Distant Network Shutoff on December 1st?

[srbond]

From what I have seen, yes, you cannot buy Total Choice without Locals if you live in a market with locals.

Yep, I looked that up... and they are more expensive than Dish even on their most basic packages.

I wonder why some people think that having locals is such a benefit.

[tripod]

I keep gettings calls from Dish Net to return the new RV waiver asap.

[ThomasRz]

I don't know why Greg Bimson even bothers. I don't anymore and only popped in to pat him (ok, and myself as well) for calling the decision a long time ago. Now I still see people asking - "If E* gets cut off why not D*?" or that it's all a conspiracy by Rupert Murdoch and NAB. Evidently some folks have been living in a cave for the last few months. Or perhaps the intrusion of reality into their fantasyland of "any signal, anytime, anyway" is just too hard to take psychologically and they insist on trying to fight the battle over and over again. It's fine to have strong feelings (I want.....) but emotion is not a substitute for the law and using it as such just makes a poster look dopey. Finally, if you want to challenge Mr. Bimson (or anyone else), namecalling is not effective. Take the post in question and clearly state why you believe it to be erroneous. It is most helpful if you provide some sort of authority for your contentions. The fact that your cousin's ex-wife's neighbor's nanny's hairdresser said X, it not credible evidence that X is true.

[dishrich]

From what I have seen, yes, you cannot buy Total Choice without Locals if you live in a market with locals.

This is NOT true at all - you do NOT have to take locals even if they ARE available in your market. And they will lower your bill $3 from the "listed" prices of all TC packages.

I KNOW this for a fact because I have MANY D* customers that still don't get locals through them...

[dishrich]

I wonder why some people think that having locals is such a benefit.

For starters, if you have an SD DVR, you have NO way to record local network programming, since NO satellite SD DVR can record from an antenna...

[Greg Bimson]

This is NOT true at all - you do NOT have to take locals even if they ARE available in your market. And they will lower your bill $3 from the "listed" prices of all TC packages.

My bad. I thought you were forced to take locals, if you live in a local market.

[boy921]

Evidently some folks have been living in a cave for the last few months. Or perhaps the intrusion of reality into their fantasyland of "any signal, anytime, anyway" is just too hard to take psychologically and they insist on trying to fight the battle over and over again.

It is Grief and the steps that follow:
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and, acceptance. We should be at the point of depression around December 1.

[Newshawk]

Not true. You could subscribe to a D* base package without locals, but you would not be able to get any distant network stations if locals are available from D* where you live.

[waltinvt]

It is Grief and the steps that follow:
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and, acceptance. We should be at the point of depression around December 1.

LoL

[waltinvt]

Not true. You could subscribe to a D* base package without locals, but you would not be able to get any distant network stations if locals are available from D* where you live.

I believe this came out by the FCC at some point after the '04 SHVERA legislation as some sort of clarification or new rule by the FCC and it applied to new customers or new requests for distants by existing customers for any satellite company. I don't know if it was really part of the original bill but maybe someone else can confirm.

It basically insured the grandfather status wasn't in any way "portable", so I doubt congress thought it up all on their own.