So are we going to see a huge surge in uplink activity on Jun 3rd?
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Yep, just about 10 months now. http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-forum/183473-dish-sues-disney.htmlThen switch, we have been reporting this for months now.
Back in the 70s before MTS for TV, some of the local channels (WAPA and WKAQ specifically) in PR would put the English soundtrack of dubbed programs on their FM stations. It's not a new idea, but I think that the market just wasn't there. I am not sure if locals use SAP for English on dubbed programs any more. I am sorry to say I haven't been to PR in 3 years and the last several times I was there, TV was not a priority.
But providing English soundtrack for a Spanish program is not as easy as it sounds. It's expensive and the market is limited. Things like "Lucha Libre" and Fútbol are much easier to do. It requires a separate announce team, audio people and producers, but is much cheaper than translating scripted shows that use lots of word-play (things don't translate directly).
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Tony
Dish has a channel that does exactly that, called "MUN2".
It is Latino programming with entirely English language audio.
It is designed for 12-30 year olds living in Hispanic households, who grew up speaking English.
In certain respects, it is like MTV for latino kids, there are a lot of music videos, in fact, Friday and Saturday night they have a 3-4 hour block of music videos called Party Mix that includes all the dance-oriented Top 40 hits (e.g. Lady Gaga, Blackeyed Peas, etc) and all the dance-oriented hits from all of Latin America.
Anyway, there is also some sports programming in English, such as Mexican League soccer and WWE Raw - but I don't currently see Lucha Libre in the schedule...
Also, Telemundo has English subtitles for their Nighttime Soaps:
Most hispanic primetime programming consists of soaps... hispanic soaps are called "telenovelas" because they are mini-series with a pre-defined ending.
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A year or two ago, the local Telemundo affiliate here is Los Angeles was advertising that they were putting closed captioning in English on CC3 but it never seemed materialize. I've yet to find a program that has it.
Then switch, we have been reporting this for months now.
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Do not expect any existing national HD to move to 61.5W. I wouldn't expect anything CONUS to be added to 61.5W until late summer (assuming all goes well with E15).
If you're in an EA market, you need to contemplate converting.
Dish will be offering all 210 local markets on June 3rd.
FCC rules prohibit a customer from being offered Distant Networks instead of (or in addition to) their local market Networks.
By simple process of elimination, this does not leave anyone who can get Distant Networks from Dish Network Corporation, except for registered RV owners.
Currently, Dish Network customers who qualify for Distant Networks can get them on their Dish Network receivers from "All American Direct", a separate and independent company. Since it offers none of the local markets (other than SF or NY), it does not have to worry about that FCC rule.
I don't know what "FCC rules" are involved but I always thought that the definition of an unserved household in STELA and the predecessor laws has to do with the ability of a household to receive a signal by antenna----not whether the satellite carrier carries the network affiliates.
According to at leat one article I found there might actually be MORE people eligible for distant nets now since the definition of "antenna" is a bit different.
I also thought that AAD customers only qualified for distants because they lived (or claimed to live) in areas without adequate reception. You could not simply get distants because AAD did not offer your locals as that had no bearing on whether you qulaified for distants.
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AAD is an independent satellite company (and has be ruled as such by the Federal Courts). If you can't receive a network via an antenna, you qualify for distant networks whether or not you also subscribe to Dish.
Exactly TNGTony
I called AAD a month or so ago to see if I qualify. According to them my cabin address qualifies for all but CBS which is the same as what I qualified for with Dish back in 05/06 before they lost the ability to sell distants
Only local in the area is CBS
so technically one can sub to AAD for distants and locals through Dish, Lots of folks right now probably do that
I called AAD a month or so ago to see if I qualify. According to them my cabin address qualifies for all but CBS which is the same as what I qualified for with Dish back in 05/06 before they lost the ability to sell distants
Only local in the area is CBS
so technically one can sub to AAD for distants and locals through Dish, Lots of folks right now probably do that
In Puerto Rico I used to have AAD but the picture quality is bad since the tower of our locals are in the west part of the Island and are Low Power everybody qualifies
Once upon a time. But when SHERVA was updated for HD Distants, the following 2 restrictions were added:
1) HD DNS must be in a time zone that is the same time or later (except for AK & HI). ie, no East Coast feeds for anyone in Mountain or Pacific.
2) If a Local affiliate is offered by the provider, than no DNS is allowed for that network.
When those rules came out, Directv applied them to SD as well. Dish didn't, but soon got banned from offering any DNS so the issue about HD/SD became mute.
AAD only applies them against HD though, so West Coasters can get East Coast SD feeds, but not HD feeds. Also since AAD doesn't offer any locals, they can offer SD and/or HD feeds to anyone who qualifies.
Thanks derwin. I was unaware of that and it conflicts with some other cites but I believe you.
