The whole LiL crap needs to just die and go away.. take the NAB and the extortionist members and their dinosaur tech with them!
I have DBS, Dish specifically and I don't live in any rural area, contrary to one post, I have crapble and fiber (Fios) available for video, and choice NOT to purchase said services. I only use data from both..
Dish has been reduced from the AEP I had, since, well I got them... along with the "national" network channels they provided.. I played all the games to keep them for a long time as I couldn't and still don't care where it comes|came (when I got the E/W nationals they were from Podunk nowheres, and that was fine with me.. the same shows were still on!) from so long as SUN AT 2100 I got the Good Wife (there is one excellent show for our other poster, so I named one!
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I've reduced AEP, as the movie channels were an endless barrage of repeated movies I could pull off the shelf or NAS at my lesiure and choosing... The few series that some like HBO had.. that I would watch they cancelled or ended... recently I've dropped the LiL crap too..
Why??? OTA? NOPE! I ditched all live tv for 90% of my viewing it no longer comes in live.. I just suck in the shows and watch on my schedule and when I want.. Thus I get no cliff hanger 2 parter's, hate that! HATE IT! I can binge on an entire series like Happy Valley, oh and there it is too! I get MY SHOWS from WHERE EVER WHEN I WANT... Like Edeavour, and Happy Valley, and Broadchurch... MONTHS BEFORE they will ever air in the US on BBCA or at all... Additionally I don't get any of those annoying ADS ! ! GONE!
OTA and the delivery of OTA via DBS aka LiL is just a waste of transponder space, and a waste of huge resources to cow tail to the NABfia with the spot beam crap... so to the other poster you need to add in the cost of those spot beam sats to the fees for DBS too! A LOT of $$$ was wasted for that crap.
In 2014 ABC, CBS, Fox, CW should just have a channel a la HBO or TNT etc.... Just drop the PITA affiliates... pay the fees to shut them up, and MOVE ON IN LIFE! Let the affiliates survive or die on their own with My, ME, or what ever...
But but but ... what about
sports - couldn't care less! And YOU CAN PAY FOR IT! And they can easily contract with each DBS carrier to offer that.. since 99.99999% of them and more are available... Just authorize the receivers to get the game that ABC etc.. says would have been played in that area.. simple.
News... don't care, in the least.. unless its TECH NEWS... and even then I severely limit the field... 99.999999999999999999999999999% of what gets reported as "news" is not news and/or has NO DIRECT CORRELATION TO MY LIFE, so pefttt! Just like newspapers... useless!
Weather ... WINDOW! Go outside! Wx station, NWR, EMWIN, NOAAPORT, plenty of sources for this! You don't need some bimbo or some dolt flayling around on the screen.
OTA, and LiL are dinosaurs that just need to die.