directvrep said:
Just because it is in the guide does not mean that you still get it. If the channels are actually showing up and not telling you to call cust service, then you still get the signal. It just means that ( as always ) the local affiliates may challenge any waivers that you currently have. With the conversion they may be paying a little more attention to the waivers being xfered to ensure it is properly processed.
~~ If you have a station that you don't have a waiver for, of if you "moved " into a white area... then you might get caught and the signal will be challenged and disconnected.
The fact of the matter is, before I was a Pegasus customer, I was a DirecTV customer (signed up in '94), and no, I didn't move, I just stopped getting a DirecTV bill and started getting a Pegasus bill. In '94, I signed up for PrimeTime 24 and when PrimeTime 24 went away, I lost NBC and FOX, but kept ABC and CBS. In 2000, we replaced our broken receiver with two receivers, and Pegasus said we had to reapply for waivers for ABC and CBS, so we did and had no problems getting ABC as it was turned on the next day. We lost CBS however. A year later, one of our new receivers broke (I've had bad luck with RCA receivers), and when we got a new one, we had to reapply for a waiver for ABC. Again it was granted.
Last year I decided to ask Pegasus to reapply for a waiver for CBS for me. They told me they couldn't do this as I didn't move, make a change to my account, etc. I spoke to the woman for a while about how I was pretty sure that I could reapply for a waiver, and she kept telling me I was mistaken. A few months later we got a letter from Pegasus telling us that our request for a waiver for ABC and FOX has been turned down... this was odd as we never asked for ABC or FOX. I then contacted our closest ABC affiliate, and their engineer replied back to me telling me that he never remembered getting my request for a waiver (although that could have been due to the account not being in my name), but that he said that it was his policy to grant waivers for those outside their DMA. I later find out that I'm within the Grade B coverage area of another ABC affiliate some 70+ miles away from me, so I'm assuming it was them that turned down Pegasus's waiver request. However, since that time (and even now that I'm with DirecTV) we still have ABC.
My question was not rather so much that the affiliates might challenge, but DirecTV?! I'd hate to lose the only network I watch simply because of the "goof-ups" that Pegasus has done with my DNS.
~Alan
. We started getting the accounts ready 2 days ago and look to transition almost all of the Peg customers over by the end of September. We just have to hear back from Peg's bankruptcy court decision before the transition takes place.
