Recent content by Nate Bargmann

The job of the FCC is to control the fleecing so the sheep won't bolt from the pen.

The suits don't care so long as they get their golden parachute.

Earlier this year your coop was featured in Successful Farming as I recall. It would be nice for our REC to do the same, but they still have much of their plant that dates back to the '40s and '50s to upgrade. :( For only $10/month more than you we get 10 Mbps unmetered.

I don't watch broadcast except for football and baseball. Here the Topeka Fox affiliate is still on Dish with other Fox properties removed. To see the big block ad on the screen blaming Dish, yadda, yadda, yadda, seemed a bit like closing the gate after the cows were out. If they're running...

If the 20% number noted upthread is correct, I wonder what that translates to. 1 hour/month? More or less? At a minimum, requiring those who view to pay means that an RSN sports package will cost each interest sub 5x whatever the amount is now that is spread among all subs, if Sinclair hopes...

Driving around my local area there are now many more Dish antennas than DirecTV. Of course this is a microscopic sampling of the country at large. AT&T forcing upgrades as of this year and taking the opportunity to up the fees at the same time probably caused a number of the locals to switch...

Well, yeah, but most won't admit it!

We lost the Royals with the ongoing spat. Personally, I have a radio over there and it still works. Sure, it's nice to watch but I think baseball on the radio is still the better product. I'm sick of these media companies thinking that the population has an endless supply of cash to throw at...

Does "first responder" go all the way down to rural township volunteer fire department? Updating one of the Wallys to an H3 with a pair of Joeys is attractive to me. The rest, not so much.

Fortunately, here in the middle US there seems to be more of a live and let live attitude. My ham antennas were never a problem when I lived in various towns. Now that I'm back out in the country no one is nearby to care!

I guess i see it differently. Not knowing about YTTV is simply a matter of not being told. Thinking OTA is "illegal" is mostly a matter of being trained for the past quarter century or longer that TV is "normally" received via a paid subscription. Both situations can be resolved through...

I don't know about MO either. I'm in Kansas. :) Doing something like that (county installing dark fiber) would probably be regarded as borderline communism or some such! :D I won't hold out much hope for anything like that here.

I'm not holding my breath as the likes of AT&T seem to figure out how to funnel those funds into the populated areas. I've been hearing about this or that initiative for rural areas ever since the '96 telecom bill and so far I've seen zip except for the areas served by several independent...

I'll likely be one as "broadband" as the rest of the world knows it--FTTH--won't happen here in rural AT&T territory.

My setup is two Wallys and a DPP LNB with no other equipment.