I'm glad that some of you actually got a response from Dish... I've been trying to get a response to this bad signal issue on 23 and 57 for a while now.
I work at one of the radio stations which broadcasts from the same tower as ch 57. Their main antenna has indeed blown up, and they have had alot of trouble getting it off of the top of the tower. They sent a helecopter up to pull it off, but the weight of the equipment was greater than the chopper could handle, and they dropped it back down when the felt the helecopter starting to strain under the weight! Anyway, 57 realizes that we are only a few years away from the analog shutdown, so they are weighing their options as to whether they will replace, patch up the old one to limp thru 2 more years or just keep broadcasting from the Aux as they are now. If they leave it as is for the next 2 years, expect a snowy picture for a long while. It would be nice if Dish would just downconvert the digital signal and rebroadcast that instead. As for channel 23, Dish could remap the Newark station, seen in NYC to Philly, as it is a simulcast.
Hey, I just solved the problem for Dish in 2 minutes. Do you think they'll take me up on it?