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    ESPN News Packages?

    But even the cartoon ch. has been struggling of late
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    Dish Satellite now under 5 Million subscribers/Sling under 2 Million.

    That is total bull. Echo should have lost that spectrum altogether under the use it or lose it provisions of the auctions. To now say it can't pay creditors is just crookery.
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    Should I upgrade?

    They're never going to go for "free locals". Those locals cost THEM a ton from ever-more $$-demanding station ownership groups. If can get offair, that's the way to deal with the extortionists
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    HELP

    Wasn't air tv that outfit that set up 1000s of miniature tv antennae at their HQ and sent offair signals to cx's?
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    Got some sad news to share. Claude Greiner died yesterday

    You got a personal subscription deal directly from Charlie Ergen? I was at that Team Summit (dealer convention) as well and had some good discussion with him, even though our business models and ethics somewhat differed... I got a kick out of his spelling challenges in his posting to...
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    Replacing a actuator motor

    Probably not a bad motor if still running. The jack may need lubing and/or cleaning. One thing to try might be to pull the motor off the jack and see how it runs on its own, vs. when driving the jack.
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    ESPN News Packages?

    Another in a long line of channels that blew up their nominal formatting. On The Learning Channel, you can now learn about getting hitched in 3 months
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    Got some sad news to share. Claude Greiner died yesterday

    I was still able to get onto his board fairly recently but last I tried I couldn't. I first found out about Claude (& his board) when he called in to a Charlie Chat and gave a shoutout to his URL. I was also somewhat taken aback at his youth, but satellite was a youth industry. He quickly became...
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    2026 Fall Primetime Network Schedules

    So why isn't there like a cable for streaming? That aggregates content from various streamers the way cable (and then sat) aggregated from programmers? So then you'd sub to like various tiers of streamed content, like cable packages, all from 1 provider.
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    Dish Satellite now under 5 Million subscribers/Sling under 2 Million.

    Oh, you betcha, and by even more given they can't get as good of a deal on programming anymore. Plus simply fewer subs to try to profit on
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    Anyone possibly have a 942 DVR they’d like to get rid of?

    Yeah, that's it. Kinda forgot about the 942. Now somebody's going to want a 921
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    2026 Fall Primetime Network Schedules

    I was flipping through channels and noticed that CBS is running Hollywood Squares in PT. Fascinated, I watched for a few minutes. Wow. Even cheesier than the original. Don't know how people can watch that. This, from the "Tiffany Network".
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    Dish Satellite now under 5 Million subscribers/Sling under 2 Million.

    I say it also had to do with poor customer service. They didn't support local service presence and threw a lot of their goodwill, some entirely unearned the way they treated dealers who were frontline to their cx's, out the window. Then tried to play catch-up, patch-up by building an in-house...
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    Dish Satellite now under 5 Million subscribers/Sling under 2 Million.

    Why did they stall out at 14m? I have tried sling freeview and it's difficult
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    Dish 60.0 Remote

    Doesn't look attractive to me, either....sometimes that's all it takes to bias against. Why have commonly used functions ch & vol been relegated to the top rather than placing at midpoint where thumb naturally falls in single-handed use? How do you switch modes or know what mode it is in? Why...
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    Anyone possibly have a 942 DVR they’d like to get rid of?

    What I remember of the 942 it was like an outlandishly huge sat box.
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    Dish Satellite now under 5 Million subscribers/Sling under 2 Million.

    But wait, sling is streaming, and they're losing that as well?? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy
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    System Issues Fixed

    It wasn't down but it looked really weird
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    Do Phone Bans for Kids in Schools Work?

    Without watching, the consensus answer seems to be yes. The trajectory of devices in schools has spanned the banning of pagers and then phones because of drug dealing, to the wide permitting of phones so that the kiddos and their parents can be in instant contact, to now re-barring them simply...
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    Anyone possibly have a 942 DVR they’d like to get rid of?

    Are people collecting these like old TVs now?
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    How to tell if my system is using satellite or streaming from Internet?

    Probably they're not streaming them. Can you get locals on the Sling?
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    Dish is dead to me.

    They didn't want my bad 722 for the warehouse
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    Where were you 40 years ago?

    I was first in Europe in 1990, and there was virtually no sign of any sat dishes. I did see one early apparent retailer for them, though.
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    Von Weise Actuator

    Do you need just the head unit or how long? VW was one of the quietest sat dish movers. Originally designed for hospital beds. I did not find it the most durable in use however- I was always replacing a VW because it had gotten a bunch of slop, or end play.
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    Rate Question

    They've switched from 2-year to 3-year commits?