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Hello again. Vacation time is over, but I kept holding off on posting here until there was some good news to report

Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen in Network “ And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality — one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.” – Arthur Jensen, “Network” In my last post, I promised predictions about the future of television viewing

“Something’s comin’ up And I don’t know what it is Something’s comin’ up And I don’t know where it’s gonna take me” –Barry Manilow My apologies for starting a post with a Barry Manilow lyric. There’s a similar snippet in West Side Story, but that one is more optimistic.

Not the right way to point a dish Just when I thought I had figured out every way to get a dish installation wrong, Mother Nature showed me another one. Earlier this week, some really high winds blew over my primary Ku-band dish, supports and all. First, some background.

Not the right way to point a dish Just when I thought I had figured out every way to get a dish installation wrong, Mother Nature showed me another one.

Beware the zombie satellite Some bloggers make lots of short posts to quickly reflect whatever they care about at the time. So far, I’ve been collecting thoughts and lumping them together.

In a thread in the FTA section of DBSTalk , someone wrote, “I don’t understand why FTA isn’t more popular.” That’s a good question. (Okay, it’s not actually a question, but you get the idea.) There are at least two good reasons why FTA isn’t more popular.

In a thread in the FTA section of DBSTalk , someone wrote, “I don’t understand why FTA isn’t more popular.” That’s a good question. (Okay, it’s not actually a question, but you get the idea.) There are at least two good reasons why FTA isn’t more popular.

Earlier this week, I was getting excited about adding a new over-the-air broadcast channel to FTAList . KNWS (Katy / Houston TX) was in the clear on AMC 21, where it joined all those great PBS feeds. But KNWS isn’t a PBS affiliate

Echostar's a separate company from Dish, so this photo isn't that relevant.