While a few Baltimore, MD and Columbia, SC residents were lamenting the fact that May-bound launches such as Richmond, VA
occurred before they got their
own taste of HD locals, hopefully we can now put aside all that angst. Announced today, Baltimore and Columbia are joining Green Bay, WI in the HD locals parade, and seeing that there is no mention of any networks
being left out, we're going to hesitantly assume that the trio of markets all have access to their respective ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX stations. Fire up the HD DVR and let us know how it goes, would you?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jboy @ Apr 16th 2008 11:37AM
Looks like Dish is wasting what little bandwidth they have on local hd channels.
National HDs must be a long time off now....
Goto directv if you are truely a fan of HD.
eric53110 @ Apr 16th 2008 11:51AM
So, where is the more HD National love? When is that coming....
jboy @ Apr 16th 2008 1:06PM
They arent...
Dish wasted all of their money on the 700 spectrum auction.
Get Directv right now if you are fan of HD
scagnetti @ Apr 16th 2008 12:43PM
Just called Dish for my "FREE HD UPGRADE" Free upgrade my @$$! I was told I would have to restart a new contract for a 24 month commitment and they have to install a new dish. Is this new contract negotiation legit?? I call BS. OTA forever.
braindead360 @ Apr 16th 2008 1:30PM
Please Dish!!! Use what little bandwidth you have left to start rolling out the national channels that we've been waiting for. USA, Sci Fi, etc. If the people want their local channels in HD, the can do like a majority of the market has been doing by plugging in an antenna to the OTA tuner on the receivers.
Nat559 @ Apr 16th 2008 2:28PM
When they added Austin locals, they added them to the 60.5 satellite that requires an additional satellite dish.
Hopefully these new locals are all being added on the secondary satellite to save bandwidth on the primary satellites.
Mark @ Apr 16th 2008 3:20PM
WLUK (Green Bay's FOX affiliate) confirmed on their website that they are now available on Dish Network. No idea if that's true, or what other GB channels are up, because I can't get Dish where I live.
This is WLUK's first HD carriage in the Green Bay market. They've danced around a deal with DirecTV ever since 2006 when DirecTV first launched Green Bay locals in HD, and WLUK supposedly has little or no interest in cable either.