That is a different topic since their not distance channels. Distance channels are gone and will never return.
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That is a different topic since their not distance channels. Distance channels are gone and will never return.
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Thanks for all the info guys! The reason I was asking is because I have 8 dish receivers on the ship I work on. My supplier claims they can still get me NY or SF locals on 119W/129W, but I am skeptical. With the world cup coming up on ABC I need locals to work, at the time the ship will be in Alaska so I have to decide if I should trust the dealer and try to get SF/NY channels or if I should just tell them to try to get me the Alaskan locals for now. Not sure what deal they have with Dish either if the receivers are basically the same as the consumer RVs one or if they have some special arrangement in place.
Most of the World Cup is on ESPN and will be on CONUS. The finals are on ABC, so that is something to need to work through.
Alaskan service is provided by spot beams, Alaska is outside the CONUS coverage, i.e CONtinental US beam.
What little signal that may be receivable on CONUS in Alaska, you need a 3m dish to get and some in Alaska use the 3m dish for their spot beam reception.
Does your ship have internet service?
What little signal that may be receivable on CONUS in Alaska, you need a 3m dish to get and some in Alaska use the 3m dish for their spot beam reception.
Does your ship have internet service?
I thought superstations were no longer available to new subscribers, only to those who already had them?
If that is the case, then the part after the "And" in my comment above still applies, therefore, not available nationwide.
When you subscribe to NY locals on eastern arc..those 2 channels in the superstation slots are included..you get HD spotbeam versions and CONUS SD versions of 9 and 11..when NY conus locals were available they were included in the local package too(no longer available)
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Okay. If we are going to play that game, there's about a dozen or so markets where the national PBS is available ConUS and nothing else. There's also a few markets out there where one or another indie or minor local channel might be ConUS. The thing is, that's not what this thread is about. At least that is not what this thread is meant to be about. This thread is about getting all the major local channels (four major networks--and looking at the OPs subsequent posts, specifically ABC) out of market. That's it! Anything else is a distraction.
Go with the Alaska address. We sometimes for get how big Alaska is (the definition of spot in Alaska is really big!) The Alaska spot beam provides excellent coverage of the southern coastal waters.
Lets help the OP out.
Go to thelist. Check the SAT you are pointed to. Check if you are on a spotbeam which has HD locals. In my case I get SanDiego locals living in LA as I don't get 129 and can pick up 110 just fine. There are still a few conus locals on 61.5 and if you have 77, then there are a few more. Note: Before picking the conus locals on 77, ensure they don't exist on 61.5 as a spot else you won't get those unless you do a check switch and kill 61.5 all together. hope I didn't confuse. If you still need help, post back and we will help you out.
Go to thelist. Check the SAT you are pointed to. Check if you are on a spotbeam which has HD locals. In my case I get SanDiego locals living in LA as I don't get 129 and can pick up 110 just fine. There are still a few conus locals on 61.5 and if you have 77, then there are a few more. Note: Before picking the conus locals on 77, ensure they don't exist on 61.5 as a spot else you won't get those unless you do a check switch and kill 61.5 all together. hope I didn't confuse. If you still need help, post back and we will help you out.
Its sad to live in LA and pick up SanDiego locals. Wish LA locals moved to spot on 110 or 119. If I put the dish out a little further I'll get a notice to remove the dish from the patioThe LA and NY locals seem to be what most people want who did not live in those cites. The LA car chases and local news were extremely popular.
Can someone confirm whether or not this list of CONUS locals available on 77 is still accurate?? Thanks,
AS of today the following locals are available on 77° :
Lexington, Jacksonville, Harrisburg, Cincinnati, Paducah, Cape Girardeau, Louisville, Little Rock, Davenport, Springfield (MO), Evansville, Columbus (GA), Lima, Bluefield (WV).
See http://www.satelliteguys.us/thelist/index.php
That list is updated automatically whenever there are any changes to Dish satellites.
