I think I finally have my son talked into Dish. He is a sports fanatic and wants all of the sports channels he can get. He would get the gold package and he lives in Bakersfield, CA. The Web site lists the programming, but my question is, how do you know what channels will be received by area? Do you really gain much that isn't already in the gold package? As usual, the CSR on the phone wasn't much help. Thanks for any info.