Enlightening! While I'm not into sports, or news. I can understand why the fans would be interested in the better quality FTA feeds. The major network feeds would be something that interested me, and feeds with content like the Science Channel, History, Discovery, Nat Geo, and TLC. My dad has an old C band receiver (the dish is long gone, but I'm sure I could find one there everywhere around here), and those will pick up C-Band & Ku. Right? IIRC it has the descrambling unit built in, and it would automatically move the antenna to the correct bird when you selected your channel. Would a unit like that only be restricted to a large 8' dish, or could you ues one on a smaller 18" dish. I'm going to go troll the C-band forum to see what I might expect ffom that equipment this day an age.