I am so utterly disgusted with all of this darn DTV baloney! So many hardworking honest people bought the lies and spent their money on antennaes, converter boxes, new tv's, etc....all for nothing.

So just whose pockets got stuffed with all the lobby dollars to do this lame "digital conversion"? Hmmm, think it was the cable companies?

When I went to Charter here in Escanaba a couple of years ago to ask just when they thought we might be able to get cable at our new home, I was astonished when the lady at the counter snarled a reply of "never!" She actually, truly said NEVER! Huhhh?? Our neighbors 1 BLOCK away get cable! And you know what? I see that WLUC does not offer any price adjustements to their advertisers, even though with the "conversion" they have lost I figure about 1/3 of their viewing public. Making those advertising dollars that much less effective - not something I would choose to pay for anymore. Why spend signicicantly more money on media advertising for significantly less coverage?

And the irony? Charter continues to mail flyers to my home spouting the incredible value cable television offers! Whatever!!!!!

Thanks for letting me vent......for all the good it's gonna do.

Who or how will it be decided which fox station is the local fox service the Escanaba area? Will it be (Channel 19 Marquette area) Fox station which carries only the Lions games? Or will be Channel 11 (which has a UHF tower at the Danforth ski hill In Escanaba) They carry only Packer games? So who and how do they decide what I can watch on my TV?

We live in Daggett in Central Menominee County. Dish Network says we are in the Green bay market so all we can get are the Green Bay channels. It makes no sense. We live in Michigan and can only get Wisconsin channels..except for the sports channels, then we get the Michigan (Detroit)channels.

was just told by dish network, because we live in menominee county, and can get the stations from green bay we will not be able to get tv 6 , Bart Stupek where are you on this one!!!!!!!! guess we just keep on reading the news on the computer.

WLUC TV = With Luck U See TV

I knew this digital conversion would be a disaster for yoopers! "Just buy the converter box" they say "and you'll get all your channels free"...and I couldn't pull in anything but PBS. Then they say "you might need to buy a new antenna"...I will not! Now, I'm all set up with dish network and was thrilled to finally have Green Bay local channels and anxiously awaiting to get TV6 thru them...after a phone call last night to dish...they tell me I do not qualify for TV6...I GIVE UP!

I can't believe i'm soon to be charter free!!!!!! I priced out my dish setup and it's going to cost me $53 a month AFTER my promo 6 months. I'm currently paying $96.77 For my Charter T.V. ONLY.

Can't wait!

I added local channels thru the dish website which adds $5 to my bill.
it says tv6, abc10, and pbs13 will be added to the dish. it takes a couple hours for the programmers to
pick up the order and then these channels will show up. the news article says cbs will be added later, but nobody mentions fox which carries most of the packer games..

Just got off of the phone with Dish Network, simple upgrade of dish, to be installed on friday, and channels 6, 10 & 13 will be able to be watched on dish as locals. Finally I can get rid of Charter basic, and all three local were only 5.99 a month, much better than the almost 20 I was paying to Charter.

We are so glad the WLUC-TV6 will now be available on Dish Network. After living without local news for many years, we look forward to the opportunity of watching the TV6 news every night. We live in an area that doesn't offer cable and the (very tall) antenna that stood on our property didn't pick up TV6. We don't mind paying the monthly fee in order to have the local channels added to our programming. It is much better than paying for NBC and CBS out of New York or Atlanta.

A BIG THANK YOU goes out to everyone who helped make this happen!

I called Dish at 7:40, and by 7:50PM (CT) I have an appointment for Saturday afternoon installation. I have the older installation, and need a newer one. The woman I talked to was very nice, I'll just be glad to have TV6 back in my morning routine!!

we are getting abc nbc and pbs and they are available as of july 9 at 5pm to make a sevice apointment and the tecnitions will be able to set us up and other local channels as they sign onboard

yeah

Today's press release from DISH Network states:

"Standard definition local channels become available to DISH Network subscribers at approximately 7 p.m. EST on July 8, 2009."

and

"DISH Network customers in Marquette, Mich. can subscribe to their local channels for an additional $5 per month the morning after the channels have launched."

I would assume this means that although the channels may be launching Wednesday night, the DISH customer service department may not have the ability to sign you up until Thursday morning.

The Marquette local channels package will include WBUP (ABC) Ch. 10, WLUC (NBC) Ch. 6 and WNMU (PBS) Ch. 13. WJMN (CBS) Ch. 3 will be launched at a later date.

Also, be aware that some subscribers with older installations will need to upgrade their equipment to the newer HD-capable dish in order to receive the local channels package. The current plan is to offer one standard-definition (SD) channel for each local TV station.

I hope this helps clear up confusion for DISH subscribers.

Had you been paying attention over the past year, you would know TV6 is planning on puttin up a taller tower with a stronger signal that costs TV6 a lot of money to provide all you whiners with FREE TV. So suck it up for a while and get your free news right here if you dont want to pay for it. Its really very simple.

Seems everybody who lives in the cities of the U.P who are able to get Cable are ok with this. Guess what? Again-the majority of yoopers don't live in a city and can't get cable.
And about the paying for the Priviledge of being able to see WLUC TV.
Why even put up a Digital Signal tower when most people can't pick it up.
And about the "Magical" part-Some master schemes to rip off the public are long in the planning

i get free internet from a coffee house just down the street but i can't get it unless i go outside down to the sidewalk.should i start complaining about them because they aren't broadcasting a large enough signal? there is no such thing as a freebie today. everything comes with a payment of some sort like walking down to the street.

