Tribune Broadcasting Company Blacks Out DISH Customers in 33 Markets;

[Joe Capitano]

September 11, exactly 10 days from today. On those which have the preseason, they're paying now.

 

[long_time_DNC]

I've had an amplified HD antenna, mounted just below the dish, from back when the stations were switching over. Don't use it that much (but will now, I guess), but when I do, it's amazing to see just how much crushing of the HD signal Dish is doing. The OTA HD signal is like seeing HD for the first time ... okay, maybe that is a bit over the top, but there is a noticeable difference watching the "clean" signal.

Well, besides being "HD lite" (1440x1080), the signal goes through a lot of equipment, gets encoded/decoded and goes 22k miles up and 22k miles back down...but yes, terrestrial HD does look rather good.

 

[fbara]

So far, this guy's getting $105 for his used Dish OTH USB adapter. But shipping is free!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/201656223539

 

[Chris Walker]

Ask Tribune to compensate you ?

In all seriousness, if you call Dish and raise enough fuss, it's very possible that they will provide you one for free.

Do you have a 722 or a 722k ? I thought the 722 had the OTA adapter built-in (like the 622) ?

722k

 

[Voyager6]

but yes, terrestrial HD does look rather good.

As long as your local OTA station has not crammed in multiple subchannels and robbed the bandwidth for the HD primary channel.

 

[donebu]

As long as your local OTA station has not crammed in multiple subchannels and robbed the bandwidth for the HD primary channel.

Agreed, our local Fox station (WXXV) has added NBC and The CW to its subchannels. The CW was the last one added and it looks like abstract art most of the time.

 

[bobvick]

As long as your local OTA station has not crammed in multiple subchannels and robbed the bandwidth for the HD primary channel.

WTTO CW in Birmingham has Antenna TV on .2, Comet on .3, and GetTV on .4, even with all those subchannels it still looks good. It's sister station WABM has two 720p feeds MyNetwork and ABC and it looks real good.

 

[JTBenson]

 

[vtsat]

Yep! My Channels are back!!!!

 

[rjruby]

channel 17 in Philly is back


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[zippyfrog]

Yep - same here in Chicago

 

[whoopy]

Thank you Nfl

 

[vtsat]

DISH and Tribune Broadcasting Have Reached a Deal
Good News!
We are pleased to announce that DISH and Tribune Broadcasting have reached a long-term comprehensive agreement and your channels have been restored. Thank you for your patience as we worked to reach a deal.

http://dishpromise.com/

 

[vtsat]

Yep - same here in Chicago

Best of luck to Da-Bears!

 

[dare2be]

I've done this successfully before, and I'll do it again: I predict that the Tribune contract will get resolved (or the channels will be restored) by the end of next week, before NFL regular season games begin.

I'm still batting 1.000

 

[charlesrshell]

Got FOX and CW back in St Louis area.

 

[zippyfrog]

Wish we knew who blinked in this, but we will never know. I really thought we would have seen all the locals back but not WGN America.

 

[Chris Walker]

Too bad WGN is back and we all have to pay for that waste but glad this mess is over. Would love to know who blinked but obviously football lit a fire under some arses

 

[Chris Walker]

Oh and good timing on my part getting a OTA module from Dish at midnight last night

 

[Tampa8]

Wish we knew who blinked in this, but we will never know. I really thought we would have seen all the locals back but not WGN America.

Little harder to tell this time. Could be both made concessions they were not prepared to do before. Biggest advertising dollars however are for NFL games, Tribune may have wanted those eyes back.