Recent content by bmxcookie

Has anyone else been having issues with the OTA locals not showing their guide info? We are in the North Platte DMA, #208, and our locals are not in HD yet through Dish, they are on the OTA. We have all of the affiliates, except our ABC in piped in from the neighboring DMA from our direct East...

A modulator should do the trick. It will be SD, not HD. A modulator allows the signal from the RCA outs on the Hopper or the Joey's to be converted to RF (Standard RG6) on either channel 3 or 4.

Really? Your blaming Dish? This is my opinion. I am a former EchoStar FSM/FSS III, and now the Dish Manager/Lead installer at a local retailer. I have been in the industry since 2002 and worked many many long hours and have done many after hours service calls (We have a special after hours rate...

North Platte DMA locals in HD and North Platte DMA locals available to the 13 additional counties the FCC says they are allowed to without restriction. Dish has been given and has always had permission from the FCC to rebroadcast "significantly viewed" locals channels to customers. Why do they...

North Platte, NE DMA back up and running as well. Possibly with larger DMA map as well. Can anyone validate if Nebraska locals are available in Keith, Arthur, Grant, Hooker, Cherry, Dawson, Blaine, Frontier, Hays, or Custer county in Nebraska? Thank you!

Uplink help! Can any one verify? I had a friend tell me she was watching a local from the North Platte DMA, she lives in the Denver DMA. Have there been DMA changes in the last 24 hours? I hope so, I have been fighting since November to get 13 additional counties in Nebraska the ability to see...

Dish did not drop Hoak Media, Hoak Media dropped Dish. HOAK is asking for 200% more $ and mandating that Dish customers watch commercials. We lost our NBC and FOX affiliate because of this. It's stupid and immature! Not everyone has a Hopper, not everyone can auto-hop. We can't even get PTAT...

Can I have a member of the DIRT team PM me please? Thanks in advance!

I have an opinion. I was a former DNSC FSS 3 and FSM, now an install manager/installer for a local retailer. I was hired by the retailer because of my work ethics and because I adhere to DNSC standard. Have I installed a system without a ground? Yes. Because there was not an NEC approved ground...

I sent an email to press@dish.com, I hope someone replies.

Ok, the counties in Nebraska that are effected get their locals from Denver, 250+ miles from them. We (North Platte DMA) are on average only 70 miles from these counties. The FCC is who I got the letter from so they must be saying it's ok for Dish to do this. Limited satellite space? These...

Hello, I need contact info for someone at corporate dish. Our account rep is not helping our situation at all. I recently (November) started a petition in hopes that the FCC, The Nielson Company, and Dish would allow Nebraska locals to more of Nebraska residents. I got a letter today informing...

Here is a good read for anyoneinterested in the issue. Satellite Television | FCC.gov I find it hard to decifer some of the legal stuff but it appears to me that the STELA act of 2010 would allow Dish to send the Nebraska Locals just about any where in the state.

Spot beams are a turn of the dial usually, and there are several people in the sandhills that are giving a false address to a neighboring town just so they can get North Platte locals adn they come in fine, even at 80 miles from North Platte. The main problem is that whomever set up the DMA's...

Also could depend on what the last channel was she was watching. I have an issue with Denver HD locals in the sandhills of Nebraska. They will not come in at all and you get a signal loss screen. If you hit menu while in the signal loss screen and go to number 1 for program guide you can choose...