DISH DROPS LOCAL CHANNEL

Channel Master Over the Air sweet antenna

Sorry Ammo, I couldn't resist!

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ammo posted:

So DISH Network has dropped my local channel that would carry tonights game( Channel 19 LaCrosse).   Had a long discussion with both Channel 19 and DISH this morning, to no avail.  I hope someone will post some good streaming links when the game gets close to starting.  THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn ammo......good luck getting the game to watch.  

Cavetoad posted:

 

I remember a few years back our cable company had a temporary battle with one of the local TV stations where they dropped them and I did buy an antenna for that situation.  But nothing as awesome as that cool one Cavetoad posted.  That thing looks like it might pick up stations from other galaxies.

Unfortunately, I'm just at the edge of the Albany market, so some of the stations don't come in at all, while there's a hill between us and NYC so I can't get those at all.

thats  to bad AMMO,  did u notice how they waited for the Packer game, to stop airing.  they have been scrollng on the bottom of the screen since sunday  on the wausau channel.   Run down to your local tv store,  (walmart)  and buy, / rent / burrow one of their INDOOR antennas for tonights game, and take it back tomorrow.   

See if you can get Sling or YouTube TV before the game starts!

Cut the cord like 7 or 8 years ago.  This is strapped to my chimney. Gets 45 channels.

When I first cut, I made this one.  Got 31 channels at it's peak.  A friend still uses it.

Not to mention the aesthetic benefits.

Brak posted:

Cut the cord like 7 or 8 years ago.  This is strapped to my chimney. Gets 45 channels.

When I first cut, I made this one.  Got 31 channels at it's peak.  A friend still uses it.

Not to mention the aesthetic benefits.

 

That homemade one is freaking AWESOME Brak!

I don’t think Sling offers local channels.  Hulu TV might though... they probably offer a free trial subscription.  All you need is a streaming device (Roku, AppleTV, Firestick, etc) and WiFi. 

It's a Pre-Season game & are any starters even sniffing the field tonight?

I'm not too worried about seeing it live. I'll catch the replay if I miss anything.

I've made a few of the homemade ones.  It is easy and cheap to make.  I found if you made the "V"s progressively longer you pick up more frequencies and more channels.  I get most of Austins channels in Horseshoe Bay.

fightphoe93 posted:

Cavetoad posted:

 

I remember a few years back our cable company had a temporary battle with one of the local TV stations where they dropped them and I did buy an antenna for that situation.  But nothing as awesome as that cool one Cavetoad posted.  That thing looks like it might pick up stations from other galaxies.

That's what I put up where my old old dish used to be... I added the 16db in line booster too and it rocks.  I can pick up ION out of St. Cloud through a tree from south of the TCs.  

60 base channels and probably 36 after I filter out the religious, spanish, and Asian channels.

The Madison Dish channel 27  is also blocked for the game for the same reason. BUT its on Telemundo channel 17 here. A Spanish channel. So you get a bunch of gibberish in between players names, but its at least on TV in my neck of the woods.

That "gibberish" is an actual language called Spanish. You should check it out. 

DISH cut two channels from the Duluth, MN feed, as well.  Friends of mine, in my hometown,  can still get Packers games but lost access to their favorite news outlets. This is a big deal in northwoods Wisconsin!  The local cable company does not offer service to rural addresses. My friends may be able to switch to an Eau Claire feed, if their contract allows it, but Eau Claire does not carry the news from their area and there is no CBS affiliate in Eau Claire. Cable and satellite providers have become so unreliable of late, I feel we may all be going back to a large antennae array system in order to get minimal, basic programming.

Eddie posted:

I've made a few of the homemade ones.  It is easy and cheap to make.  I found if you made the "V"s progressively longer you pick up more frequencies and more channels.  I get most of Austins channels in Horseshoe Bay.

Ah, this might be a million dollar idea Eddie......just saying.  Might be a patent involved, but I can see you on Shark Tank selling these.     Lots of us wouldn't know how to build one, but would be interested in buying one from you.  

That goes for you too Cavetoad.......yikes, I know people are sick and tired of fighting with their entertainment companies and would love to buy a reasonable priced antenna.  

