TV Land is all but dead. Movies from the '80's? Are there not enough movie channels? I too would love American Life and according to their website:
Dish does not carry AmericanLife TV and it's not because we haven't asked. They say it is because you, the viewers, aren't asking for AmericanLife TV. If you want ALN where you live then please contact them directly
Here's where to ask
AmericanLife TV Network
I like TV Land actually...they've been playing a fair amount of Hogan's Heroes lately. Plus I enjoy watching the Beverly Hillbillies and Andy Griffith, among other shows (nothing equates to Hogans Heroes though!).
AmericanLife isn't bad either...I get it on cable, but I don't watch it as much.
We also have RTN as a local channel here and I watch that a fair amount. They seem to cover a lot of stuff that isn't on the other channels...Hawaii Five-Oh, Magnum PI, etc.
tvland has been mtv'd ... just like all the other channels they bought ... cmt used to show videos but now shows sitcoms and movies etc ... mtv2 which was originally put up there because mtv got serialized is now showing sitcoms also ... why do these people change what was successful and what was working (after all they bought it because it was a money maker)???
I thought I saw somewhere that the owners of the channel weren't easy very easy for Dish to negotiate with, so they gave up.
You might just need an OTA antenna. RTN is on one of our OTA alternate channels. My daughter loves watching reruns of Emergency.