will be there when you want them.  FTA ONLY boxes with content they hype can’t!

Rainier Satellite Rebuilding C Band Satellite Television One Step at a Time! Got a big Dish? Fill it with the best for Less from Rainier.