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Montana, in this particular case, is connected to every television satellite out there that is aimed at the US, and some that aren't. I've got a 15 foot dish, state of the art sat. equipment, and subscriptions to everything but the pay-per-view services on one of the telstars. Why? The wife is a football fanatic ( I certainly am not :^) and we like the news stuff, Christian Science news, CNN and even headline news. Also watch the weather channel, all the PBS stations… mostly, I don't watch. Anne does, and my nephew does, and so does Barry. Me, I prefer pulling satellite photos off of the GOES birds, but hey, some people like TV. :^) There are also a lot of radio feeds on those sats… I saw plenty of Amiga commercials last year. None this year. It's not like there's no opportunity. It's more like there were very few ads. Most of the people here use satellite systems to get their fix of the idiot box. So we get better TV than many people in "the big city" do; certainly better than the over-the-air faire that I saw in NYC when we were there for the AmiExpo. Cable systems are better, but they only have a paltry few channels (50? 100?) compared to many hundreds you can get off satellite (in fact, what you see on cable almost always came off satellite in the first place). Ben