Agreed, but convincing more people to write to president at dishnetwork.com with the request will help
Which is what I want to happen.
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Which is what I want to happen.
I can only hope the Twitter people are forwarding comments up the chain with something like "I don't understand what these people are talking about but they keep asking for 'OTA guide data' (what is that ?) to be turned back on for the LIN stations" !! 
I wouldn't bet the farm on it, unfortunatelyI can only hope the Twitter people are forwarding comments up the chain with something like "I don't understand what these people are talking about but they keep asking for 'OTA guide data' (what is that ?) to be turned back on for the LIN stations" !!
you're partially right. I agree that the locals should allow free retransmission of their signals (IMHO, I feel the DISH locals fee should be for the expenses of off-air reception of the locals in a LIL receive facility and for transport to the uplink and for transmission over the sats rather than letting it be to help pay the stations for carriage). I also agree that the locals should be kissing the providers' rears for increasing station viewership.
I disagree that the providers provide a better picture than the local station can offer from their transmitter. By far, the locals here look better from the transmitter than they do on DISH (and even DIRECTV when I had it). DISH and DIRECTV and I assume TW and Comcast, etc. all cr**pify the signal by reworking it - usually bandwidth-wise and sometimes resolution wise, too.
1st - Dish cleverly played the FCC and avoided providing our local PBS station in HD because of some BS about 1st amendment rights (apparently Dish's, not mine) and how Dish is defending it's right to tell me what I want to watch. Well that wasn't the exact words in the Dish PR statement, but the result was the same - no PBS in HD in our local DMA
2nd - Dish decided to drop our HD Absolute package and automatically charge us more than twice as much for significantly less HD channels. And forced me to haggle with a retention specialist to be able to switch to Dish America and keep the $10 discount for 12 months.
3rd - Dish decided that it was in my best interest to squabble with LIN over the carriage fees for KXAN. Reducing my locals even further
In the mean time DirecTV has been providing our local PBS in HD for some time now, somehow manages to keep KXAN live and despite Charlie's protestations to the contrary, has vary comparably priced programing packages to the one Dish involuntarily switched me to.
The ONLY thing keeping me with Dish now is that I'm no longer under contract and fully expect to be able to drop Dish (and not have to switch to DirecTV) within the next 12 months due to increased online options.
And I can't wait to tear this stinking dish off my roof!
Talon Dancer
2nd - Dish decided to drop our HD Absolute package and automatically charge us more than twice as much for significantly less HD channels. And forced me to haggle with a retention specialist to be able to switch to Dish America and keep the $10 discount for 12 months.
3rd - Dish decided that it was in my best interest to squabble with LIN over the carriage fees for KXAN. Reducing my locals even further
In the mean time DirecTV has been providing our local PBS in HD for some time now, somehow manages to keep KXAN live and despite Charlie's protestations to the contrary, has vary comparably priced programing packages to the one Dish involuntarily switched me to.
The ONLY thing keeping me with Dish now is that I'm no longer under contract and fully expect to be able to drop Dish (and not have to switch to DirecTV) within the next 12 months due to increased online options.
And I can't wait to tear this stinking dish off my roof!
Talon Dancer
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tempVAdish said:WOW!!! I wish I got paid $100/hr to watch TV
That's my billing rate for my contract customers.
I believe they can do so because they are not pulling in a neighboring DMA channel, but rather their plan was bring the programing direct from the Network. Sorta of cutting out the middle man (local affiliate channel).
I just got this non-answer from president at dishnetwork.com on the OTA issue:
I fired the following back:
I fired the following back:
From the Bangor Daily News article re Sinclair:
"Time Warner says it would have replaced signals from Sinclair with feeds from nearby stations in other cities."
That's what Time Warner here was planning to do. Here, it's Time Warner Southwest Ohio (I think), which covers Dayton and Cincinnati. When Sinclair was going to pull FOX's Dayton affiliate, TW was going to supply the FOX affiliate from Cincinnati.
Yeah, they cut my CBS channel off at midnight this past Friday night at Midnight. Hmmm.....Dish should by all reason (of course in my opinion...unbiased of course) deduct a certain portion of my charges for local and give me the option to get distant channels.
odd how a company can drop customers and show more profit, maybe for services not delivered
3rd - Dish decided that it was in my best interest to squabble with LIN over the carriage fees for KXAN. Reducing my locals even further
This isn't DISH's fault, it's LIN's fault. LIN did the same thing with KXAN with Time Warner. Time Warner's response was awesome: They pulled the channel and replaced it with Starz, giving customers a free premium channel. KXAN remained off Time Warner for a month and KXAN only came back to the bargaining table the night before the start of November sweeps because they didn't want to lose advertising dollars. I hope Charlie plays hardball with them just like Time Warner did.
Hey...when did Time Warner give out free Starz??? They won't give us the NFL Network or HD Net, but were giving out free Premium Channels, when we don't even get the free previews of Starz? The certainly didn't do that in New York.
