Abstract: Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums for discovering a service group are provided. In an embodiment, a subscriber device receives a configuration file that stores a listing of mappings, each association of the listing of mappings maps network characteristics to a service group identification (SGID), a list of transport stream IDs (TSIDs), and a list of radio frequencies (RFs). The subscriber device selects one or more associations, from the listing of mappings, that are related to a network characteristic. Then, the subscriber device tunes to an RF, selected from the list of frequencies associated with a selected association, to identify a TSID of the tuned RF. Upon verifying whether the identified TSID matches a TSID from the list of TSIDs within the selected association, the subscriber device determines that the SGID in the selected association identifies the service group for the subscriber device.