DISH is awful. None of the local channels are reliable but all long distance ones are. This is after three visits by repair people. I also had seven channels disappear and the call center agents told me I was wrong on two occasions, that I'd never had the channels. Then I found in a business journal that they had dropped them over a financial dispute. Thanks for calling me a liar DISH! Great having a ton of channels. Bad when they disappear, especially when it's sports or a series and you're in the middle of enjoying one.