I miss my 10” C-band dish. I could purchase À la carte, the channels I actually wanted and spent less that $80 a year. I would only purchase ESPN only during football season.
The small dishes killed C-band. Since that happened, I have been streaming from the internet.
There is still plenty of great FREE programming on C-band.
If you can put your big dish back up you should be pleased with what you can get. Some good stuff on KU too, although I spend 90% of my time on C. And the receivers have gotten much smaller and much more powerful than they used to be.
Uh, 10" is a pretty small, compared to the satellite tv dishes I see on houses. /s
IIRC, the C-band sats only put out around 4 watts, whereas the sats for the ~20" dishes put out 20+ watts.
With your obsolete Direct satellite dish, wrap aluminum foil inside and aim it at the sun.
You can heat up hotdogs.