Out of area commercials

[Helen]

I live in Georgia and receive local channels without any problems. Since I've had the Hopper & Joeys installed (last week)  I've had a problem with commercials. When the national channels periodically go to local commercials,  I get commercials for upcoming news on Indiana news stations and ads for Indiana grocery stores, Indiana car dealers, Indiana attorneys, etc - nothing in Georgia.  These are the non-local channels.

In all the years I've had Dish, it NEVER happened until I upgraded to Hopper system. Customer Service cannot help me other than saying call the national channels.

I am wondering if I got refurbished equipment previously used and somehow programmed to the Indiana area. 

I am "technically challanged" and can't get through to Support because I don't have enough years left to wait on hold for eternity.

Any ideas?  Thanks

[Chadt4141]

Commercials are not decided by providers, so in reality, yes you need to contact the channel owner. It’s possible it is a refurb, but after a factory reset, it will lose any identifiers.

[Helen]

OMG That's a lot of channels to call. I think I'll just wait until the next Indiana car dealership ad comes on then call them to see who their ad contact is (and maybe buy a Jeep: )

[Chadt4141]

Lol. There ya go.

[ZZV43701]

I think you maybe wrong on this one Chad.  Dish does insert ads, and I have only seen one local ne, but have seen others.

Been mentioned a few times on "that other forum" - some screw-up with Dish. 

[Chadt4141]

There are Dish inserted ads, but for those, if you skip back, the ad will be gone.

[Helen]

Today at about 4:15, Fox started a national ad and it immediately switched to a politcal ad for "elect Diego Morales, INDIANA"  Waiting for Fox to reply but when they do, I'm expecting them to say it's not them doing it.

[Chadt4141]

Are you DVRing any of these Helen?

[Helen]

No, live TV

[Chadt4141]

Next time you see one, will you hit the skip back button? See if the commercial is still there. If it is, it’s a commercial for the channel. If not, it is a Dish commercial