Home Show - Apr 11, 2013

On April 12, 13 and 14th, come see our booth at the Oakville Lifestyle Home Show where we will have a working demo for Shaw Direct, Xplornet and our Ku-band HD motorized FTA ...  More 

Easter weekend holiday - Mar 29, 2013

Please note that our store will be closed on Friday March 29th for Good Friday and will resume normal operating hours on Saturday March 30th. ...  More 

New spring hours of operation - Mar 19, 2013

Now that spring and daylight savings time are here, we at Dr. Sat will be changing our store's hours of operation effective March 20th 2013, the first day of spring. The ...  More 

Business hours for February 7th and 8th - Feb 06, 2013

Dr. Sat will be closing at 5:00pm instead of 7:00pm on Thursday February 7th and Friday February 8th. We will resume regular business hours after these days. ...  More 

Holiday hours - Dec 22, 2012

Dr. Sat will be closed on Christmas eve, Christmas day, New Years's eve and New Year's day. We would like to wish all of our customers a merry Christmas and a happy new year ...  More 

RTPi frequency change - Oct 30, 2012

Portugal's national broadcaster, RTP International, has changed its Intelsat 805 55.5W transponder frequency which impacts customers receiving RTPi using a C-band dish. As ...  More 

OTA local channel changes - Sep 05, 2012

Effective immediately, CJMT OMNI 2 Toronto has switched physical channels from RF 51 (Virtural 69.1) to RF 40. Viewers will need to rescan all of their TV's in order to update ...  More 

Labor day holiday - Sep 02, 2012

Please note that our store will be closed on September 3rd for Labor Day and will resume normal operating hours on September 4th. ...  More 

RTS Serbia FTA channel now using MPEG4 - Aug 15, 2012

Serbia's national broadcaster, RTS Satelit, has upgraded the transmission format it uses for their Free To Air channel located on the Galaxy 19 satellite from MPEG2 to MPEG4 ...  More 

Civic holiday - Aug 03, 2012

Please note that our retail store will be closed on Monday August 6th for Ontario's Civic Holiday. However, we will still be open for regular business hours on Saturday August ...  More 

Dr. Sat site blackout - Aug 01, 2012

As a sign of respect for the many Canadians who lost free access to the CBC and Radio Canada on OTA today, we at Dr. Sat have temporarily blacked out our website's background ...  More 

CRTC approves CBC request to cease analogue OTA - Jul 17, 2012

The CRTC has approved the application from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to revoke the broadcasting licences of its television programming undertakings CBIT Sydney ...  More 

New tuning parameters for Azteca - Jul 04, 2012

The Azteca Ku band feed on Galaxy 25 @ 93.1W has again recently changed its parameters. Although the transponder frequency remained the same, the symbol rate was changed ...  More 

Canada Day holiday - Jun 30, 2012

Please note that our retail store will be closed on July 2nd for Canada Day. ...  More 

PBS services on AMC 21 now in DVB-S2 format - Jun 24, 2012

Effective immediately, the PBS services on AMC 21 @ 125W have changed transmission formats from DVB-S QPSK to DVB-S2 8PSK. Along with the switch, picture quality was increased ...  More 

TV Pampa move to Eutelsat 12.5W - Jun 21, 2012

TV Pampa which was originally available on Telstar 12 @ 15W has recently moved to a different satellite nearby at 12.5W. Unfortunately, they are also now using a satellite ...  More