[BC] Cable rips off HDTV

[Dale Adkins]

My son who is a "satellite junkie" insisted that we set up an FTA motorized 
dish
and it now provides about all of our TV viewing.  We can watch 14 local 
channels
with a 25=foot all channel antenna and a converter box,  but I can't get 
our local NBC station over the air since the change.

The FTA television is pretty much a hobby mode since you are at the mercy of 
the providers as to what they put on the bird and when they do it.  But we 
watch the following channels.

        NBC feeds of Nightly News and other network programs.
        Feeds of MSNBC and CNBC
        An ABC affiliate from the western states
        Two or more Fox affiliates...
        ABC News Now (24 hours)
        Montana PBS
        Two or three stations that program the "THIS" movie channel
        A Texas station that carries some Ranger games
        An Arkansas station that carries some Cardinal games..
         Several other over-the-air stations (most of which are owned by 
Equity
            Broadcasting which is in bankruptcy.)
        Several foriegn news channels in English, including Al Jaziera which 
I prefer to the
            US networks
        Lot's of raw news feeds and back feeds things like college sports 
after you learn              the system
        and for relaxation we watch a channel with a 24 hour live cam on the 
beach
            at Huntington Beach, California.
There are a lot of radio channels, too.
Can't get CBS, CNN, Fox News or ESPN at the moment, but I can always visit 
the local pub for sports    : <)

DA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Bosscher" <tom at bosscher.org>

> Dale,
>
>    Are the cable news channels, CNN, FOX, MSNBC on free to air sat? I
> wouldn't mind putting up an outside antenna for HDTV and then 4 or 5 FTA
> sat rx's to NTSC modulators to create a simple in house CATV system for
> work. I don't like paying for cable all the time, and real quick now I
> will have to get a converter box per TV.
>
>    tom bosscher
>
> Dale Adkins wrote:
>> Not to worry for me.  I have no cable...no Dish Network....no Direct TV.
>> Just my trusty antenna and digital converter box and wireless internet.
>> But I do have a "free to air" satellite dish.  Does anybody else have 
>> FTA?
>> DA
>>
>>
>
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