Lexington, Jacksonville, Harrisburg, Cincinnati, Paducah, Cape Girardeau, Louisville, Little Rock, Davenport, Springfield (MO), Evansville, Columbus (GA), Lima, Bluefield (WV).
See http://www.satelliteguys.us/thelist/index.php
That list is updated automatically whenever there are any changes to Dish satellites.
Let's not forget that the ONLY reason satellite was providing LA or NY (and a few other cities in the two other time zones) locals way back when was because DBS could not legally provide each DMA's loca stations. That took an Act of Congress to acheive, and the broadcasters demanded and got into the law that if a subscriber could get their local DMA from the DBS, then they were NOT to also get the out of market Distant Nets.
Not to take too long to explain, but Dish got pretty loose about who would qualify for the Distant Nets, even if they did have their local DMA's, and this teed off the broadcasters, at least the major TV Networks who had O&O's that were part of the Distant Net program, who sued and a court was prepared to pull the plug on Dish's Distant Net--BUT, Dish and the broadcasters came to a last minute agreement that would allow Dish to continue is Distant Net program and pay the Big 4 Nets hundreds of millions of dollars for the previlege (that should give you an idea of how much money Dish was making on their loose Distant Net policy), and the court was prepared to allow the settlement, but ONLY if ALL 4 agreed to it. Well, the only one to say "NO" was Fox, who, at the time also owned, you gussed it, DirecTV. Hmm. What a coincidence. I think the other 3 Nets shed some tears at not getting their buckets of money, but they got over it and just charged mountains of money to rebroadcast their O&O's in the local DMA's.
The point is Distant Nets was offered only because DMA locals were not. Now that local DMA's are availble in nearly all the DMA's, Distant Nets just doesn't seem worth the trouble for Dish and DirecTV because the vast majoirty of subscribers want their local DMA channels. The rest of us LOVED getting programmin 3 hours ealier to ease the pressure of the DVR recording other shows during Prime-Time, and some of the local content from Distant Nets was pretty good, and yes, people all over the country LOVE LA's gritty, sensationalised, alarmist, action-packed fires, eathquakes and floods coverage, and sometimes silly local news and they just can't get enough of those highspeed car chases that really do grab ratings--everywhere, that there is still a desire for Distnat Nets. I would still have mine today if they had let me keep them. I do have the grandfathered Superstations, but they are in ugly SD.
Not to take too long to explain, but Dish got pretty loose about who would qualify for the Distant Nets, even if they did have their local DMA's, and this teed off the broadcasters, at least the major TV Networks who had O&O's that were part of the Distant Net program, who sued and a court was prepared to pull the plug on Dish's Distant Net--BUT, Dish and the broadcasters came to a last minute agreement that would allow Dish to continue is Distant Net program and pay the Big 4 Nets hundreds of millions of dollars for the previlege (that should give you an idea of how much money Dish was making on their loose Distant Net policy), and the court was prepared to allow the settlement, but ONLY if ALL 4 agreed to it. Well, the only one to say "NO" was Fox, who, at the time also owned, you gussed it, DirecTV. Hmm. What a coincidence. I think the other 3 Nets shed some tears at not getting their buckets of money, but they got over it and just charged mountains of money to rebroadcast their O&O's in the local DMA's.
The point is Distant Nets was offered only because DMA locals were not. Now that local DMA's are availble in nearly all the DMA's, Distant Nets just doesn't seem worth the trouble for Dish and DirecTV because the vast majoirty of subscribers want their local DMA channels. The rest of us LOVED getting programmin 3 hours ealier to ease the pressure of the DVR recording other shows during Prime-Time, and some of the local content from Distant Nets was pretty good, and yes, people all over the country LOVE LA's gritty, sensationalised, alarmist, action-packed fires, eathquakes and floods coverage, and sometimes silly local news and they just can't get enough of those highspeed car chases that really do grab ratings--everywhere, that there is still a desire for Distnat Nets. I would still have mine today if they had let me keep them. I do have the grandfathered Superstations, but they are in ugly SD.
