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i bet though that after dish does get the locals on for this area, it its goint to hurt the cable companies in the mercer county area. this being comcast for bluefield, and suddenlink for princeton area.
i know that i could not stand comcast thats why i have been a dish customer for 6 years now.
i just want the local channels for the network channels not for anything else, since the local channels really do such for this area. with wvva and woay being the two worst.

but i know that most of my family only stay with cable because of the local channels. but they said that they will get the dish once they do, and lots of my neighbors do.
so this means more referals for me..
i know that i have 5 referals now and that will be $25 off my bill.... YAY!!!

but dish has been doing alot of advertising in this area lately. i wonder if this is the reason why

No_Brains said:

but dish has been doing alot of advertising in this area lately. i wonder if this is the reason why

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probably

by the way, from the above are all the locals Dish is carrying what cable would get?
Looks like the Big 4, PBS and a religious channel

i dont want to dishes. i want the dish 1000+ dish. i already have a dish 1000 for the HD
so they will not install 2 dishes for me. it will be one dish.

Iceberg said:

probably

by the way, from the above are all the locals Dish is carrying what cable would get?
Looks like the Big 4, PBS and a religious channel

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yeah, but if comcast in bluefield also carries 2 roanoke channels.
WDBJ - CBS and WBRA- PBS

and suddenlink in princeton also carries
a couple Roanoke channels and Charleston/ Hunnington locals

but i know that dish cant does this
i wish they could it would be nice if they could

According to the FCC's Significantly Viewed List

fcc.gov/mb/significantviewedstations022509.pdf

They could add these stations for people living in Mercer County WV

WDBJ, 7, Roanoke, VA - CBS
WSLS-TV, 10, Roanoke, VA - NBC?

DishNetwork can not add SV stations.

No_Brains said:

i dont want to dishes. i want the dish 1000+ dish. i already have a dish 1000 for the HD
so they will not install 2 dishes for me. it will be one dish.

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Just kidding about the wing dish. The only reason to put one up is if someone has an EA and you have los for the 118.7.

No_Brains said:

yeah, but if comcast in bluefield also carries 2 roanoke channels.
WDBJ - CBS and WBRA- PBS

and suddenlink in princeton also carries
a couple Roanoke channels and Charleston/ Hunnington locals

but i know that dish cant does this
i wish they could it would be nice if they could

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I don't live in the area, but visit very often and I had forgotten about the ratio of "local" channels the cable companies carry versus what DISH can legally carry.
And while I hate to slam the Bluefield-Beckley TV market too much, the quality of the newscasts are overall better from Charleston or Roanoke. WVVA and WVNS however are not too bad. On the other hand, there's WOAY...

So DISH adding locals may not sway too many away from cable to satellite, unless it drastically lowers their pay TV bill. But it will be a nice plus for existing DISH subs and those who can only get one or maybe two channels off an antenna.

As a side note, I pulled up a DMA map from the FCC website. I am somewhat surprised that Bland county is NOT in the Beckley-Bluefield market. So, one can live just south of East River Mtn (the VA-WV) and actually see the WVVA tower with the naked eye and not be able to get them if they're a DISH sub. Of course, these subs would be eligibile for the Roanoke locals, but it still seems geographically odd.

Eric

Beckley-Bluefield market details:

This is one of the most rural markets in the country, and has very rugged terrain.

The historic stations are (historic channel numbers from the pre-DT days) :

WOAY - 4 ABC in Oak Hill
WVVA - 6 NBC in Bluefield

To that was added in the mid-90s, WVNS - 59, which has alternated between Fox and CBS several times. While listed as "Lewisburg", the transmitter is actually well to the west of Lewisburg.

There is no place in the market where more than one major network station can clearly be received OTA. That means that esentually everybody has cable or a dish, and always has had, even back when cable was nothing more that "CATV" a community antenna. BUD, and then DBS were godsends to the people of this area, as cable operators were mostly crooks who provided a few ghostridden channels for a high price.

Because of the historic absence of CBS (and Fox, when it launched) cable has always added a mix of channels from the Roanoke-Lynchburg, Huntington-Charleston, and/or Tri-Cities markets.

Really, the market could cease to exist tommorrow and no one would notice. If the H-C locals appeared on the WV side, and the R-L or Tri-Cites on the VA side, no one would mind, and the extremely poor and rural nature of the market makes selling ads there a marginal proposition at best. News budgets, and thus news production quality, is laughable. Really nothing much happens worthy of mention.

The current dial is:

WOAY - ABC 4 (50)
WVVA - NBC 6 (46)
-- 6.2 The CW
-- 6.3 RTN
WSWP PBS 9 (10) really just a repeater of WPBY in Huntington
WLFB - religious 40 (40) repeater of a religious station from the Tri Cities area.
WVNS - CBS 59 (8) semi-repeater of co-owned WOWK in Huntington, although it does some of its own news and has somewhat different syndicated programming.
-- 59.2 Fox with MY Network's primetime shown over the late night hours.

A subset of interest is the Snowshoe Mountain ski resort. It is located at the very northern tip of Pocahontas County, WV, and at nearly 5K feet ASL. While technically in that market, you cannot receive any of the markets stations there. But you can get channels from Clarksburg, Charleston, Harrisonburg, Charlotesville, and Roanoke. The resorts cable is weird mix, and many people have dishes subscribed to their accounts at their primary resicencs, since the place is in the spot of all of those markets, and at lest 3 more.