Dish TV Guide

Dish Network, also known as Dish TV, is one of the largest pay-TV service provider in the United States, with a customer base of 18 million households and commercial establishments. It is an apt choice if you are tired of cable TV and all the problems associated with it. In this write-up, we will provide you with two Dish TV guides - the first one will make the daunting task of satellite dish installation easy, while the second one will help you guide your way through hundreds of channels that the Dish Network has to offer.

Dish TV Installation Guide

When you subscribe for Dish Network satellite TV service, you can avail the services of their technical experts for the installation of satellite dish. That, however, doesn't mean that the installation process is some Herculean task which you can never pull off. Given below is the basic information about dish antenna installation process which will make this seemingly daunting task easier for you to execute.

The manufacturer's guide for satellite TV installation will give you the details about the basics of installation process, and therefore you need to make sure that you go through it before you start with the installation process. While choosing the spot to fix dish antenna you will have to make sure that there are no obstructions which could block the signal transmission from the satellite. A look at various dish antennas in your neighborhood will help you get the direction towards which the antenna should be facing. As the next step of satellite antenna installation process, you will have to mount the mast. If you intend to mount the mast on solid wood, lag-screws would be more than enough, but if you are mounting it on concrete wall, you will have to resort to some better option such as double expansion anchors and machine screws.

That brings us to the connection part, wherein you will require another person to help you with the installation process. You will have to hold the dish-LNB arm assembly on the mast, and connect the co-axial cable to it. You should guide the cable through the mast and connect it to the LNB. While doing this make sure that you leave 2 ft extra cable, which you will have to eventually connect to the LNB using some silicon grease. The task of satellite antenna installation is now complete, and next step is to connect the cable to the Dish Network receiver. You will notice a 'Satellite In' jack on the backside of the receiver, this is where you have to connect the cable and you setup will be ready. You just have to sit back and get entertained after tuning the channels.

Dish TV Channel Guide

So, that brings us to Dish TV guide for channel tuning. Dish Network offers numerous channels under its four programming packages. The 4 Dish Network programming packages include America's Top 120 (120 channels at $24.99), America's Top 200 (over 220 channels at $39.99), America's Top 250 (over 260 channels at $49.99) and America's Everything Pack (over 295 channels at $84.99). While the actual list of channels offered by Dish Network is quite long, here is a list of some Dish channels you can't afford to miss out on.

• ABC Family
• AMC
• AMERICA LIVE
• ANIMAL PLANET
• ActionMAX HD
• BBC AMERICA HD
• BET HD
• BIG TEN NETWORK
• BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL
• BLOOMBERG TELEVISION
• BOOMERANG
• BRAVO HD
• BYUTV
• CARTOON NETWORK EAST HD
• CARTOON NETWORK WEST
• CINEMAX EAST
• CINEMAX WEST
• CINEMAX HD
• CLASSIC ARTS SHOWCASE
• CMT HD
• CNBC HD
• CNN HD
• COLORS TV
• COMEDY CENTRAL HD
• Cox Sports TV New Orleans
• CURRENT TV
• THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL HD
• DishHome Interactive TV
• DISCOVERY HEALTH
• DISCOVERY KIDS
• DISNEY CHANNEL (WEST)
• DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL
• E! Entertainment Channel HD
• ESPN
• ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION
• FLIX
• FOOD NETWORK HD
• FOX BUSINESS NEWS HD
• FOX MOVIE CHANNEL
• FOX NEWS CHANNEL HD
• FOX SOCCER CHANNEL HD
• FREE SPEECH TV
• FX HD
• G4 HD
• GALAVISION
• GOLF CHANNEL
• GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY
• HALLMARK CHANNEL HD
• HALLMARK MOVIE CHANNEL HD
• HBO2 East HD
• HBO Comedy HD
• HBO Family HD
• HBO Latino HD
• HBO Signature HD
• HBO West HD
• HBO ZONE HD
• HBO EAST
• HBO HDTV
• HBO WEST
• HBO2 EAST
• HBO2 WEST
• HBO COMEDY
• HBO FAMILY
• HBO LATINO
• HBO SIGNATURE
• HEADLINE NEWS
• HGTV HD
• HISTORY HD
• HISTORY INTERNATIONAL
• HITN
• HLN
• HORSERACING TV
• HSN
• KIDS & TEENS TV
• LIFETIME
• LIFETIME MOVIE NETWORK HD
• Mid-Atlantic Sports Network
• Mercury Channel
• MILITARY CHANNEL
• MoreMAX
• THE MOVIE CHANNEL EAST
• The MOVIE CHANNEL WEST
• TMC XTRA
• TMC XTRA WEST
• The MOVIE CHANNEL HD
• MSNBC HD
• MUN2
• MTV HD
• MTV2
• NASA
• NATIONAL GEO. WILD HD
• NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HD
• NBA TV HD
• NESN
• NFL NETWORK HD
• NHL NETWORK HD
• NICK JR
• NICKTOONS NETWORK
• Outdoor Channel
• OXYGEN
• PAEC
• PENTAGON CHANNEL
• PLANET GREEN HD
• QVC
• REELZCHANNEL
• RESEARCH CHANNEL
• RFD-TV
• SATELLITE RESPONSE INT
• SATELLITE RESPONSE NETWORK
• SCIENCE CHANNEL HD
• SHOWCASE HD
• SHOWTIME EAST HDTV
• SHOWTIME EAST
• SHOWTIME WEST
• SHOWTIME BEYOND
• SHOWTIME EXTREME
• SHOWTIME SHOWCASE
• SHOWTIME 2 HD
• SHOWTIME 2
• SHOWTIME
• SiTV
• SLEUTH
• SOAPNET
• SPEED HD
• SPIKE TV HD
• Sports Alternate
• Sportsman Channel HD
• SportsNet New York
• SportsSouth HD
• SportsTime Ohio
• STARZ EAST
• STARZ WEST HD
• STARZ CINEMA EAST
• STARZ COMEDY HD
• STARZ HDTV
• STARZ EDGE
• STARZ in Black
• STARZ KIDS & FAMILY EAST HD
• STYLE HD
• SUN SPORTS
• TBN
• TBS HD
• TEENNICK
• TELEFUTURA EAST
• TELEFUTURA WEST HD
• TENNIS CHANNEL HD
• The Church Channel
• TLC HD
• TNT HD
• TRAVEL CHANNEL HD
• truTV HD
• TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES HD
• TV GAMES NETWORK
• TV Guide Network
• TV LAND
• UNIVISION WEST
• UNIVISION EAST HD
• USA HD
• V-ME
• VERIA
• VERSUS HD
• VH1 HD
• VH1 CLASSIC
• WE: WOMEN'S ENTERTAINMENT
• WEATHER CHANNEL

Those were the two Dish TV guides intended to help you with two seemingly daunting tasks associated with the Dish Network - installation and channel tuning. With so many channels to choose from, a Dish Network TV guide is bound to come as a blessing in disguise. Over the last few years Dish has come up with several innovative offers to keep up with rivals DirecTV and Comcast. If you are looking forward to subscribe to Dish Network satellite TV, you need to keep a watch on the numerous discounts dolled out by Dish Network Corporation every once in a while.