This is not really an HD programming question but it does have HD implications and I could not find another (better?) place to post it.
For more than 20 years we have been receiving NBC, CBS, and ABC via C-band on our dish at our family cabin in the mountains outside of Fresno (just a little south of the southern entrance of Yosemite). Yesterday, our sat program provider, Netlink, informed me that the Denver 5 package is no longer available and that the Prime 24 east coast network feeds will be gone sometime in the Q1 2006. And as of now, there is NO PLACE to get FOX via C-Band.
Is this all true? Have we C-Band owners finally been cut-off for good? It sure sounds like it but I thought I'd check here since you guys know more about the landscape of satellite programming than anyone else.
Oh yes, one more thing, small dish (DirecTV or DISH) apparently is also no longer an option for what we used to call the Big Three networks. Does that sound right?
Our situation in terms of waivers is that we had been grandfathered in for the Denver 5 because we cannot get any OTA. Not sure about how this works now but with cable and satellite access here in the mountains, does that mean the OTA is no longer OTA but OTA via cable or Sat can be had so no more waivers are needed?
For more than 20 years we have been receiving NBC, CBS, and ABC via C-band on our dish at our family cabin in the mountains outside of Fresno (just a little south of the southern entrance of Yosemite). Yesterday, our sat program provider, Netlink, informed me that the Denver 5 package is no longer available and that the Prime 24 east coast network feeds will be gone sometime in the Q1 2006. And as of now, there is NO PLACE to get FOX via C-Band.
Is this all true? Have we C-Band owners finally been cut-off for good? It sure sounds like it but I thought I'd check here since you guys know more about the landscape of satellite programming than anyone else.
Oh yes, one more thing, small dish (DirecTV or DISH) apparently is also no longer an option for what we used to call the Big Three networks. Does that sound right?
Our situation in terms of waivers is that we had been grandfathered in for the Denver 5 because we cannot get any OTA. Not sure about how this works now but with cable and satellite access here in the mountains, does that mean the OTA is no longer OTA but OTA via cable or Sat can be had so no more waivers are needed?