This is the information age, and unless you have been living under a rock for the last decade, you have noticed that part of the evolution of the information age is coming not just from the dawn of the Internet, but also in Satellite TV. It has been proven that kids learn from television and television shows. TV shows that are targeted towards your child’s are done with them in mind-how to keep their attention and get them to learn something. It’s not just all about Sesame Street anymore, there are hundreds of kids television programs from around the world that benefit kids with a variety of lessons, teachings and programs.

What are your kids watching on television? If you don’t have Satellite TV, your kids may be missing out on wonderful opportunities to learn from the programming that is available. With a Satellite television, you can access hundreds of stations from around the world that offer age-specific programming that targets your children.

No, I am not suggesting that your children watch TV non stop in place of education. However, Satellite TV can open new realms for your children, new worlds that they haven’t yet explored and even areas that you haven’t thought about teaching them yet. Some kids learn better from ‘seeing’ as opposed to simply reading or hearing. Television is geared to enrapture your children with fun, color and movement to keep them ‘glued to the tube’. However, in many children’s television shows that you can subscribe to on Satellite TV, morals, values, education and life lessons are woven into the stories and fun the show portrays.

Living in the country can certainly have its perks, the fresh air and beautiful scenery can make living in the country seem like living in a dream world. Nevertheless, all of the advents of modern technology are not always available to families that live in the country and unfortunately, my family was one of them.

Not only can I not get a high speed connection for my computer, but until the arrival of satellite TV, there were no cable television options available in our area. Why? The reason our family could not get cable connected was because there were no underground cables for cable in our town. With no underground cables to provide our house with cable, the doors of TV entertainment seemed permanently closed to our family.

You can’t possibly know how thrilled our family was to discover that satellite TV could bring us back into the modern world; with satellite television, our family was able to finally see all of the wonderful shows that only cable TV provides! Direct TV allowed our family to have cable in our home without the need for underground cable.

Instead, we now receive our cable via a satellite signal that is picked up by a small satellite dish on our roof! Thus, Direct TV helped us receive all of the benefits that every other cable customer has and reopened the doors to the world of TV entertainment! Finally, my children could watch all of their favorite cartoons, and I could watch all of my favorite movies without having to go to the movie theater or rent DVDs!

Just call us the Happy Henderson Family from West Virginia

Dish Network Customer Service Rep Scott Z here, with another story from my customer service journals.

Adolescence can be quite an awkward time for most teens, and little Kenny from Little Rock, Arkansas certainly highlighted that for me. Although the situation may already be cliché for some, you don’t really realize the awkwardness until you have personally dealt with it.

Kenny called Dish customer service this afternoon and caught me a bit off-guard with a lot of compliments and praises regarding the service that they had been getting from Dish Network. His tone of voice sounded like he needed something but couldn’t get it across. So, I made my move.

“Thank you for patronizing Dish TV’s products and services Kenny. Is there anything else that I can do for you?” Alas, those were the magic words that gave little Kenny enough confidence to do what he called in to do.

He wanted to access adult channels without his parents knowing it. This kid shyly asked, “Will you be able to substitute it with some other service in our bill, like a sports channel or something?” I could sense a mixture of determination and desperation on his part, especially when he said he was envious of his friends.

Refraining from lecturing him on the immorality of letting a 13 or 14-year-old kid gain adult channel access without the consent of his parents, I did what I had to do. I gently reminded him that only the listed Satellite TV Subscribers (his parents) could request a change of programming.

We were playing poker with Al and Sue who live across the street, when we started talking about TV. Al had seen all those ads where the cable companies make fun of Satellite TV and say that it’s expensive, a nuisance, and unreliable. I told Al that there must be some reason why the cable companies were spending so much money to talk us all out of using Satellite TV systems - maybe they were afraid of the competition.

My wife Myrna started talking about the poor picture quality that sometimes comes with cable and mentioned that we were thinking of switching to this Dish Network system, which gave us both Satellite and a new digital type TV, which was supposed to be better than our old set. We bickered back and forth debating the topic, until Myrna and I won the pot and decided to call it a night, our winnings in hand.

The next day, we called Dish Network. It worked like a charm. Everything was included and installed for us and we didn’t have to worry about any of this new modern-type technology. We even got this new kind of recorder, a DVR, that lets us record programs without having to fumble around looking for blank videotape. It also lets us pause our favorite program if the phone rings or we want to make a snack. Later, we can start it right where it left off.

As for being reliable, last week there was big rainstorm and lots of wind. We sat inside, cozy as can be and watched our Dish Network TV. We laughed when we saw the poor postman across the way at Al and Sue’s delivering that big, fat cable bill.

Ron from Texas