My Apt. complex says to receive cable channels I have to sign up for DISH Network, but DISH Network is blocking my local NBC affiliate, can they legally do this?
Posted on September 11, 2012.
My Apt. complex says to receive cable channels I have to sign up for DISH Network, but DISH Network is blocking my local NBC affiliate, can they legally do this?
yes.
He can legally forbid you to attach something to his building, drill holes in the wall etc. I have Dish and get NBC, this doesn’t seem true.
No landlord is required to permit any alterations to their buildings; installing cable would require drilling holes.
It’s really petty, but within his rights.
Yes. The landlord can absolutely forbid you from installing a satellite dish or drilling holes into his walls for cable wires. I don’t know why this even requires an explanation.
Don’t like it, move to a place with another provider, or buy your own place and install whatever you like.
He can not restrain your choice (unless you agreed to it in the rental contract), but he CAN prevent you from making any permanent attachment to the walls or the building.
However, your local affiliate should be receiveable via a simple tv antenna. (free, no less). So why not just attach one and enjoy the show without ANY hookup.
You aren’t receiving cable channels, you are receiving satellite.
There is a difference. You can certainly complain that you want the local NBC affiliate, but without knowing where you are, I don’t know what will happen. In some cases, you may have to use OTA broadcasts.
Of course, you could always try DirectTV or another provider. While the apartment complex can restrict you from modifications (in most states), they can’t stop you from using different equipment, and those satellite dishes don’t need to be installed, just pointed in a given direction.
Yes, but only if allowing you to go with another cable provider would cost them an undue burden or if the can prove that in the past, the other company has caused damage to the building or other problems. For example, if the cable company you want to order from does not run lines to the complex and it would require that wires go throughout the complex and holes need to be drilled and what not, then they can probably prevent you from getting cable.
Or, let’s say you want to go with Comcast, but in the past Comcast has damaged the property or something along those lines, your apt complex can refuse to allow them access.
However, if getting cable without another provider won’t cause them any undue burden, then they can’t dictate what cable provider you have.
If you rent you are bound to the landlords rules when it comes to the building. To get cable or DirecTV you have to have cabled ran to the building and the landord doesnt want three differant cables so he chose dish and that was it. It was proble in your lease no modifcation to the building structure with out written permission of the landord(pretty standord claue in rental agreements). And runniing cable falls under that
Yes, they can. An apartment complex is allowed to agree to a single supplier contract.
Sure can and most do
You do not own the building so the landlord can dictate what is and what can be attached to the building
In this case it is a DISH and a cable company can not drill holes into the building
100& legal
landlord tenant law varies widely by state and nation. In my state, no law prohibits you from entering into a lease that requires you to get dish network. You have the freedom to contract, or to refuse to contract, or to negotiate a better contract.