Article: DISH NETWORK CUSTOMERS SCRATCHING HEADS LOCAL CHANNELS NOT EASY TO GET

The initial elation that Dish Network is finally going to offer access to local TV channels dissolved into frustration as customers learned that they first must have their dishes replaced -- and may have to wait until February or March to do so.

"They gave me a date of March 1" to install the new SuperDish, customer John Mathias of Evansville said Thursday.

"I'm 78. I may be dead by the time it gets here," Mathias said. "It really pulls my cork."

Many Dish Network customers in the Evansville-Henderson area were excited when they heard the satellite TV service would make local channels available beginning Thursday. "When I read that in the

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