Originally posted by: S13SilviaK
Yeah for some reason UPN isn't available, LA market area.
I counted, but it's late, I could have missed something.
You can get UPN in LA with dish.
LA has one of the best locals package going. If you did not count the locals you need to revise your numbers.
"distant UPN" is not available. I have that and it's splendid. I have multiple times to watch buffy and enterprise. DOH they just canceled buffy and enterprise is floundering in time travel. Oh well here's the LA locals for ya:
Station Local Channel Number Dish Channel Number
LOS ANGELES ABC-KABC (LOCALS) 7 8000
LOS ANGELES CBS-KCBS (LOCALS) 2 8001
LOS ANGELES FOX-KTTV (LOCALS) 11 8003
LOS ANGELES IND-KCAL (LOCALS) 9 8007
LOS ANGELES NBC-KNBC (LOCALS) 4 8002
LOS ANGELES PBS-KCET (LOCALS) 28 8006
LOS ANGELES UNVSN-KMEX (LOCALS) 34 8008
LOS ANGELES UPN-KCOP (LOCALS) 13 8005
LOS ANGELES WB-KTLA (LOCALS) 5 8004
LOS ANGELES AZTECA-KAZA (LOCALS/SPANISH)* 54 8011
LOS ANGELES IND-KADY (LOCALS)* 63 8015
LOS ANGELES IND-KJLA (LOCALS/SPANISH/SHOPPING)* 57 8022
LOS ANGELES IND-KRCA (LOCALS/SHOPPING)* 62 8016
LOS ANGELES SPANISH IND-KWHY (LOCALS/SPANISH)* 22 8023
LOS ANGELES IND-KSCI (LOCALS/INTERNATIONAL)* 18 8017
LOS ANGELES IND-KHIZ (SHOPPING/LOCALS)* 64 8019
LOS ANGELES IND-KDOC (LOCALS/GENL ENTERTAINMENT)* 56 8018
LOS ANGELES IND-KXLA (LOCALS/INTERNATIONAL)* 44 8020
LOS ANGELES IND-KVMD (LOCALS/RELIGIOUS)* 31 8021
LOS ANGELES PBS-KLCS (LOCALS)* 58 8012
LOS ANGELES PBS-KVCR (LOCALS)* 24 8014
LOS ANGELES PBS-KOCE (LOCALS)* 50 8013
LOS ANGELES TELEF-KFTR (LOCALS/SPANISH)* 46 8010
LOS ANGELES TMNDO-KVEA (LOCALS/SPANISH)* 52 8009
If you already have "brought" in to directv there really is no reason to change, it's like comparing apples and apples, they are both great and in a lot of markets are better choices then the local cable monopoly.
Nice thing about directv is you seem to have more choices when it comes to recievers.
OTOH I really like how Dish lets you rent the equipment. Installation was free for 3 rooms, and if anything goes wrong I just call them and it gets fixed.
I have'nt even touched my dish, no reason to, I have "brought" in to nothing, if directv sudenly is 10000 times better I'll dump dish and go with news corp to be's offerings.
Cable here was silly. Just to get the comedy channel and sci-fi channel required digital service, digital box rental, digital line fees. Dish cost the same, but intallation was free (cable wanted $100 for everything, dorks) and I got more channels. I looked at directv but at the time, installation and hardware costs were excessive (i'm comparing to cable startup) and the wb/upn/local package was not as good.