I just found a terrific channel on Dish Network

[karlrschneider]

We finally decided to get sat. TV a couple days ago and I was poking around and found FSTV (Free Speech TV), chan 9415. It is fucking WONDERFUL. Maybe everyone else knows about it but was new to me...

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Cool, I'll check it out!!!

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Yep great channel!! 9410(LINK) also carries Democracy Now and some

other good stuff

[karlrschneider]

6. Good tip, THANKS!

:D

[NMDemDist2]

3. be sure to check out UCTV too, they have great lectures sometimes

i spend more time way down there than up in the "regular" channels

also PBSU replays "Now" every Sunday night if you miss it Fridays

[karlrschneider]

7. Thanks. I'll check it out!

:toast:

[oldhat]

4. This channel is shown on Comcast cable in Bay Area.

Check your listings.

[peacetalksforall]

5. Is Comcast a blue company?

[otohara]

16. Not At All

Comcast dumps C-Span where they can get away with it.

[musette_sf]

15. What's the code

in the channel guide?

[rurallib]

8. Stumbled across it about a year ago

Visiting my daughter in St. Louis. Came home and immediately ordered an upgrade. (we call it the tree hugger channel)
DemocracyNow is a must see daily 7AM, repeats at 11A, 6P & 11P central time). DN is also on LINK (CH 9410).(10A & 5P)
UCtv (University of California tv) has some great stuff too. What I have been totally disappointed in is the national public TV feed. Seems like it is only Charlie Rose.
BYUtv on the other hand can give you - uh - the other side of academia. Any Nobel laureates study at BYU?

[karlrschneider]

9. Good info, thanks. I lived in St. Louis for a few years as a child in the

mid 1940s, my sis lives near there (Ballwin) now.
:D

[shanti]

10. yes, it's been discussed

here by some on du. don't you love it? that and worldlink have saved my sanity at times.

[karlrschneider]

13. I figured it had been mentioned, while I was out, probably.

:evilgrin:
j/k
thanks.
:D

[not systems]

11. FSTV and Link are the best...

I love em...

[Endangered Specie]

12. Yeah, I ran across it one day, and it took me by surpise...

a good channel, definetely a good reason to take Dish over cable :)

[Flammable Materials]

14. Yeah, FSTV is great. Obviously DirecTV doesn't carry it.

Just another reason to choose Dish over DirecTV.

Don't forget "Mosaic" (Middle-Eastern news) and "Deutsche Welle News" on LinkTV and "BBC News" on BBC America.

[B Calm]

19. Democracy Now on Direct Channel Link 375

I hoe this helps you..

[0007]

22. Oh man, that is one of my favorite channels.

[spinbaby]

17. Another reason to switch to Dish

I've been considering it because they offer German and Japanese programing that DirecTV doesn't. But it's such a pain to switch over--I'm told we need to run new wire.

[NMDemDist2]

18. nah, that's bull all dishes work off coaxial cable

you may need to run wire from the roof to you current cable, but that's it

[Danmel]

20. I'd switch if they offered YES which arries Yankee games

They don't- Direct Tv does and I get to see CBC news and LINK. I just can't go to DISH- I need to watch my Yankee games.

[B Calm]

21. I use to have Dish, now I have Direct with tivo. If you want Free Speech

go to Direct Channel 375, right now Democracy Now is on.

[guajira]

23. DirecTV Owned by Rupert Murdoch - I'll take Dish!

My local Comcast is terrible and I have been thinking about getting satellite. It sounds like a must-do!

snippet:

In the year since News Corp. won control of it, DirecTV has taken off like a rocket. Now it plans to import a bundle of interactive features from its British cousin, BSkyB. The trick will be to stay ahead of cable.
By Adam Lashinsky

If you didn't know better, chances are you wouldn't peg Britain—for years the land of the BBC and, let's face it, not much else—as one of the world's most exciting places to watch television. It wasn't. At least not until Rupert Murdoch came along. Thanks to Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting, or BSkyB, a couch potato in London with a satellite dish on his roof can place an onscreen bet on a soccer game from an account maintained by Sky Television. Once the game begins, he can alternate camera angles to stay focused on his team. He even can switch off the sound on Sky's neutral sportscasters and listen instead to the FanZone, where a fellow partisan cheers and boos alongside him.

Those aren't puffed-up promotional gimmicks from a village-sized test market. They are features available to 7.4 million BSkyB customers today. When Murdoch was spending billions launching BSkyB, everyone thought interactivity was, well, so much pie in the sky. Now it's a big deal in Britain and a major reason Sky owns nearly 70% of the pay-TV market there.
more...
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,832256,00.html