The Satellite Dish
The Consumer Satellite Industry through the eyes of WWW.SatelliteGuys.US Founder Scott Greczkowski
Dish Reaches Another HD Milestone
This week Dish Network lit up another four local into local high definition markets bringing their total HD markets up to 150. With these new additions Dish Network now serves over 92% of their customers with HD locals. The HD local cities that launched this week were Ft. Wayne, Indiana.; La Crosse-Eau Claire, Wisconsin.; Panama City, Florida; and Wausau-Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Dish Networks HD l ...... Read More
Comments (0)A Win For The Cable Guys
Greetings once again, I am on my way back to our home port in Port Canaveral in Florida from the Bahamas. I am sitting poolside typing this and it feels great out here on this ship. The cable companies had a huge victory this week as the United States Supreme Court decided that cable companies could allow its customers to store their DVR recordings on hard drives at the cable companies headends ...... Read More
Comments (7)It’s Been a Sad Vacation
Greetings from Grand Bahama Island in the Bahamas where my family vacation continues. While my vacation has been great so far it has also been a sad one as well. When my vacation first started I learned the news of the passing of Ed McMahon. This was sad to me as I grew up with Mr. McMahon on my television set. From sitting on the side of Johnny with the Tonight Show all the way though watching ...... Read More
Comments (1)Goodbye Mr. Zellner
Today I spend the day walking around the Magic Kingdom, and got a text message, which was pure magic for me, the news was that John Zellner was leaving Sirius XM to take a job at Clear Channel Communications. If you have been reading the Satellite Dish for any length of time you will know I have been critical as of late about satellite radio. I have been a subscriber to both Sirius and XM since bo ...... Read More
Comments (3)Discovery Tops Satellite Survey
If you ask me what my favorite station is on satellite I won’t hesitate to tell you that out of all the hundreds of channels my favorite has to be the Discovery Channel. Seems as though most satellite customers would answer the same way, and in fact they did. In the 2009 Beta Research Satellite Dish Subscriber Study Discovery Channel ranked number one in importance to the enjoyment of sate ...... Read More
Comments (3)Tennis is Served
This week DirecTV serves its customers exclusive Wimbledon Tennis coverage. Besides offering the standard coverage customers will see matches shown no where else. In addition DirecTV will be presenting a mosaic of 6 screens. And as always DirecTV gets interactive and offers features such as an interactive match guide, recent results and men and woman’s draws. In addition DirecTV is offeri ...... Read More
Comments (1)Sirius-ly Flawed
So today is the big day many Satellite Radio fans have been waiting for, it’s the day that the long awaited Sirius XM application for the iPhone is released. At midnight the application was released to the iTunes store and many of the folks who were happy that the long awaited program was being released are not so happy. It seems the program is missing the one thing that they really wanted ...... Read More
Comments (8)Good News for Sirius XM / DirecTV Free Preview
Satellite radio fans who own iPhone appear to have gone good news coming their way tomorrow. It appears that tomorrow Sirius XM will finally release the long awaited official Sirius XM iPhone application. While not officially confirmed by Sirius XM, emails from Sirius XM customer support seem to indicate that the release of the long awaited software is indeed tomorrow. Here is a copy of the email ...... Read More
Comments (0)How Much Would You Pay?
So the great Digital Transition has now taken place, and from what I can tell other then a few minor scratches we made it through things fine. With the big digital transition gone from the law books are the laws of “grade b” signals. And because that law is no longer in effect Dish Network customers are now permitted to subscribe to distant networks from All American Direct. The new ...... Read More
Comments (12)Watching Analog Television Go Bye-Bye
Today is the big switchover for broadcasters to move from Analog to Digital. Here in Connecticut many of the stations decided to do their switchover during the day. I have sat here in my office with two portable 5-inch black and white televisions watching the analog channels go off one by one. Most of the signals have just gone poof, from showing programming to snow with no fanfare at all, while ...... Read More
Comments (6)Fisher Channels Return to Dish Network
With no fanfare at all the local channels owned by Fisher Communications returned to the Dish Network lineup overnight. The return of these channels comes as a surprises as on Monday nights Charlie Chat, Dish Network CEO discussed the Fisher situation and said, “We are not really close on an agreement today.” Then Charlie went on and told people how they would be able to order dista ...... Read More
Comments (10)Charlie Chat Surprise / iPhone Thoughts
For the majority of last nights Charlie Chat with Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen it was a bore fest. However for many viewers it contained a nice surprise. The big surprise was Charlie announcing that HD distant network locals would be available from All American Direct starting on Saturday June 13th. It seems like a law that would keep them from offering these networks expires when the analog ch ...... Read More
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