DISH Network's summer HD locals rollout gets revealed

With April and May almost behind us, there's only one place left to turn our attention to: summer. During a recent DISH Network Retailer Chat, a snapshot was captured showing a list of locales in which the satcaster will hopefully flip on HD locals in the next few months. According to Satellite Guys' Scott Greczkowski, DISH will be turning the new list of cities on "as soon as it has them setup and running," and a number of those listed would have already been live if not for "technical delays." Ready to see if your town made the summertime cut? Head on past the break for the full list.

DISH Network's proposed summer rollout of HD locals:

• Abilene, TX
• Albany, NY
• Beaumont, TX
• Buffalo, NY
• Chattanooga, TN
• Columbia-Jefferson City, MO
• Des Moines, IA
• Fargo, ND
• Grand Rapids, MI
• Greenville, NC
• Joplin, MO
• Lansing, MI
• Lincoln, NE
• Madison, WI
• Memphis, TN
• Myrtle Beach, SC
• Omaha, NE
• Quincy, IL
• Sherman-Ada, TX / OK
• South Bend, IN
• Syracuse, NY
• Topeka, KS
• Waco, TX
• Wichita Falls, TX
• Wilkes Barre, PA

[(Unverified) Posted May 23rd 2008 10:45PM]

WTF....common' Dish. It's not like Indianapolis is not a small market. Even South Bend has HD Locals now.

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2008 1:30AM]

Here Here!!

I'm in El Paso, TX. About 900,000+ in the DMA. Not tiny.

They are putting Wichita Falls, TX, population 100,000, on the list WTF!!

Not cool. Not cool at all.

[(Unverified) Posted May 23rd 2008 10:53PM]

Tell me about it. DirecTV has had locals in my area for the past 6 months....Have considered switching, but I just don't feel like messing with it..

[(Unverified) Posted May 23rd 2008 11:01PM]

DirectTV has locals here in Indy, but I liked Dish's DVR better. Oh well. I have OTA HD channels for now, but sometimes they cut in and out.

[(Unverified) Posted May 23rd 2008 11:30PM]

They told us a couple year ago that they would be adding Tulsa in HD.

Then they removed it from the list.

Then they added a TINY area (ADA) in Oklahoma.

They suck.

[twister Posted May 24th 2008 12:28AM]

Darn I was hoping for Duluth, MN.which was highlighted on the Charlie Chat on the map for this year..I hope they do it by the fall season. Summer doesn't matter that much to me as I am hardly ever home. Still, it's nice to see HD locals finally coming. My only downer will be that they are not including local PBS on most of these.

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2008 1:08AM]

Wow, no love for the west coast! No a single city west of the rockies on this list! I want to be the first to proclaim Dish has an East Coast Bias!

[MastrCake Posted May 24th 2008 1:36AM]

And I'll be the SECOND!!!

[(Unverified) Posted May 24th 2008 1:48AM]

geez...Tallahassee, FL will never get them...

[(Unverified) Posted May 25th 2008 8:15AM]

I'm waiting for Tally also.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 1st 2008 9:26PM]

Direct TV has my local channels in HD for months. If Dish doesn't put my local HD channels up before my contract expires, I am gonna give them the big ol' boot.

[(Unverified) Posted May 25th 2008 10:12AM]

No locals for my market but oh well my Directv does!!

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2008 12:31AM]

Serious ditto on the west-coast bias. In the roll-out this year it seems to all have started there, so I hope the west is coming soon. I am in Tucson, AZ, and we are the 32nd largest city in the country, for sure bigger than some of the cities on the list. Come on Dish!

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2008 9:11AM]

Hopefully this means that DirecTV will get HD Locals in Lansing, MI as well. Comcast seems to have successfully blocked their digital channels from QAM tuners.

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2008 2:39PM]

Im in Tulsa also come on now. Please Hurry

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2008 4:21PM]

DISH gets Des Moines!?

Come on DTV, please match this!!