This is another reason that I will not upgrade to the Hopper without the OTA support. While they blacked out Columbus WBNS and are running propaganda ads right now I was still able to switch over to my OTA tuner on the 722 and watch a program.
Luckily, I just checked my timers and I don't have any important ones that record anything from 10TV WBNS (shows you how important the Dispatch Group is and CBS is!). But if there were, I would have been able to use manual timers to reset the recordings to the OTA channels by date/time. The lack of OTA and manual timers on the Hopper makes it red headed step child already.
Dish has to understand that even though their statistics show certain percentages, that there is no way that you can forecast or predict 'lost opportunity sales'. So, OTA is not a high priority as was mentioned in another thread, but what are the lost opportunity sales of people not renewing contracts or switching to Direct TV.