[Guest]

I didn't the last time I looked. I don't even pay for PBS becausee that's another grandfathered thing I belong to.
I get it the cost of the East&West package.

 

[Guest]

Yep, I lost it a couple of nights ago on DISH Network.
Channel 249 disappeared from the guide. This gives me
another reason to start my subscription to ExpressVu soon.

 

[Guest]

To be honest the need it diminished greatly once I got my Local PBS. Probably saved me a $5 charge for cancelling it

 

[Guest]

D'OH! I lost PBS yesterday!

It's official! I "live" in an area in the Cincinnati DMA that couldn't possibly receive PBS OTA from Cincinnati. But since I can get PBS via DBS, no PBS national feed for me.

Glad I caught it when I did. I had 4 programs set to record on the Dishplayer. I never realized that the local PBS channel doesn't broadcast The Wood Wright's Shop or the New Yankee Workshop! That takes care of my 2 hour block of "watching people work" programs. I'll have to make due with Hometime and This Old House.

See ya
Tony

 

[Guest]

Say TNGTony,

Take a look at the PBS-You schedule. I know they run
New Yankee Workshop, and I think I've seen the Woodwright's Shop
as well on there. It may be a delayed or completely randomized
episode, though.

 

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That if I was watching local PBS and stumbled upon something interesting (that I didn't know about) I could watch it the following day on the 1 day primetime delayed National PBS. But the ability to watch the Britcoms (not on BBC-America) that are on my local PBS more than makes up for it in my book

 

[Guest]

Thanks RJS. The NYWS on PBS you are about a year or so old. But that's okay. The Wood Wright's Shop I think is out of production anyway so they were all reruns.

The problem I have with Dish's feed of the local PBS is that they don't have the "PBS overnight" schedule that WCET feeds warner cable which is the undelayed national PBS feed. So from about midnight or 1am to 6 or 7 am there is nothing but color bars.

See ya
Tony

 

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RJS, I thought you were changing when you sent me that Coupon, you could have watched that PPV by now.

It's got to be hard changing, your gonna miss all of our fun.....Charlie Chats.....etc.

 

[Guest]

It is gone in our area on Directv as well. Channel 384 says "Program not available in your area. Check Program Guide for alternate programming."

We have two local PBS stations in Salt Lake, so I don't particularly miss the national feed.

As an aside, Dish truly charges $5 to change your programming?

 

[Guest]

Dish charges $5.00 to downgrade or modify programming but not to incrtease it. They hae waived it in connection with natioanl pBS.

 

[Guest]

As Geronimo mentioned, there is a $5 "downgrade/sidegrade" fee. If you increase your programming (not just end up paying more a month--i.e. drop the Sports package and pick up HBO) there is no fee. If you drop programming just before the "drop" is forced on you or Dish is forced to drop a channel/package (locals), there is no downgrade fee. Also, the downgrade fee can be waived on a case by case basis. For example, I dropped the annual AT150/Mega Movie Pack and picked up the monthly America's Everything Pack (same number of channels, but it is considered a downgrade--annual to monthly), but since there is no annual package for AEP, the fee was waived by the CSR without my even having to ask.

Finally there is a $10 downgrade/sidegrade fee on adult programming. It seems that some wisecrackers out there figured out that it was cheaper by al long shot to subscribe to an adult channel for a day, record all the movies that day and unsubscribe (about $1 for a day's subscription to the channel +$5 downgrade fee as oposed to the $10 single movie PPV price). So Dish imposed the $10 downgrade fee on the adult channels to prevent the increadible churn on these channels (and loss of revenue).

See ya
Tony