Millions of Dish customers lose CBS signals, face Thanksgiving without network's football

LA Times ^ | November 21, 2017 | Meg James

[catnipman]

“Millions of Dish customers lose CBS signals, face Thanksgiving without network’s football”

Dish pulls this BS at least once a year and often twice a year. Many years ago when they threatened to cut off Walking Dead, we switched to DirecTV and never looked back.

[OldSmaj]

Nearly 3 million Dish Network subscribers in 18 cities, including Los Angeles, have lost access to their local CBS television station — just two days before Thanksgiving, when many Americans want to watch NFL football.

Oh, the horror.

But it's typical Dish versus the suppliers versus the buyers.

And the buyers lose...although the loss of CBS for NFL purposes is not something I would worry about.

Or for anything else CBS has, except maybe to watch the Bride of Frankenstein, the beastly Gayle King melt down every time some flaming liberal gets caught waving his weeny at somebody.

[mgstarr]

I’ve been watching the Cowboys on Thanksgiving since the mid 60’s (from ‘69 to ‘82 I was at the games). A family tradition. I have Dish and am hosting Thanksgiving. Fortunately my AppleTV has the CBS app and it broadcasts the local CBS station live. Crisis averted.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

AFAIK the blackout rule went away...

[stylin19a]

hey..kewl...thanks for the info.

[shotgun]

Again to a was the older receivers. another unpublished feature was it didn’t count against the number of stations you could record at the same time. so if it said you could record 3 shows at once you could record those 3 plus the OTA shows.

[ConservativeMind]

We got a decent indoor antenna and converter and now get over 35 free channels over-the-air. The antenna was $33 and the converter to make our old TV work was $30.

These were excellent buys that made us only buy 50 Mb Internet for $40/month instead. No more packages with cable for us. Everything is online and on-demand, anyway.

[ConservativeMind]

Amazon lets you download the complete program for offline viewing, if you want to.

We have Amazon Prime and it works well.

[V K Lee]

Thanks! After the Cowboys failed to put their boots on, I lost interest. PS that was a long, long time ago.

[buckalfa]

"Also, these folks need to cut the cord.",

Agreed, but unless you go with a minimalist content package, the costs of cord cutting is sneaking up. Replacing full cable with full internet TV is pretty much a wash.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Our DSL is not fast enough for streaming, but fast enough for overnight torrenting.....;-)

[EEGator]

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Can be a very big loss, the Iron Bowl is on CBS.

RTR

[usconservative]

air TV won’t work for CBS ?

What's this "air TV" you're talking about?

Snicker ...

SHHHHHH!!! Don't tell them, let them thrash about and whine like little girls!!

[oldtech]

Couldn’t care less about the football games,but why should viewers pay for something they are not getting?

[day10]

Have you looked into Kodi?

[trebb]

Yep - we live a bit away from local transmitters but an old antenna (circa 1986) will pull in local network channels.

I left it up as an emergency backup because satellite can be affected by weather at the worst times....

If the complainers still support the NFL - good on the Dish problems...

[foreverfree]

Verizon Fios customers in Lower, Slower Delaware went without the Eye (and OTA Fox) for almost 2 months...

http://www.capegazette.com/article/future-railroad-crossroads-lewes/146147?source=fs&slide=3

ff

[stylin19a]

thanks.
I use it so i can use the picture in picture feature on my TV.