I'm required to have local channels from DirecTV. I'd rather not and for this reason. Your signal to DirecTV is very poor quality, I'd say digititally compressed analog singal, it's blurry, definitely not a digital signal rebroadcast. It's as if it were coming to you digitally, converted to analog, then redigitized and broadcast out to us again. It's darker and more blurry than the original. Thanks to the Olympics I got to see the real difference while 2 channels were showing the same things. Not only that but occasionally the signal just completely drops out for several minutes to a half hour. I just missed 3 minutes of the Olympics around 3:20 am. This all happens at random times.  The sound will start to twitch in and out then the video feed just drops completely. I'm surprised we don't get a "Please wait while we buffer more content..." message when that happens. I'm tired of trying to watch something only to miss a significant portion of it because of your equipment issues.

It's gotten a little better lately but it's extremely irritating when it just shuts down for several minutes during a program.

Thank you for your post concerning signal quality. The KMTR Engineering team has been working with Direct TV to improve our signal. We deliver our off-air signal to their site and they redistribute it through their system. The loss of signal the other night was a routine maintenance issue. Our engineers needed to install a new piece of equipment and we chose the repeat of the Olympics overnight to install the equipment. Our apologies for disrupting your service. It was the time of night with the least number of viewers to disrupt.