I'm glad you mentioned that, most people think it's not a big deal and to a customer it may not be, but I'm sure it would turn into a big deal if the ability to provide locals was pulled.
Can a person get out-of-market locals?
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I'm glad you mentioned that, most people think it's not a big deal and to a customer it may not be, but I'm sure it would turn into a big deal if the ability to provide locals was pulled.
In most cases now with the locals on spotbeams a lot of the problems has been taken care of. In the old days Steelers fans just had to have Pittsburg locals.
I am getting old and will have to think about when dish lost the ability to give Distant locals. I dont remember people moving really being the biggest problem with that but I could be wrong.
It does not seem right to me that CABLE can give a customer out of DMA locals. How is that playing fair.
It still wrong to not be able to get your LOCAL in the state you live in.
I am getting old and will have to think about when dish lost the ability to give Distant locals. I dont remember people moving really being the biggest problem with that but I could be wrong.
It does not seem right to me that CABLE can give a customer out of DMA locals. How is that playing fair.
It still wrong to not be able to get your LOCAL in the state you live in.
Cable mostly tends to only provide locals and possibly some adjacent market stations, they are not able to have LA locals in NYC. Cable's laws were written at a time when local stations were dying to be on a cable system. If they could be rewritten they would probably end up just like the satellite rules. Now the locals demand payment from both satellite and cable companies to be carried.
Hey. Sorry to hijack... Would Chicago & St. Louis be considered adjacent market stations? I would really like to have the Chicago locals but I think I am running into a dead end. I have cable now and was planning on getting Dish so that I could "move" to Chicago but it doesn't look like we fall in the same spot beam..
You are not in the same spot-beam and it doesn't look as if the Chicago spot will reach St. Louis....
The common spot for both cities, on 110, are SD channels and do not include the big 4 networks...
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Sorry, I don't understand what you mean about overlap.
The SD part really sucks but it does have the two main channels I want, WCIU & WGN, I like watching live Chicago Bulls games but I don't know if it is worth it if I can't watch them in HD... Do you think the 110 would likely pick the HD signal soon or eventually?
Other than that, do you know if there is any other way to get these channels in St. Louis? I wonder if they are considered FTA channels although I doubt it.... NBA League Pass is way too overpriced and has too many restrictions...
BTW, Does anyone know if the receivers at Alsat are legal?
Edit: Can someone tell me what is the difference between the yellow and green borders that define a spotbeam? Also out of curiousity, what would happen if I tried to use the 129 satellite being barely outside the spotbeam? http://www.satelliteguys.us/thelist...&sub=true&sort=&order=&beamMap=CIEL2_SB22.jpg
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean about overlap.
The SD part really sucks but it does have the two main channels I want, WCIU & WGN, I like watching live Chicago Bulls games but I don't know if it is worth it if I can't watch them in HD... Do you think the 110 would likely pick the HD signal soon or eventually?
Other than that, do you know if there is any other way to get these channels in St. Louis? I wonder if they are considered FTA channels although I doubt it.... NBA League Pass is way too overpriced and has too many restrictions...
BTW, Does anyone know if the receivers at Alsat are legal?
Edit: Can someone tell me what is the difference between the yellow and green borders that define a spotbeam? Also out of curiousity, what would happen if I tried to use the 129 satellite being barely outside the spotbeam? http://www.satelliteguys.us/thelist...&sub=true&sort=&order=&beamMap=CIEL2_SB22.jpg
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I believe green is standard size dish, and yellow needs a larger one. If you are barely outside the spot a larger dish might be able to pick it up, but the signal really drops rapidly outside the contours.
