Bob Gilreath recently wrote: >Now to find a dish for sat night's telecast! Now, a general question to HOCKEY-L re: the availability of the major premium cable sports networks via satellite. Shortly before Christmas I was told by a friend with a satellite dish that NESN, Prime, PASS, etc. were now scrambling their signals, and that dish owners could now receive these channels only by payment of an "all-inclusive, multi-sport channel fee" (of approximately $110/year) to an outfit in Colorado who was marketing the regional sports channels to dish owners as a package deal (presumably with the approval and/or financial support of the affected channels). I have satellite dish access only sporadically, so I haven't been able to personally confirm/refute this. Does anyone know for sure ?? If this is the case, I'll never see a game via satellite here in Maryland, since none of my dish-owning friends care enough about cable sports to invest that kind of $$. Cheers from the Chesapeake - Jim