I get GetTV and Laff here in Peoria and they are the same channels that are on Dish. Buzzr is also the same.
ME TV On Dish
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But the question still remains, if Dish delivers those local channels to you over satellite, would they still be allowed to provide the national feed? ION is the only confirmed case, but I wonder if that is a special case since there are both East and West national feeds of ION.
Same programming or same channels - as in does DISH carry them as locals for you or the programming is the same on DISH as it is via your OTA antenna. I believe Laff TV sometimes in the early morning hours has an occasional local 1/2 commercial that the DISH Laff does not but that's the extent of it. As I mentioned ION can be different at times.
I'm going to assume the opposite. The local channel will want exclusive access to the market in order to keep their local advertisers happy.
Hopefully we find out soon enough.
It's entirely possible if you already get the channel as a local DISH won't provision your account for the DISH channel even though they do for ION. What I feel will not happen is what is described that Direct TV may do - give you the Satellite channel but change programming just for your market during the day. But if the channel is not provided as a local by DISH the long list of those channels I get both from DISH and OTA says there is no problem giving a market a channel from DISH they can get OTA.
Here's what I see happening. Dish will turn on the national MeTV feed for everyone with a qualifying package. Then as contract renewals come up with local channel owners who own local MeTV affiliates delivered by Dish, the national channel will be turned off in those markets.
The channel licenses itself out to be carried by other TV stations as subchannels. They also license themselves out to be carried by the satellite companies.
Ultimately it is their signal and they can license it to whoever they want to carry it.
Who knows the could even be paying DISH to be carried. Ya never know.
Ultimately it is their signal and they can license it to whoever they want to carry it.
Who knows the could even be paying DISH to be carried. Ya never know.
I would think locals have already thought about that and have it in their contract. But then again who knows...
The channel licenses itself out to be carried by other TV stations as subchannels. They also license themselves out to be carried by the satellite companies.
Ultimately it is their signal and they can license it to whoever they want to carry it.
Who knows the could even be paying DISH to be carried. Ya never know.
Any new info you have on it's being turned on?
If its not on today by 4Pm ET, then don't expect it this week.
Sorry I have been out of the loop the past few days, can't get rid of this damn cold.
Where did u see the report?..last one posted on the dark side is from the 17th..It's the 21stNot added today to the uplink report with the changes noted. So we're in a Soonholding pattern.
holding pattern.
