What I read was that the cut off date will be extended to April 17 so I don't think anything will be cut off on Dec. 1. There is a link somewhere on this thread that tells about it. I will try to find it for you. On the other point of local ads, we have newspapers, internet and most of...

Why do you want to cause problems?? Are you a Dishnetwork customer? Where you losing channels? I have had DN for ten years and if I want to pay to receive these channels that is all that should matter. Don't we live in a free country????:)