Thanks Goldie, I did finally cut the cord and haven't missed it one bit.  By dropping Spectrum and turning in my cable boxes, my bill went from $215 to $70.   That antenna and all the extra bits (booster, hunk of conduit, cable/connectors) paid for itself in a month.

https://antennaweb.org/ is the site anyone can use to see how far, what type of signal, and what direction your local stations are along with a reasonable estimate for what and how many channels you could receive.

Cavetoad posted:

Thanks Goldie, I did finally cut the cord and haven't missed it one bit.  By dropping Spectrum and turning in my cable boxes, my bill went from $215 to $70.   That antenna and all the extra bits (booster, hunk of conduit, cable/connectors) paid for itself in a month.

https://antennaweb.org/ is the site anyone can use to see how far, what type of signal, and what direction your local stations are along with a reasonable estimate for what and how many channels you could receive.

Gonna look into it, and thanks.

Cavetoad posted:

Brak posted:

Cut the cord like 7 or 8 years ago.  This is strapped to my chimney. Gets 45 channels.

Not to mention the aesthetic benefits.

 

That homemade one is freaking AWESOME Brak!

At first I thought it was Lucille from the Walking Dead...

Cable and satellite providers have become so unreliable of late, I feel we may all be going back to a large antennae array system in order to get minimal, basic programming.

It takes two to tango -- the content providers are also part of it.

Back in the early days of DirecTV, the cable outlets used the fact that they were required to carry local broadcast stations and DirecTV were in most cases barred from doing so as a selling point.  That didn't work for the bottom line, so the cable companies tried to gt the rules change to force satellite providers to provide those local stations too, the thinking being that this would reduce the satellite providers' bandwitdh to carry cable channels.  (This was the 90s, when having 40 channels was a big deal.)

Cavetoad posted:

Thanks Goldie, I did finally cut the cord and haven't missed it one bit.  By dropping Spectrum and turning in my cable boxes, my bill went from $215 to $70.   That antenna and all the extra bits (booster, hunk of conduit, cable/connectors) paid for itself in a month.

https://antennaweb.org/ is the site anyone can use to see how far, what type of signal, and what direction your local stations are along with a reasonable estimate for what and how many channels you could receive.

Antennaweb is good, I use TV Fool for alignment too.  

mr21mr21 posted:

Cavetoad posted:

Brak posted:

Cut the cord like 7 or 8 years ago.  This is strapped to my chimney. Gets 45 channels.

Not to mention the aesthetic benefits.

 

That homemade one is freaking AWESOME Brak!

At first I thought it was Lucille from the Walking Dead...

Brak's mail box:

Blair Kiel posted:

mr21mr21 posted:

Cavetoad posted:

Brak posted:

Cut the cord like 7 or 8 years ago.  This is strapped to my chimney. Gets 45 channels.

Not to mention the aesthetic benefits.

 

That homemade one is freaking AWESOME Brak!

At first I thought it was Lucille from the Walking Dead...

Brak's mail box:

How many channels does it get?

Masonic sermons on Sunday.

And the Silent Killer Channel.

No one wants to provide anything economical for us out in the country (except over the air). Fine. So we bought the antenna for digital and because of our location we get both Madison and Milwaukee stations. Most of the time we just watch DVDs from Netflix, if we watch anything at all. (Well, we do watch certain football teams and I like the mysteries on WPT.  

How do you see Matlock? 

Eddie posted:

Blair Kiel posted:

mr21mr21 posted:

Cavetoad posted:

Brak posted:

Cut the cord like 7 or 8 years ago.  This is strapped to my chimney. Gets 45 channels.

Not to mention the aesthetic benefits.

 

That homemade one is freaking AWESOME Brak!

At first I thought it was Lucille from the Walking Dead...

Brak's mail box:

How many channels does it get?

As long as it gets the Mike McCarthy show @Brak will be good. 

I'm with you, my brother  .

People living in Wisconsin complaining they can't watch the Packers??????????????????

Not really complaining about not watching the Packers. Complaining about paying for something they DISH are not providing.