It all has to do with the 'footprint' of the satellite, which is the reception area. American satellites, such as DirecTV, broadcast to the United States, with some coverage to Canada. These satellites are in geosychronous orbit with the US, and 'stay' in the same position, above the Equator.
You will not, in any way, be able to receive the signals from these satellites. Some American programs are rebroadcast on the European satellites, but not a whole lot. Astra satellite has CNBC which rebroadcasts some US programs, such as Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and others, but you won't regularly see the sports programs. The US military television stations, and radio stations, broadcast almost all American programs, but I don't think they're on any of the satellites. If you're close enough to receive those, you can get some coverage. I'm in Ireland, and I have a 80 cm dish and receive Astra just fine. On the Continent, a 60 cm or smaller dish would work just fine. I suggest you talk with some satellite dish dealers there to see what's available. There's a British magazine called What Satellite or something like that which has listings. --Joe

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You won't find out much by asking in shops - this is Romania! and the staff are not trained to be knowledgable or helpful as you may have found out.

So, you could do a lot worse than walk into the Dubliner pub on Blvd Titulescu and ask some of the expats in there. I found a guy called Lucian who was able to deal with such matters. I know it sounds strange but this guy is well-known to many ex-pats as Lucian the TV man. He can fix things for you.

They have all sorts of satellite channels in the Dubliner and I think Lucian did the installation for them.

Happy viewing.

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