I'm confused. On your chart dated 4/02/2011 for Satellite 110 is says that the Chicago HD networks (Channels 73, 74, 75, 76) are on Conus Transponder 21. I just upgraded my subscription to HD and am waiting to get my new HD receiver thinking that I would be able to get the Chicago HD networks. What's the deal?
First, before it gets out of hand, that chart is NOT official from Dish, even though it is correct. So don't blame something on a site that is not the Official Dish site.
Those channels are still there, but not broadcasting anything other than a message to past subscribers that the service is no longer being offered. They are in a hold, until someone else comes along to provide them, or Dish decides to use them for something else, or I suppose Dish decides to offer them. There is NOTHING on the Dish site that tells you that you will get any networks other than what is in your DMA as described when you do the qualification.
Also note, even at that, Dish never offered those, it was a separate company. You made an assumption unfortunately that is not true.
And to add to that, there are plenty of channels on the chart that not everyone is eligible to get. Just because they are there does not mean you can get them. It simply is a correct listing of what is on the satellites, not what you can get. None of this is hardly anything new, some of the biggest threads are about distants.