America's Top 250 with no locals.

[DK_Sat]

I have the America's Top 250 with no locals , If i sigh up for HD for life will i be able to keep the same Top 250 package with no locals.

 

[garys]

Dish will add your locals, you are now grandfathered in to not have them. But once you make a change to your subscription they will be added. Nothing you can do to prevent it except to not change your current account.

 

[DK_Sat]

I have a VIP 211k and 222k both receivers have the with OTA module connected to the OTA antenna , I am not changing my subscription package i just want to go from SD to HD. My dish is the International dish 110, 118, 119, 129.

 

[Bobby]

As already said, when you change anything in your subscription, your grandfathered sub ends and you will be required to have locals... Changing from SD to HD is an overall subscription change. While you are not changing any programming, you are making a change.

 

[jeroma]

Even ordering a PPV is considered a change to your base pack not including locals.

 

[navychop]

Even ordering a PPV is considered a change to your base pack not including locals.

Wow. Are you sure about that? That would make for one expensive movie!

 

[KAB]

Even ordering a PPV is considered a change to your base pack not including locals.

You know this from personal experience?

 

[DK_Sat]

Zack or Mary from DISH Network Support can answer the question, when a call DN some were in India i get all different answer from them.

 

[Mr Tony]

Even ordering a PPV is considered a change to your base pack not including locals.

no it won't. There have been examples of folks getting out of market sports packages (which are considered PPV) and not losing grandfathered status

 

[Laddyboy]

I dropped the protection plan and they added locals.

 

[dwarren2]

I'm glad I've got my locals from Dish. If I want to dvr a local, I use the Dish feed whenever I can. That frees up my ota tuner to watch/record either the primary or subchannel of my locals. I also get a 2nd cities locals ota.

 

[RaymondG@Dish Network]

I have the America's Top 250 with no locals , If i sigh up for HD for life will i be able to keep the same Top 250 package with no locals.

If you sign up for the HD Free for Life promotion the locals will automatically be added to your package. This only occurs when a change is made to your account. For example, if you scheduled a tech visit, or changed your programming package. This does not happen when ordering PPV.

 

[navychop]

Is it supposed to happen if the protection plan is dropped?

 

[RaymondG@Dish Network]

Is it supposed to happen if the protection plan is dropped?

Dropping the Protection Plan is a change on the account. Any change to your monthly services will prompt the system to automatically add the locals.

 

[DK_Sat]

That sucks, why do dish network receivers like the 211k and 722 come with OTA modules so you can receiver your OTA locals for free.

 

[Mr Tony]

gives you extra tuners for OTA
211k has one sat and one OTA tuner
722 has one OTA and 2 sat tuner
722k has 2 sat tuners with the option to add a OTA cartridge for added 2 OTA tuners

 

[mike123abc]

That sucks, why do dish network receivers like the 211k and 722 come with OTA modules so you can receiver your OTA locals for free.

Dish had to agree to put locals with every sub to carry locals. Local stations demand that all the subs in their area "contribute" to their bottom line.

 

[jeroma]

Not to keep this going but I needed MattG from DIRT help remove locals after I had ordered a PPV[previous pm from Matt]:


I did not add the locals onto the account, but it looks like when the PPV was ordered, they were added on

Matthew "Speedy" Gonzales
DISH Network Customer Service
Sunday-Thursday 2:45p-11:15p (MST)
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