I have just read the long and sometimes humorous previous thread on moving. And I would like to say some things, but I want to say up front, it is possible I could wrong.
As I recall in 1998 or 1999, the problem with locals was people were receiving the ones NATIONALLY and that was causing concern for the local affiliates. I didn't have a dish back then, but with the absence of locals at the time I would assume the the percentage of dish subscribers in various cities who also subbed to these national networks were in the very high 90's. Why wouldn't it be? They had no other alternative that was convenient or cheaper. So, the percentage of people who subbed to a Dish service was probably also roughly the same percentage who DID NOT watch local affiliate programming for much if anything. Now, in 2007, it is still illegal obviously to have local affiliates from elsewhere and move, but the problem is probably not going to register real high on the FCC priority list because the overwhelming majority of people with locals offered to them, have theirs and truthfully, know nothing about "moving" and wouldn't dream of doing it anyway.
Where Dish's problems were was handing out the distant networks like they were candy to most anyone who would ask. That also goes back to the national channels issue.
For the people who "move" somewhere else it is mainly a local channel issue. No less illegal, but because it happens in such small numbers, I really don't think the FCC is going to go after it that hard when there are bigger issues going on in the world of telecommunications.
I could be wrong. I could be wrong about everything I just wrote, facts and all. But it seems like that is how I remember it happening anyway.
As far as me, I finally felt guilty enough to "move" back to where I live in Jacksonville. The only reason I "moved" away is most of the programming I watch is on CBS, and the local CBS affiliate here is horrible and unreliable.