My son went to dish then back to direct i have never had dish but i do not hear anything good about it so i guess i am stuck unless i sold my home and moved where cable is available. so guess we are stuck watching "The Beverly hillbillies" , "Andy Griffin" & all of the other reruns for the past 40 years :D

Can we say eeeeeew ! That would get on my nerves - I used to love the old shows but only in small doses

Can you not get dish where you are ? or do you not care for it ? I know quite a few people who refuse to pay for tv :rolleyes:- dont know how they do it unless they just hardly ever watch it

I remember they used to try to charge for local channels - at least that's included in pricing now - I have to watch the news every morning and when they wanted to charge - that caused a big uproar with people

Yes dish is available but i am told that it is worse than direct so i never tried it, most require a 2 year contract now so i guess we will keep on with what we have since our contract was up years ago

I think people are getting by by watching shows on hulu or some of the networks have their shows on their websites.

This was on a local station last night I watch that is 25 miles from me.

4-State DirecTV customer says he was misled by ads saying the service carried all local networks
Updated: Jul 20, 2010 6:23 PM CDT
By KEVIN PHELPS

CHEROKEE COUNTY, KAN. - For the past month DirecTV has been advertising they have added local channels to their services. But new DirecTV customers like Cherokee County attorney John Bullard noticed two local stations are not available - CBS and FOX.

"Until we were flipping through channels and realized that we did not have CBS or FOX we didn't know that was going to happen," Bullard told us on Tuesday.

Bullard feels DirecTV has deceived him and has attempted to get an answer from DirecTV, but to no avail.

"Basically they always give the same response that they don't do refunds," Bullard says. "They are not very customer friendly in my mind. I think they have done misrepresentation as far as I'm concerned and I am definitely not happy with their service."

Bullard is not the only person to be misled by the advertisement.

KOAM General Manager Danny Thomas says this came to his attention when the advertisement was sent to local viewers encouraging them to switch to DirecTV.

"Virtually every contact I have had regarding the CBS and FOX located in the ads, they have completely misunderstood and we have to educate them," Thomas says.

The four local channels added are local affiliates for ABC, NBC, PBS and an out of town CW.

Danny Thomas contacted DirecTV right away after being notified of the ads that lead customers to believe they are also able to get CBS and FOX.

"I was told that it wasn't them that sent out the ads but another company and that they would notify that company to stop doing it, unfortunately, I have received several examples of ads since then," Thomas says.

Late Tuesday afternoon DirecTV gave KOAM this response:

"The flyers advertising a DirecTV offer including all four local stations received by some Joplin area residents contained boilerplate language about local channel availability that should have been revised for the local market.

We contacted the local independent dealer when we became aware of the ads and they were immediately removed from circulation.

We are also scrubbing our Joplin market direct mail list to be sure there are no other ads that incorrectly list the local CBS and FOX affiliates as being available via DirecTV in Joplin.

We apologize for the error and any confusion this may have caused."

KOAM General Manager Danny Thomas says as of right now KOAM and FOX 14 have been in negotiations for several months and will continue to work toward an agreement with DirecTV.

We had DirecTV for many years then our unit went out and we had to schedule a service call. We had to wait a week for our appointment then on the day of our service call they called and said they could not make it and we would have to go to the end of the line to schedule another appointment.:mad: It was going to be another week before they would come out so we canceled the DirecTV service and signed up with Dish. I have been happy with the Dish service but my husband liked the way the DirecTV system worked vs the Dish system.

:( wow - never had that problem but have only called service once - they were out the next day and re-wired me. I wasn't crazy how the guy wired me but I didn't have to wait long...

they originally had it running out my front door which flattened the wire - then of course ruined it with all the opening and closing and made my door hard to close - but they did come right out to fix it

I was shocked too when it happened to us. We had had Directv for years. In our area Directv hires subcontractors to do the service calls and apparently they really had a back log but to put us at the end of the line was stupid. After waiting a week they should have worked us in sooner.

I agree 100% - you should have been bumped back to priority after waiting that long. It must be certain areas that do this -

I had issues with Comcast and they used to have pretty decent customer service but it got worse and worse over time - especially when they changed from road runner to Comcast - never had problems before the company took over my original provider

my direct tv has been pretty decent - cept for the outages - one little cloud and I sometimes go down - but normally not for long

We have the new fiberoptic AT&t U verse- I wanted to stay with DISH but they would not renegotiate my contract at the "special" $. I thought for sure they would but... The fiberoptic has a lot more services for the same price,and it stayed up in the storms this afternoon!

So, I log into my Directv account to pay my bill and lucky me!!! They have given me 8 free channels for being such an awesome customer for 2 years.

1 of them is in HD. Thanks:mad:

It doesn't make up for having 3 different tech calls in 1 month!