I feel so bad for those people who lost WMUR. That is a situation that needs to be addressed. People in NH can't watch NH stations but people in Southern Massachusetts can... Somethings wrong with that.
You can say that again. I gotta share my WMUR story:
My in-laws live have lived in NH all their life. They're both retired and WMUR has been "their" channel for like forever. About 5 years ago they retired and moved nearer us (still in NH but just across the river from us in VT). They had to change cable companies.
Their locals on cable have never looked very good and whenever they visited us, they'd see how much better the same (we're in the same DMA)channels look on satellite. The eventually switched to Dish.
Trouble is, NH is divided among 3 DMAs (ME, VT & MA) and their location in central NH is in the Burlington, VT DMA. WMUR is the
only station in all of NH but Dish bundles it with the Boston Locals.
Anyway, after their commitment was up, they can't stand not getting WMUR anymore, so they switch back to cable. NH's ONLY station and many (most) residents couldn't even get it. How stupid is that?
Well apparently congress was embarassed enough to put special wording in the SV legislation so NH residents could have WMUR added to their package as SV regardless of their DMA.
However, apparently they left it as "optional" for the satellite provider, so Dish screwed around and only just recently started including it in the other NH DMAs.
Soooooooo, my in-laws switched back to Dish a month or so ago. I haven't heard from them today yet but I'm sure they're going to be livid when they find out WMUR is gone - again - and it's Dish's fault. My mother-in-law may personally go to Colorado and beat the sh*t out of Chuck with a rubber hose.
