Well... I am in the Grand Rapids, MI DMA. When Directv planned on rolling out HD locals and announced their plan I was banking on this summer of fall. So no surprise for me. I feel sorry for the folks who are before Reno, and won't get them soon.
D* announces 14 more HD-LIL markets, and there are some suprises.
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vgsantiago said:
You need to call those affiliates directly, ask what the hold up is, and mention they need to get a deal done.
no list....where they cut off the last one and they were following the dma pretty close ...so I guess was just taking for granted that we would make the next cut ..but what the heck do I know I am a newbe and thought that okc would be a good market for them...
Hey I am shocked Hartford made it in top 30. We got severely dissed when they rolled out SD channels. When we landed it was on 119 and years after much smaller markets. Anyhow, that now doesnt matter as I have HD antenna. Weird how it all came full circle.
Sorry, I meant to say the roll out list not just the DMA ranking list. They have not been seen on a roll out list.
OK, some people need to read more carefully.
"By June of this year, DIRECTV will have activated local HD programming in 16 more previously announced markets for a total of 36 markets,"
20 already lit
16 in june
14 newly announced.
total=50 by year's end!
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Mines coming in June. Can't wait!
"By June of this year, DIRECTV will have activated local HD programming in 16 more previously announced markets for a total of 36 markets,"
20 already lit
16 in june
14 newly announced.
total=50 by year's end!
:up
Mines coming in June. Can't wait!
Anyone noticed on that page it mentions "purchase a DIRECTV HD Receiver" on it?
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moonman said:
herdfan said:http://phoenix.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=127160&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=850780&highlight=
So you won't have to look it up:
Green Bay - #69
Portland ME - #74
Madison WI - #85
and are you sitting down,
Reno NV -#112
RENO, NV
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It only takes one channel in a market to cause the market to not get launched or delayed. DirecTv/Dish will just move on to the next market. Maybe it is spotbeams and the ones that give them the best deal. Do they have to pay additional monies for the HD feed of those local stations in addition to the SD feed?
sparker said:
I know... that is the only channel I cannot pull in with my antenna. After hearing all the struggles that Comcast and Charter have with them on re-transitting it, I am weary about D* pulling it off. However, I did read in the Charter forum last week that someone in SW Michigan who has Charter was picking it up with his tuner that looks for channels in the 80-120's range. So charter may be testing the signal on their lines right now, which means WWMT may have inked a deal with them to re-transmit! Let's hope they can do the same with D*.
Miami, Fort. Lauderdale, West Palm and Orlando will be getting HD-Lil right about the start of hurricane season. For D*'s sake, I hope that they won't be installing a bunch of these new dishes in vain. Hurricane Wilma ripped the dish right off my South Florida home last year and the local D* installers were scrambling for weeks to get people down here back up and running. (While my wife was worried about roof damage, water leaks and ruined landsaping, I was busy crying about the loss of my precious satellite dish . . . and the NFL Sunday Ticket right in the middle of football season!!!!).
I'm not suggesting that D* not do these Florida markets on the chance that we will get hit again this year. But, given the battering this area has taken the last couple of years, its not necessarily an unwise move to wait four or five months either. In any event, until the new HD-DVR gets released, I won't be ugrading anyway.
I'm not suggesting that D* not do these Florida markets on the chance that we will get hit again this year. But, given the battering this area has taken the last couple of years, its not necessarily an unwise move to wait four or five months either. In any event, until the new HD-DVR gets released, I won't be ugrading anyway.
---------------------elephant98 said:
I hope that these storms do not factor in any way with the rollout decisions.....
D* has always in the past history of these things(when the area was declared a
disaster area) to repair/replace the dish without cost to me. The fact that a certain
area where you live, should IMO have no factor on who gets what first, or be a cause to receive it later than others, due to an act of God.
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