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taltman711

Feb 25, 2009, 5:50 AM

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For those of you that have Dish and are receiving the network channels from All American Direct--if you are getting Atlanta and San Francisco you are getting them from AAD--as of March 4th, Atlanta will be replaced by New York. These NY channels will be in standard definition only. There are no plans as of yet by AAD to provide the HD counterparts to either SF or NY. They would have to lease another transponder from Dish, and that would get expensive, even if Dish had a free transponder to lease.

Tim

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Feb 25, 2009, 7:48 AM

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Thanks for the info Tim.

JohnnyBoy

Feb 25, 2009, 11:35 AM

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Thanks for that information. It might be good news for me.

I have had my Dish setup for only a very short time. I enjoy watching the evening news sometime between 3:30pm and 7:30pm depending on where it is coming from. I have watched the evening national news most of my life and while I realize it is mostly crap, it is just a habit now, but I resent it being pre-empted by local weather, especially when I am not there.

So far the evening national news from Atlanta has been pre-empted by local "breaking" weather news a lot, with threats of thunderstorms and tornado activity, and frankly I am sick of it. If they pre-empted the national evening news in Kansas where I lived for 30+ years every time the skies got a little gray and cloudy, no one would ever have seen the news. I imagine the people if the greater Atlanta area appreciate the warnings, however.

So, I trust the spring and summer weather will be a little calmer in NYC than it is in Atlanta and I can watch the nationl evening news again.