Carter,
Dish Network was the first DBS company to provide local affiliates. This is breaking news. One of the biggest complaints of DBS was that locals were not available. I thought everyone knew this?
Dish Network is bound by law NOT to provide you your local signals. Certainly, they would love to sell it to you, but legally, they cannot. It is not their fault. I'm surprised they went ahead and gave it to you anyway.
I bet that if you put an antenna in your attic, you could get your local stations. Did you try it?
Also, your local affiliates can challenge you if they wish and make Dish discontinue your local service. Did you know that? If I were you, I would have just kept the one dish for now and ordered Primetime 24. It is $5.99 and it gives you 2 CBS, 2 NBC, 2 ABC, 1 Fox and 1 PBS Station. (See primetime24.com ). Of course, you would not get your local news, and you would have had to lie about your eligibility to get it. It would have saved you the trouble of a second dish for a while.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it just seems to me that you did not do enough homework before you went out and made your purchase. If I were you, I'd start reading some of the newsgroups:
alt.dbs.echostar
rec.video.satellite.dbs
Seriously, no disrespect intended. |
