Iraqi Channel Frequencies: One State Block and Six Scattered Carriers

The Iraqi entries in our list split cleanly into two very different halves, and treating them the same way is why people end up with half the lineup.

There are 20 services across 7 carriers. One of those carriers holds the state broadcaster's own multiplex — several television services plus their radio stations, all together. The remaining services are distributed one or two at a time across unrelated carriers shared with broadcasters from other countries.

The consolidated block

The state block behaves like any well-organised multiplex: lock it once and you have the whole set, including the language-service variants and the radio feeds. It is the easy half.

The scattered half

Everything else needs its own carrier locked. These services sit on multiplexes leased by other operators, alongside channels that have nothing to do with them, which is normal — capacity is sold by the slot, not by nationality.

There is a diagnostic consequence worth spelling out. If one of these scattered services is missing while others on the same frequency are present, the problem is not reception at all — you locked the carrier successfully. The service has moved or stopped. If the whole carrier is absent, that is a reception or data problem.

Service by service

Sorted by frequency. Where several rows share a frequency, they share one carrier and arrive together.

HD and SD are separate entries

Several services in this group appear in both definitions, and they are independent entries in the transport stream rather than two views of one thing. They may sit on different carriers. Finding the SD copy tells you nothing about the HD one, and a receiver that deduplicates by name may quietly discard one of them.

A practical order of work

1. Lock the state block first. It is the largest single return for one operation and it confirms the dish and LNB are working before you chase anything harder.
2. Add the scattered frequencies one at a time from the table, checking the lock before scanning each.
3. For anything still missing, blind scan that specific frequency rather than the whole satellite. It is far quicker and it tells you what is genuinely on the carrier now.

Frequency data for a lineup this fragmented ages faster than for a consolidated one, because every one of these services can be moved independently by the operator carrying it. Treat the scattered half of this table as a starting point and the blind scan as the authority.