I’m with Comcast. Satellite isn’t an option with reception issues for me. And Verizon doesn’t come here.
There’s some talk about our local power company (yes, we have one...) possibly getting into the cable business. They already provide high-speed wireless Internet, have for years. But that talk remains just that.
They say they have a cable provider up in Wisconsin willing to link into the fiber network we’re tied into, we’d have to handle the routing this side of the State line. But last I heard, that’s just, well, talk...
Yeah, the point wasn’t to say “go DirecTV/Dish!”, but that the network is broadcast in HD. It’s your cable company that isn’t “going HD” with the channel, not the network. Yet another reason to hate the monopolistic b****rds.
Where I live 1 mile from my town's border in Montana I cannot get cable, natural gas or (due to my proximity to a mountain range) most FM broadcast stations - all local.
As such we have Dish.
Happy St. Patty's day to you (a wee bit early).