I live in NW suburbs of Chicago approx. 70 mi. from the transmitter on top of the Handcock building. Who do I contact to receive a waiver for Channel 2 CBS (wbbm)Chicago to receive the NY or LA CBS HD feed. There own web site says the are having multi-path problems downtown & to the NW suburbs so an OTA is out of the question. Is there a FCC standard form for this waiver? Dishnetwork said they applied and it was rejected? If they are having all the problems I would think they would give them out w/o a problem.
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Please read the criteria for a waiver from DishNetwork at this site: http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/programming/locals/cbshd/index.shtml
CBS Chicago is Owned and Operated by CBS, so you meet that criteria. Next is the DMA piece. Are you in the Chicago DMA? 70 miles is a push. Could you be in the Milwaukee DMA? Are you able to get Milwuakee with an antenna? How about Madison? All of these things can offer an opportunity to _not_ grant a waiver. I'm guessing that you have the local channel package and it is from Chicago. That's the last criteria.
I think I'd ask Dish what grounds you were denied on. Push some more, you just might get it yet.
As a final resort, contact CBS Chicago directly and plead your case and see if they will issue a letter granting you a waiver.
Bobby C
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September 10 2002, 12:36 PM
>contact CBS Chicago directly
That's what I did when Dish originally denied my waiver request. I contacted my local CBS affiliate (Philadelphia), and they sent me a letter granting the waiver. I forwarded that to Dish, and now I get the CBS HD feed from New York from Dish Network.
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Did receive waiver
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January 9 2003, 3:23 PM
I finally got my waiver from the Rockford affiate
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