dish finally getting locals in bluefield/beckley

[no_brains]

i just saw on another site satelliteguys.us
on the uplink report that they finally have the local channels for the bluefield/beckley markey uplinked! i hope that they make them avialable very soon.
i just thought this would be interesting news for those in this area. i have had dish for almost 7 years and have been waiting for this

[weirdude2304]

how can i tell if wheeling,wv/steubenville,oh are uplinked yet?

[no_brains]

i just go there and look at the weekly uplink report that they put out on wednesdays. and thats what i did last week when i saw that they have
wvva, wvns, wvnsd, woay, wswp, wlfb uplinked for the bluefield/beckley/oakhill market. i'm just happy that we may be finally getting them. i have been a dish customer for over 5 years and worked for them at one time and they kept telling me that they are working on them. but now they are uplinked and its about time.

[Ohioankev]

meh, my local dma is Parkerburg WV/Marietta OH it'll be a cold day you know where before they uplink my locals seeing how they only have WTAP which offers one channel (WTAP NBC) and two subchannels (FOX Parkersburg, and MyNetworkTV) and DISH doesn't even have to carry the sub channels. Congrats on your side of the WV border :)

[Raymie]

Actually, they do end up carrying those subchannels if it's a condition of a retrans consent agreement and if they're with a major network (Yuma is a weird exception).

WVNS-DT2 is Fox, by the way.

[dough_boy747]

i just saw on another site satelliteguys.us
on the uplink report that they finally have the local channels for the bluefield/beckley markey uplinked! i hope that they make them avialable very soon.
i just thought this would be interesting news for those in this area. i have had dish for almost 7 years and have been waiting for this

I hope how soon they do we sure do need them forsure, because some of us down in this area needs them, you sure can't get cable around here.

[dough_boy747]

I would like to know if any thing alse was said about this issue on dish?