Looking for advice for small motel...

[ej00807]

I manage a small, fairly low-end, motel with about 20 rooms, and perhaps only 8 rooms are nice tourist rooms. Recently I learned that the cable tv provider in my small city is discontinuing service. I only have a few months to make some sort of a transition.

I'm not exactly sure what I want to do yet. I have been considering setting up 1/2 of my rooms with terrestrial antenna. I might offer those guests either Roku or Sling for additional charge and deposit.

Of course, I'd like to have at least half of my rooms with a nice satellite dish lineup. But I'm not sure whom to go with, equipment costs, programming differences.

Any advice on how to get the best deal with either dish or direct?

Will I get some discount for installing the dishes and doing line drop in advance? I want to do poll mount keeping everything off the roof. Having previously done installation work, I don't really want 'professional' installers even touching this lousy building. lol. But I'm open to your ideas about that.

 

[navychop]

I suppose you could buy your own equipment and self install. Not sure if you'd see any savings, though.

Perhaps Claude will be along shortly. This is his bailiwick.

It ain't gonna be cheap.

Rokus will introduce theft problems. Sure, this can be worked around. But do you really want guests accessing some of those private channels?

 

[Horsepower]

Well, what did you do?

 

[Juan]

What are you going to use for Internet?

 

[KE4EST]

Well, what did you do?

I was mildly curious about this, and then forgot about it.
The TS has not been on in several weeks, but maybe ej00807 will be back soon and let us know.