There was a response, i went into their IRC channel and was told that the developers are in europe, and since they dont use ATSC.. that it will more than likely never be fixed, and that is about it..
I did get mine working. but took about 5 hours manually editing and entering every channel...
Now that being said.. i ended up dropping it all. openelec is just too flakey, it would lock up on me if i fast foward through videos too fast. random issues.. might be my machine but never has a problem in windows..