"Dish Network magically come in and offer people the "Ability" to get Channel 6"
I guess you have missed that they have been trying to get this "ability" for several years. nothing in this world is free. why should you get free tv? I pay for my cable because I want it. You want tv then pay for it.

How Ironic. WLUC puts out a weak signal that the majority of people in the U.P can't pick up and then Direct TV and Dish Network magically come in and offer people the "Ability" to get Channel 6. Dish Network for $60 a year and who knows what Direct Is going to charge.
C'mon WLUC-Fess up. How much are you getting for allowing us the "Priviledge" to watch your Station?
Add up all yoopers who don't live in the cities(the majority)who don't get cable and pick up the signal via Antenna's and converter boxes and you've got an awful lot of money coming in. My understanding is that both Direct TV and Dish have their equipment at WLUC and I know 6 isn't allowing that for free.
This whole thing was one grand Scam

do you really think that this article would still be the first story on their website 24 hours later if it wasn't true?

I contacted the new owners of FOX 14 and if FOX agrees to affiliate with the new owners, they will air Lions games. Hope it helps.

After the debacle with the useless converter box we get NO local programming including WNMU at my location on the west side of Keweenaw Bay.After reading the above article, I called DISH and the rep I talked with knew nothing about local programming being available! I guess we'll wait until tonight to see if it magically pops up. I suspect that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. In the meanwhile I'd guess WLUC has lost a third of its market(or more). The longer people go without local programming the more they may come to realize they can live WITHOUT it!

We'll just wait and see what happens after 6pm tonight. I have my doubts in dish network just like others.

This morning we received a mass mailing from Dish Network saying that TV-6 would be available from them as of today for $5.00. Wait til 7 and give them a call.

i'm sure it will be the entire UP, not just a city. that makes no sense for Dish Network. As the story tells everyone...you have to wait until 7 PM! These people working the phones don't know anything except what the computer is telling them. once they go online with the channels you'll be able to add them. chill out and wait. i just got off the phone and they said i won't be able to do this and i live in marquette. CHILL!!!

I just got off the phone with a dish network representative. She told me that TV6 is not available to me at this time. It should be sometime this summer, but she ded not know when. Maybe it will be available to people in Marquette, but not to us in the remote area of felch/foster city. If anyone out there was told anything different, please post.

Channel 24 on Charter is the Green Bay Fox channel so you shouldn't have any problem catching Pack games. It's the diehard Lions fans like me who are in trouble if they don't get the Ch 14 Fox on the air. With new ownership of the Fox 14, we can only hope they decide to broadcast Lion games.

If I heard correctly on the morning news, I thought they said the Marquette area will be able to add on local channels, nothing about any other areas yet? What I'm concerened about is.... Football season is around the corner; Packers first pre-season game is August 15th and channel 14 is still off. We went thru this last season. I understand that channel 24 is the same but I've got my doubt's with all the other mix-ups. Will this be another "gimmie" to make us pay $200 a year to watch sports?

I also looked on line and called Dish Network. I was told I am not able to get local channels. Call back after 7pm tonight. Does anyone know if you are able to put up an antenna and get tv6, will you still be able to get it on dish? Or do you have to be out of range?

Honestly the government is getting ALL our money!

tried checking for a friend in IR thru the DISH internet web site, YOU posted... says local channels are NOT AVAILABLE!
They used to have channel 6, b4 this change to digital from DISH!!!
After decades of watching your news nightly, they are lost without it!

How nice that you have to PAY $60 a year to watch WLUC
There's gotta be a law someplace about having to pay to watch your Local TV Station.
But I've got Direct TV and going by the way they do business I'm sure they're gonna charge more.
Whoopee TV6
Where's Ed Kearney?

As soon as this is confirmed, it's goodbye Charter. You have been ripping off people for too long, charging what you want because there is no competition in our area. Now there is... so goodbye to you and your over-priced services.

I THINK TV6 BETTER LOOK INTO THIS LOCAL CHANNEL SETUP THROUGH DISH NETWORK. I HAVE BEEN ONLINE WITH THEM FOR OVER AN HOUR AND ALL I GET IS WE CANNOT RECIEVE LOCAL CHANNELS HERE?????? PLEASE SET THEM STRAIGHT SO WE CAN AGAIN RECIEVE TV6

After all the hype about a better picture and improved reception, we in the hinterlands are now out of a TV source. The only way that we can get TV6 is now on Dish, I sorry but whats so great about paying for something we used to get for Free. It makes me wonder who was behind all this changing? I believe that TV6 will get paid for their broadcast, right? Who is the real winners? I don't think it was the viewer.
Sincerely Al Stockton

The information given here is incorrect. "local channels" will not be available until at least August per the toll free number given above.
If you are in a location where the signal is strong ,not in Big Bay, you might recieve TV 6 on a "external Antenna" and a digital coverter but NOT a dish network "dish" not for awhileas explained by the folks at the toll free number in this news story

I called DISH network to get a clarification whether this service will be available and they confirmed it is. They said we would get ABC,CBS, NBC, and FOX for $5 per month. They can't sign you up until after 7pm eastern time tomorrow.

Ya I called too they had no idea what I was talking about!!!!!

We too called DishNet and checked their website, and they advised they don't have any idea what TV6 is talking about. Really need to make sure the provider has information and/or is on the same page before you print/run a story TV6!

It would be cool if TV6 would be offered to those of us on the Eastern end of the U.P. We have no "local" news. We can often watch a "local" nightly newscast out of TC or Cadillac and not hear anything reported from the Upper Peninsula. I'll dump Charter in a heartbeat if we can get TV6.

i called dish network, they had know idea what i was talking about.... they told me local channels were not available.

SWEET!!