Satellite TV

[akimbalogo]

State of FLorida:

Reference the Satellite Dish TV. My apartment faces the pool, and the landlord has decided that my dish would be "an eyesore". Because my entire aparment is poolside, the landlord has decided that I cannot have a dish, and that I must get cable (at a far more expensive rate) or nothing.
There are already several dishes installed, many of them poolside, and all installed with the blessing of the current landlord. My landlord has now threatened me with my lease should I attempt to install a dish.
The installer says that there are no alterntaive locations that she will allow, including where dishes already exist.

I thought the FCC ruling was that if there are no alternative locations, then the landlord MUST allow me clear reception, no matter where it is located.
Please advise.

 

[youngm]

The FCC ruling doesn't say at all what you said you thought it did. It doesn't say that your landlord MUST anything.

What it does say is that it prohibits restrictions that impair the installation, maintenance or use of antennas used to receive video programming. That does not mean ALL restrictions fall into this category.

To make a complicated story short, I suggest the following:

Send a letter to your landlord saying that you plan to install a satellite television antenna and you would suggest putting it in some particular place. Ask him if what restrictions, if any, he would place on you regarding this installation, and point out that the house rules do not contain any such restrictions (assuming that this is true).

See what he says.