Anyone with distants have their locals turned on this morning?
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Are the HD versions of the local nets also in the free preview? I'm getting my LA standard def locals via 119, but I don't have a dish pointed at 129 so I'm currently blind to whether or not they are also being "previewed".
Qusetion here is this. When I first installed E* all the locals I could get, and they were called locals then, were from KC. Since that time Topeka locals have been added by E* but I did not change to them. I had at the time an OTA if I wanted to see Topeka's channels. When E* added the HD feeds of the KC stations I upgraded to the 622. I now notice that I am getting the free preview of the Topeka stations. Does this mean that I will have to keep the non-HD Topekas if I want locals of will I be able to just say NO and keep what I have? I have never thought of KC as being a Distant local. It is just what I always had. And IF I lose my reason for getting the 622 am I going to have to go to Denver and stick it up somewhere the sun doesn't you-know-what.
I thought about asking this of a CSR but decided against that for about 100 reasons.
I thought about asking this of a CSR but decided against that for about 100 reasons.
i dont know if anyone will remember this... I had Los Angeles and Chicago and wanted to switch Chicago to Denver(I think). The csr removed instead of switched and FOR TEN MINUTES I had no distants and when I called back they were gone kaput see ya later-- no power in the verse could get them back. My advice: if you like your distants, dont do nuthin!!
SRW1000 said:
I'm in Wisconsin as well Scott and about 15 years ago the cable system in Madison would put up some new channel and then the subscriber had to cancel it at a certain point or would start getting billed for it. Either the state government or the FCC put a quick stop to that practice. They put it up without asking then THEY are responsible for taking it off NOT the customer. I left Madison 12 years ago to move 60 miles north. Would never move back to fantasyland LOL.
SRW1000 said:
We get "Free" previews of HBO and other movie channels all the time. And that's what this is, a free preview.
As far as adding to your bill in January, that's something else.
I for one am glad they are giving us both locals and distants together again. I was kicking myself for not keeping both a few years ago (2004) when they would actually let you have both.
Like others have said, I too think this is so if/when the distant plug gets pulled, *E hopes we all just say "Oh well, I have my locals" and forget about it...
This may not matter to anybody, but I just thought I'd share my input and say that I have not received a "free preview" of my locals (and I live north of the Atlanta area). The guy who owns the local Dish Network (or satellite store) here told me back a few months ago that, because I was so far away from Atlanta (about eighty miles north) and could not receive an acceptable signal on an antenna (in fact, I tried and couldn't receive ANYTHING) that the risk of losing my distant networks (which are all from the Los Angeles area) is minimal. I subscribed to these when I first became a Dish Network subscriber (about 2000 - 2002) and the only network I asked for out of Atlanta (FOX 5) is still the only network from Atlanta that I have (primarily in case of hazordous weather in my immediate area).
Regardless, I am billed for the package from Los Angeles and for the one network I do receive from Atlanta (although I kind of wish there were some way that I could also receive the CBS from Atlanta). I'm just scared of what some CSR might do....
Regardless, I am billed for the package from Los Angeles and for the one network I do receive from Atlanta (although I kind of wish there were some way that I could also receive the CBS from Atlanta). I'm just scared of what some CSR might do....
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