Seriously, the only way to get PBS HD (on Dish) is to be in a tiny market? I would think the priority would be to get the channels to the largest audience in the major markets.
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Seriously, the only way to get PBS HD (on Dish) is to be in a tiny market? I would think the priority would be to get the channels to the largest audience in the major markets.
They are both there on the report.
Yep...you got it. There's that law where by certain date Dish has to carry all of the HD channels in a percentage of the markets. So what's the easy way to do this? Add PBS-HD where that is the only HD channel they are missing. Your government at work for you!
Well Evansville was uplinked back on 11/4/09 . So hopefully they will go live instead of getting stabbed in the back....
all 4 of the Springfield MA channels are there,the wggbd at the bottom of the report is fox 6 and the wshm is cbs.also the Albany NY market is really not much bigger than the Springfield MA market,maybe by around 100,000 people.
Exciting / surprising news about the Monroe / El Dorado channels being uplinked! Even if it requires another (hopefully inexpensive) installation to pick them up. i didn't see the local ABC affiliate on the list, but that's a channel that comes in pretty well OTA.
Very interesting about DirectTV locals. Since they have never offered even SD locals here, I would never have considered subscribing. Probably still won't, if I can get the HD locals from Dish soon without much expense. Even with the recent price increase, Dish seems to have the national HD lead well in hand. And I'm a little ticked with DirecTV for ignoring this market for so long.
My bad. KAQY is in Columbia, not Monroe or El Dorado, so I missed it at first glance.
Just a theory about the Pittsburgh locals...
They may keep the channels mirrored on both the EA and WA because many people in the Pitt area can't get one or the other because of the terrain (hills, mountains, etc.). Keeping them mirrored on both arcs gives them the best penetration into that market that they can get.
They may keep the channels mirrored on both the EA and WA because many people in the Pitt area can't get one or the other because of the terrain (hills, mountains, etc.). Keeping them mirrored on both arcs gives them the best penetration into that market that they can get.
It is weird that CBS is only up in SD though. My wife will kill me if she has to watch the Patriots in SD.
Albany is DMA 57 with 554,070 people, Springfield is DMA 111 with 262,960 viewers
It is obvious when you read their wikipedia info. They are still transmitting an analog signal.
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I wouldn't switch either. I like Dish for the hardware. I say it all the time... 722K with an OTA module is awesome.
I went through all the missing station cities and affiliations for 77w today and added/corrected the data. I reran the report and pushed another update to TheList.
One of the couple of PITA manual processes I have to update on the uplink tool since there really isn't a database out there with the info I need. But oh well...it is worth it since we can see exactly which locals they are.
One of the couple of PITA manual processes I have to update on the uplink tool since there really isn't a database out there with the info I need. But oh well...it is worth it since we can see exactly which locals they are.
Yes we are was planing on coming back to DISh if the gets us HD locals.
nothing yet
Well Evansville was uplinked back on 11/4/09 . So hopefully they will go live instead of getting stabbed in the back....
I just talked to a chief eng at one of our local Evansville station, his station has had NO contact from DISH to add his hd signal to dish.
