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As you guys are probably aware, Directv is in the middle of negotiations with our local Fox station. And of course its off the air and its football and the Cowboys are broadcast on the Fox station that is not on the air. I have an over the air antenna, but can only seem to pick up our local CBS station and some weather station.

What type of antenna are you guys going to use since it looks like no Fox?
 

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Had this issue in Richmond, VA last night with NBC. Ended up streaming the game.

Is that local dispute going to affect Sunday Ticket? If so, DirecTV needs to override that.
 

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Had this issue in Richmond, VA last night with NBC. Ended up streaming the game.

Is that local dispute going to affect Sunday Ticket? If so, DirecTV needs to override that.

I wish they would override it but I figure they're just going to say since you're local game is blacked out so is Sunday ticket.
 

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You guys are welcome to come to my place in New York, I'll order a pizza!
 

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I wish they would override it but I figure they're just going to say since you're local game is blacked out so is Sunday ticket.

Is your local game blacked out or is it on Fox and you don't get it? If it is on local Fox go to a sports bar or Buffalo Wild Wings and watch the game.
 

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Had the same problem here in Hawaii with NBC affiliates, no Thursday night game SUCKED ! Still not resolved.
 

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Sent you a PM, Lowtech...

Anyone that has a question about your OTA reception, send me a message and I'll be glad to help.
 

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As you guys are probably aware, Directv is in the middle of negotiations with our local Fox station. And of course its off the air and its football and the Cowboys are broadcast on the Fox station that is not on the air. I have an over the air antenna, but can only seem to pick up our local CBS station and some weather station.

What type of antenna are you guys going to use since it looks like no Fox?


I got this last year when CBS and Time Warner were dorking around at the beginning of the season. I hooked it to my Tivo and can record the games.

I now have DirecTV, but I still use the Antenna with the TIVO for record games because I like the Tivo DVR better for reviewing games AND I can just keep all of the game recorded because I don't use it for other TV shows or movies.

Terk FDTV2A Omni-Directional Amplified Flat Digital HDTV
http://www.amazon.com/Terk-FDTV2A-Omni-Directional-Amplified-Antenna-Black/dp/B001VYQG16

They had it at best buy.
 

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I could never watch a regular season game online unless I absolutely had to. Looks like I'm hitting up the local sports bar this Sunday.
 

kiheikiwi

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Me too. Had to watch stream on my iPad. Luckily we have FOX. :)

First thing I checked when I realized those channels are blocked. Dumb thing was, I put it on the HD Sportsmix channel - that shows like 8 sporting events going on. It was showing the game, but when I clicked on it, it was blocked. So I watched that until it got too aggravating with 8 things going on. Just as well our game is on Fox this weekend !
 

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I had a RCA antenna like the Terk FDTV2A Omni-Directional Amplified Flat Digital HDTV
I am out side of St Louis 20 miles could only pick up one station CBS
 

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I could never watch a regular season game online unless I absolutely had to. Looks like I'm hitting up the local sports bar this Sunday.

Don't know exactly what is involved. But my sweetie runs a wire from a laptop to a 54" tv and it's just like watching NFL games that are on regular tv. If you want I will ask him. Or even have him email you. But be warned. He is a gnat fan.
 

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As you guys are probably aware, Directv is in the middle of negotiations with our local Fox station. And of course its off the air and its football and the Cowboys are broadcast on the Fox station that is not on the air. I have an over the air antenna, but can only seem to pick up our local CBS station and some weather station.

What type of antenna are you guys going to use since it looks like no Fox?

Thought I had the same problem but Fox is ok here. I did some research and found a site called tvfool.com that had a lot of reception and antenna information.
Tells you the range of the broadcast and what type of antenna you'd need to pick it up.
Hope this helps.
 

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In my area most sports bars use Directtv. So they have the same problem I imagine.
 

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Thought I had the same problem but Fox is ok here. I did some research and found a site called tvfool.com that had a lot of reception and antenna information.
Yep, to anyone wondering, use tvfool.com or antennaweb.org to find your channels and what frequency they're on. Most UHF antennas don't work for VHF and vice versa... Unless your signal is strong enough, in which case a paper clip will work.

And no offense to xwalker or anyone else, but Terk is pretty much a terrible brand... Their products are ok in some cases but are horribly overpriced. For something local, look at the Winegard Freevision from Home Depot http://www.homedepot.com/p/Winegard-Freevision-Outdoor-HDTV-Antenna-FVHD30H/203972856 or one of the Radioshack Antennacraft models http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3766859. If you live in a big city near a Fry's, they carry Channel Master products that are good. These are "real" engineered antennas... In most cases you don't want anything with a built-in amplifier, as those usually add as much noise as anything.

If you want to order something, a company called Solidsignal.com is very good.

And if you're handy and enjoy that kind of thing, you can make an excellent quality antenna pretty easily with hardware store parts for just a few dollars. Google Gray-Hoverman antenna. These aren't the humongous ugly old TV antennas you used to see (nor are the ones posted above), but smaller ones you can use inside if you want to.

Main point is that if you've tried something from a big box store and it hasn't worked, don't give up because those antennas usually aren't any good and the ones posted above (or even better ones) have much stronger gain and don't cost much, or any, more.

Just some tips from an early HDTV adopter who went through all this years ago when OTA was the only option for HD.

All that said... I'd bet this is all resolved before tomorrow. DTV doesn't want all the bad pub from people who don't know about OTA missing their NFL games.
 

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As you guys are probably aware, Directv is in the middle of negotiations with our local Fox station. And of course its off the air and its football and the Cowboys are broadcast on the Fox station that is not on the air. I have an over the air antenna, but can only seem to pick up our local CBS station and some weather station.

What type of antenna are you guys going to use since it looks like no Fox?

I'm also in Palm Beach, in Boynton Beach. I called DirecTV last night. They said that if this isn't resolved by game time, I will be able to stream the game from Fox.com. I haven't verified yet to be sure that is possible, but that is what they told me. I also just downloaded the Sunday Ticket app for my iPad. Hopefully one of these solutions will work!

If I can make it work and you can't, I'd be happy to have you come over!
 

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As you guys are probably aware, Directv is in the middle of negotiations with our local Fox station. And of course its off the air and its football and the Cowboys are broadcast on the Fox station that is not on the air. I have an over the air antenna, but can only seem to pick up our local CBS station and some weather station.

What type of antenna are you guys going to use since it looks like no Fox?

ALSO: I just found this! Problem solved: http://www.phstream.com/2012/04/watch-fox-network-east-live-stream.html
 
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