Re: Dish adding 22 new HD channels

On Thu, 15 May 2008 06:56:26 -0700 jack ak <akjack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| www.locoworks.com wrote:
|> On May 15, 4:37?am, phil-news-nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
|>
|>> OTOH, neither DishNet nor DirecTV will provide my locals via the
satellite.
|>> So OTA is the only option for me.
|>>
|>
|> directv will provide locals... but you have to get a letter from each
|> local station granting permission.  This requires communication
|> between Directv and you as to which stations they require letters from
|> (they can have very strange beliefs about which station serves your
|> area), then letters from those stations saying that it's OK for
|> Directv to authorize you the signal.  It took us about three weeks and
|> several phone calls, but we finally got some excellent quality network
|> programming on all three majors and on Fox.  Persistance is the key.
|>
| 
| Why should one need a letter granting permission for subscribing
| to local channels?

In my case, THEIR perception of what my locals are (based on my zip code
mapping to DMA 159) and what my locals _actually_ are (DMA 22) is
different.


| Were you describing the process for receiving Distant Networks?
| If so, do you get the feeds from both East and West coasts?

I don't want the feed from NYC or LA.  I want the locals from DMA 22 which
are on the spot beam that serves my location.

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