WLOS-TV Translator Issue

[eacalhoun]

This is related to a TV station(and yes, this is a radio board), but I thought this was interesting: Most of Jackson County can no longer receive an OTA signal from WLOS-TV, due to a translator site lease dispute.
Here's the story from the Asheville Citizen-Times:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050922/BUSINESS/50921021/1003

 

[RustyCarr]

> This is related to a TV station(and yes, this is a radio
> board), but I thought this was interesting: Most of Jackson
> County can no longer receive an OTA signal from WLOS-TV, due
> to a translator site lease dispute.
> Here's the story from the Asheville Citizen-Times:
>
http://www.citizen-times.co> m/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050922/BUSINESS/50921021/1003
>

Just get the dish. Even the most dilapidated shacks and trailers I've ever seen had a freakin' DirecTV or Dish Network dish attached to it. So, this argument that many people can't afford one is weak. If ya want one bad enough, you'll get one.

 

[tk]

> > This is related to a TV station(and yes, this is a radio
> > board), but I thought this was interesting: Most of
> Jackson
> > County can no longer receive an OTA signal from WLOS-TV,
> due
> > to a translator site lease dispute.
> > Here's the story from the Asheville Citizen-Times:
> >
> http://www.citizen-times.co>
> m/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050922/BUSINESS/50921021/1003
>
> >
>
> Just get the dish. Even the most dilapidated shacks and
> trailers I've ever seen had a freakin' DirecTV or Dish
> Network dish attached to it. So, this argument that many
> people can't afford one is weak. If ya want one bad
> enough, you'll get one.
>

Seems to me like you'd make an excellent DirecTV or Dish Network dealer
in Jackson County. From what you say, you'd make a killing...

 

[w9wi]

> Just get the dish. Even the most dilapidated shacks and
> trailers I've ever seen had a freakin' DirecTV or Dish
> Network dish attached to it. So, this argument that many
> people can't afford one is weak. If ya want one bad
> enough, you'll get one.

What's the subscription, $30-something a month? $5 more for locals? That's $400-something a year, not negligible.

In some areas, cable systems are fed via translator.

If you're far enough in the hollow that you don't have a clear view to the south (admittedly this is relatively few people - but a lot more likely around there than in, say, Kansas) the dish isn't going to work very well...