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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.

Speaking of the RSNs, it has been a puzzle to me why we can only see FSKC when the Royals play and otherwise it is blacked out. It was this way on DirecTV as well. Meanwhile, we get FSMW until a St. Louis team plays and then it is blacked out. I realize it has to do with contracts, blah...

I'm using a Samsung 500 GB portable SSD as I didn't want the noise of spinning rust. So far so good. I don't record much so the capacity seems adequate. Looking over the Wally manual I noted that it was written about five years ago and SSD drives have come a long way in that time so I...

The three Wallys we got a few weeks ago all came with a 40.0 remote.

To close my portion of this thread. I sent the family member a link to this thread after my previous post on March 24. That evening a complaint was filed with the BBB and a response was finally received this past Wednesday, April 3, from the "office of the president". The call had been missed...

Okay, then the payment made by March 8 is paying for service from March 15 to April 14, which will not be used/seen, which is now water under the bridge at this point. However, the complaint is not about the payment made by March 8 as that is final, it is the subsequent billing received this...

A family member cancelled DTV on Feb 22. Received a confirmation number and was told service would terminate on March 14. The bill for that period was paid around March 8. Now another bill has been received and the CSR claims an additional month must be paid. The account has been out of...

Okay. I believe the DPP LNBs are what were installed (main and tailgater locations). It's all good now, and frankly, I wouldn't want the extra hardware so I'm happy with this clean setup.

I realize this is a bit of an old thread. A week ago yesterday the installer, who I've been acquainted with for over 30 years, came to switch us from Directv to Dish. What should have been a very quick job was complicated by the supplier sending the incorrect LNBs for the Wally receivers we...