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[quote name=\'catkins522\' post=\'160508\' date=\'Aug 14 2007, 07:29 AM\']
Although, if he was going to pay appox. $10, you can get the "Superstations" from NYC, Denver, LA, and few more channels.
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But yeah, picking up WWOR would get Chad
Temptation, at least -- and if that's all he wants he can even pick that up alone, without buying the whole superstations package. Of course, that assumes that WNEM doesn't invoke syndex, as some MNTV affiliates have done to block WWOR from their markets (and some CW affiliates do with KTLA, WPIX and KWGN).
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It's for Dish Network people only, and you have to live in an area that doesn't offer CW/My on Dish.
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Actually, it's my understanding that the CW and My affils have to request protection from Dish with regard to superstations -- otherwise you can subscribe if they don't care. Many probably do request it now by default, but I know several people who get WWOR and WPIX for baseball even though Dish carries their local My and CW affils. (And of course WSBK is an independent now, so it's not affected at all.) The WNUV/KSWB thing on DirecTV (or the parallel WPIX/KTLA situation on Dish), where the out-of-market station is packaged as a "local," is the one that's only for CW-less markets.
Bay City is one of those, so you would get the stations, but is it really worth $70 a year to see Crosswords?
You forget that we have people who are willing to pay eighty bazillion dollars in an eBay auction for a T-shirt on which someone scribbed "I LIEK PRES YUR LUK" with a magic marker. :-) Not to say Chad is one of those by any means, of course. And besides, there's other stuff on the superstations (though not as much nowadays, I'll grant).
DirecTV generally will only do imports out-of-market CW stations, giving you WUNV-Baltimore if you're in the east or KSWB-San Diego if you're in the west. They generally do not import MyNetwork stations for those markets so impoverished (or strengthened, depending on your beliefs).
DirecTV seems to try not to import out-of-market stations at all, except where they absolutely have to or where the demand is way too high to ignore (see: NYC stations in parts of the Hartford, CT market and vice versa). I'm guessing that's due to the fact that TV station owners were involved then (Hubbard) and now (Fox).
