HD Locals out for 2 days

Sgt. Slaughter said:

This imho is absolutely past the point of being ridiculous and unacceptable!

come out and state wtf is going on?!!! I can take a couple hours of an issue like this but over 24hrs spanning over 2 days now and still going!!!....let us know wtf is the issue and give us a rough time table for when we can expect it fixed or why we can't be given one...

In times its looking like it will take a long time, how about giving those effected access to the ABCE/ABCW and other local channels(389-399)?....oh but b/c the SD channel still works fine ppl should be all good(this is the reasoning I was given for not unlocking the others btw)????? NO! I pay for the HD leader and service...if HD is out for over 24hrs they should unlock the other HD affiliate ie ABCeHD/ABCwHD/CBSeHD/CBSwHD...and so on

I'm not one to get mad much and love DIRECTV but the handling of this situation here is just unacceptable...

Click to expand...

The RDU locals were only out for about 23 hours (from about 4:00 pm until 3:00 pM the next day.

DirecTV could not unlock the distant networks for you even if the local SD and HD were out permanently unless you live beyond the grade B contour map for the local stations or you had a waiver (and the RDU locals do not hand out waivers - I have tried to get a waiver from WRAL for years with no luck). It is the networks and copyright law that prevents DirecTV from unlocking distant networks. DirecTV cannot give you access to any network affiliate other than the RDU affiliates if you live in the RDU DMA. Their hands are tied.

If you live in Raleigh, you should be able to get the local channels OTA, so the only thing you would have lost is the ability to record something in HD for the 23 hours that the HD channels were not on DirecTV.

If the local stations were off completely, as happened during the ice storm of 1989 when one of the main towers in Garner collapsed, the stations might grant a blanket temporary waiver, but even then, I doubt it. In 1989 there were no local stations available via DirecTV, and the network that was lost relocated to channel 40 within a day and stayed there until the tower was replaced.