HD locals for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA timeframe??

[Hemi 6.1]

I'll be upset when football season starts and I don't have any Scranton HD locals.

[DebbyH]

Gee, when your man is here next I could give him an antenna for you to put up! Since you are the head of the association, you could put it anyplace, right? !!

Only a few more weeks to first games!

See ya.

Hah! Thanks for the offer, but already having 2 dishes, and then adding an antenna, wouldn't be aesthetically-pleasing to a woman's eye!

I'll wait for the HD, and just whine in the meantime!

Looking forward to hockey season....withdrawal is just about at its max. See you soon also!

[amoni]

Ya think calling the actual stations, someone would know when Dish is turning the switch? Of course like Dish, they probably know nothing about nothing.

[Spatch]

I take it they didn't light them up today? I guess I won't be "moving" home yet.

[hopton]

Not yet. No locals lit up (available) today. Hopefully we will see another report soon that makes us have a happier hump day.

I tried calling a local station about a year ago when I signed up for HD because Dish told me that they didn't have my locals in HD because my locals were not transmitting HD. I don't remember which channel I called, but they told me they had been transmitting HD for quite a while, the Dish satellites weren't broadcasting it. I guess if you call now, they MIGHT be able to tell you if there is a hold up in the negotiations or something. Even if they tell you that they have already signed a deal, it's still up to Dish to light them up for us.

Back to thumb twiddling.

[hopton]

HOLY COW!! The uplink report has 531 changes! TONS of locals added and available. Great news for pretty much everybody except us. NONE of ours were made available!!

[Hemi 6.1]

HOLY COW!! The uplink report has 531 changes! TONS of locals added and available. Great news for pretty much everybody except us. NONE of ours were made available!!

Those locals are SD locals that were already available. They were just switched to Mpeg4 and put on the 72.5 satellite from, my guess the 119 or 110. Those are not new HD locals. HD locals are on the 61.5.

[hopton]

Oh yeah. Oops. Guess I got a little excited and didn't read thoroughly. (Plus I am used to seeing many others get locals in HD with none for us!) Thanks for the correction.

Regardless, no HD for us.

[Hemi 6.1]

I emailed WNEPs Action 16 . They seemed to get D* but in gear with our HD locals, So I wrote them in hopes they could bug the crap out of Dishnetwork. I'll keep you posted. I'll give them 48 hours to respond to my letter, Then I'm calling WNEP. and I'm going to keep bugging them untill I get results

[hopton]

Thanks for putting up a fight for us. It will be interesting to hear their response.