Just curious what the effect would be if DISH dropped some of the locals and did not get them quickly renewed. They can't provide you a substitute for a local network station since they can't provide DNS, so , would that open the contract where one could cancel without penalty since it would solely be the fault of Dish that they could not furnish what the original agreement was based upon? It's not like the station went out of business, just Charlie chose not to pay the "x" amount per year.
Nothing would happen, all programming is subject to change according to the contract provisions. No, this wouldn't allow you to break the contract without incurring whatever penalty you would get dinged for, usually remaining number of months left in contract times ten dollars, I think. There's nothing in the contract that says Dish, or any provider, has to provide you with locals, espn, tbs, etc. However, from a practical standpoint Dish doesn't wanna give their subs a reason to switch to Direct, cable, etc; because of course this costs them in the long run. You could complain to Charlie and your local station, I sure would
, Charlie might give you a dollar off your bill
I doubt your local station would give ya anything.