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It is available until 1/31/02 so you better hurry.:)

Both Dish and Directv will be providing WNDY to Indianapolis beginning January 1st. As you know, Must Carry begins at that time. Television stations must ask that they be placed on satellite without compensation. If they ask for compensation, the satellite provider and station would have to come...

Stay as far away from Digital Sat as you can. They have gone through money problems several times and are not very reliable. Search the Google newsgroups for Orbit Communications and you will see the problems they have had. If you are familar with DBSforums.com the premier DBS website, then...

Define "Hot"? [Edited last by Jon_T on November 12, 2001 at 02:09 AM]

Starz East, Showtime East & West, HBO East, the HD channels and 10 PPV channels are in DD. I have not heard of any of the regular "cable" channels broadcasting in DD so Dish does not have those channels in DD. If you plan on watching any of these channels then it would probably be a good idea to...

Dish scrapped the idea being that you can buy DVD players very cheap now and I guess it was not cost effective for them to do it.

WNET is only available for people who live in the NY DMA and subscribe to the locals package. If you do not live in the NY DMA then will not receive this channel. It is not available in the distant nets package.

If you have never had Dish service in the past then you will be considered a new subscriber. It is not likely the local dealer will sell you a system below the MSRP price as they genreally have higher costs then the internet dealers. If you want a cheap system, then go to...

The WB and UPN networks are not available nationally on DirecTV but if you live within one of the local cities that Directv does carry both networks (New York I think) then you would receive them within your local channel package. This thread might answer some other questions about why WB and...

According to the DirecTV website, your local channels are the NY networks and not the Philly networks. If you are subscribed to the network channels then you should be getting the NY channels. I don't know what channel numbers are on DirecTV.

This is the link. It is also the same one to see if you qualify for local or distant networks. http://www.dishnetwork.com/search/ad...oker/index.asp

At this time, Dish is keeping the superstations but new customers will have to qualify to receive them. I believe current superstation customers are currently grandfathered but that will probably change too. If someone were to go to the Dish website and type in a Los Angeles address, they would...

Starz East and about half of the PPV channels are also DD.

It appears that Dish and Viacom do have a new agreement since Dish added VH-1 Classic to the AT150 and MTV2 moved down to the AT50 package. Viacom owns CBS and has signed an agreement with Dish to provide CBS owned and operated HD channels. These are probably the 18 HD channels mentioned in the...