Business & Tech
Falls Church Man Dishes to Channel 7, Gets Relief from DirecTV
Man gets company to back down and come and get their satellite dishes off his roof after he pleads his case in public.
A Falls Church man went up against a satellite dish company and won after taking his case to local media, WJLA Channel 7.
David Ross of Falls Church wanted DirecTV to remove two satellite dishes they had installed on the roof of his home while he was renting it out to a tenant. The company, according to the story, will install equipment without landlords' permission.
When Ross moved back into the home, he contacted the company to come and get their equipment off his roof. They refused.
After he took his case to Channel 7, the company backed down, and came and got the two satellite dishes off the roof.
Satellite dishes are beginning to become a problem. Here's an excerpt about them as something of a public nuisance, in a blog in the New York Times last year:
The responsibility for disposing of the dish is that of the owner, industry officials said, although doing so is not a straightforward process. First, you need to remove it, which requires a socket wrench, a certain amount of muscle and possibly getting on top of a ladder on a roof or paying someone else to do it.
David Ross of Falls Church wanted DirecTV to remove two satellite dishes they had installed on the roof of his home while he was renting it out to a tenant. The company, according to the story, will install equipment without landlords' permission.
When Ross moved back into the home, he contacted the company to come and get their equipment off his roof. They refused.
After he took his case to Channel 7, the company backed down, and came and got the two satellite dishes off the roof.
Satellite dishes are beginning to become a problem. Here's an excerpt about them as something of a public nuisance, in a blog in the New York Times last year:
The responsibility for disposing of the dish is that of the owner, industry officials said, although doing so is not a straightforward process. First, you need to remove it, which requires a socket wrench, a certain amount of muscle and possibly getting on top of a ladder on a roof or paying someone else to do it.
Then there’s the issue of disposing of the satellite dish properly. Many say the dishes end up in landfills, polluting the environment.
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