Folks, Effective Thursday, January 23, KNWS, an Independent station in Houston will be launched. The information regarding the station is: Station: KNWS Network Affiliation: IND Local Channel: 51 DISH Network Channel: 8377 Satellite: 119 Spot Please pass this information along to the appropriate personnel and don't hesitate to contact me should you have any questions. Thanks, Marsha -----Original Message----- From: [removed] Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 9:33 PM To: 'John' Subject: RE: Rockets Dear I apologize it took me so long to get back to you. As of yet, I haven't heard anything regarding channel 51. I am hoping that the engineer is on the money with this. I will keep my ears open and when I find out, I promise to let you know immediately. Thank you for your understanding. Right now channel 8577 belongs to; MINNEAPOLIS IND-KSTC, Ch.45 KSTC 8577 LOCALS 110 DISH 500 58 I wish I could have been of more help. Warmly, Floor Supervisor - West Texas -----Original Message----- From: Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:14 PM To: [removed] Subject: Rockets A engineer at Houston channel 51 said he is finishing the paperwork and 51 will be on Dish network in one to two weeks. The channel # will be 8577 when you can confirm this let me know so I can get a set up. Thanks, Naismith
What about DIRECTV!!!!!!!!!!!! The only time I see Rox games are when they are on WB39 or on ESPN. Somebody please help me, I need info ASAP1
Ok I just wanted to bump this post. Channel 51 is now on #8377. Finally Dish Network subscribers can watch Rocket games. Thanks for the heads up Naismith ! Raven
From the Chron: After long battle, Ch. 51 finally joins satellite era By DAVID BARRON Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle At 6 a.m. Thursday, KNWS (Channel 51) entered the satellite era. After a long battle that stemmed from its failure to meet the satellite carriage deadline in 2001, Channel 51 is now available on Dish Network's Channel 8377. The message was waiting for station owner Doug Johnson when he returned Thursday from an industry conference. "We hope that people who have Dish Network will be watching us there," Johnson said. "I also have a message from DirecTV (which, so far, does not carry Channel 51), and we hope we can get something done there." The process of getting on Dish Network was much more difficult than it had to be, given the fact every other station in town met the deadline to be carried on both dish systems in late 2001. But no matter. The point is that after a long, frustrating fall, Rockets fans who are on Dish Network can now watch the team using their dish, not their rabbit ears or cable connections. No word on when DirecTV will follow suit, but Johnson is optimistic. Unfortunately, the hookup wasn't effective for last Friday's Lakers-Rockets game. However, the game still drew a 10.6 rating and 16 share, the best rating for any program on 51 since a 10.0/22 for Randy Johnson's debut game with the Astros in 1998. Combined with a 7.6/11 local rating on ESPN, the first meeting between Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal drew an 18.2 rating and 27 share and was seen in more than 330,000 households locally. That's as good or better than five Texans games did this season, which is astonishing. The game was a big deal on the Left Coast, too. In Los Angeles, it had a 10.4/17 rating on KCAL and a 3.6/9 rating on ESPN, which equates to more than 740,000 households. Nationwide, the ESPN broadcast drew 3.326 million households, the second-highest audience ever for an NBA game on cable. TNT had 4.74 million households in 1996 for Michael Jordan's second game after returning from his first retirement. FSN keeps pussyfooting -- Wonderful thing, coincidences. Less than a week after the aforementioned Lakers-Rockets game, Fox Sports Net executives Bob Thompson and Randy Freer were in Houston on Wednesday to meet with Rockets vice president Tad Brown. Brown downplayed the timing of the meeting, saying that Thompson and Freer scheduled the visit before the hype began building for the Yao-Shaq confrontation. Brown said the group had "a lot of substantive discussion," but the bottom line is that they were unable to come to an agreement that would move any Rockets games to FSN for the remainder of the regular season. We have harped frequently on this point, but last Friday was again an example of how FSN is just getting massacred in the ratings without the Rockets. Not only did ESPN get a 7.6 rating for the game, it had a 4.9 rating for SportsCenter. FSN, meanwhile, had hash marks -- Nielsen slang for no measurable rating -- for the show known as Period and for its Southwest Sports Report. In fact, to match the 10.6 rating Channel 51 got for the Bill Worrell/Calvin Murphy version of the show, you would have to add every airing and re-airing of Period from Dec. 10 through Jan. 20 to come up with a combined rating of 10.6. That's laughable, but it isn't funny.
WOW! What great news this is! I can finally watch a lot of rockets games instead of only seeing them on fox, espn.
Great! Now I don't have to fumble around with programming my tv for vhf/antenna channels just before the Rockets games on 51, and then reprogramming it again afterwards. ~ kountzer ~
What plan do you have to be under to get it? I think I have the top 150 plan will I get ch.51? I live in LA county and am sick of hearing/seeing/watching the lakers and have been wanting to see more than the 10 or so nationally televised games or laker/rocket games on local tv. I've been yearning for this for the past 11 years finally I just hope I can get it. I am planning to get league pass next year now that its on dishnetwork now as well. woohoo. thanks for the info
Is ch.51 on Dishnetwork for local Houston only or for anybody who got Dishnetwork (include out of State) ? Anybody?
I don't see why the hell you all can't get an antenna and plug it into the dish receiver. That's what I've done all along.
If you have a local channel package you should get it. Also, I know some of you were concerned that you would have to get a 2nd dish. You DO NOT have to. It comes through on the 119 signal on the primary dish. Yay!!
