Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Time Warner Cable to Lose 19 Channels at Midnight



Most of the commenters on the Journal Times story are upset: http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2008/12/31/local_news/doc495bc3efe9214389847089.txt

I would miss Comedy Central, TV Land, and some of the movies on Spike.
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12 comments:

Unknown said...

I am considering dropping cable entirely.

December 31, 2008 at 8:20 PM
drewzepmeister said...

That's a major bummer. I would be missing my CSI episodes on Spike. My son would be missing his Spongebob.

December 31, 2008 at 8:52 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

I'm a TWC customer for TV and Internet. I live in an apt. building, but I see dishes, so I assume I have that option - for TV. Cable is still the fastest way to the net, and I'm hooked on that.

I read Mark's blog and I heartily concur with his statement: "I don't know which side to sympathize with, and frankly, I don't have any more sympathy to spare."

December 31, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Beejay said...

I am a Comcast customer..I'm safe...at least for the time-being!

Oh dear...again, I feel your pain.

December 31, 2008 at 9:27 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

From what I've read, a lot of this stuff is available on the web. I know that Comedy Central has a site with full length videos of the Daily Show and Colbert Report. If you have a broadband connection to the net, you might be OK on your favorite show. Check it out online.

December 31, 2008 at 9:42 PM
kkdither said...

I often watch online. Less commercials, more convenience. You just have to make sure you get to most of them within a week or they are removed. And really, if you miss it? Not that big of a deal...

December 31, 2008 at 11:21 PM
hale-bopp said...

I have been with Directv for years. The neat thing for me is that I get the east coast feed for all cable channels. I can watch the Daily Show at 9:00pm in the winter and 8:00pm in the summer.

They had better get their act together and agree soon or there will be a lot of unhappy people out there.

December 31, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Huck Finn said...

Ummm, what's cable? I have an antenna with a rotor and get at least 70 distinctive channels.

January 1, 2009 at 12:16 AM
SER said...

The only one I ever watched was/is the comedy channel, if it were to disappear it would not be no big loss.

The one thing that does bother me about it, TWC sells you a package with all these channels included, are they now going to reduce everyone’s bill each month if the channels are to go bye bye?

January 1, 2009 at 6:32 AM
homemomof2 said...

Well, they did reach a deal ... Thank God.

I was NOT looking forward to explaining to my 4 year old why the Backyardigans were gone. Yikes. That would have been a nightmare :)

January 1, 2009 at 7:24 AM
OrbsCorbs said...

I was watching the South Park marathon on Comedy Central last night and noticed that it didn't disappear at midnight.

They haven't released details of the deal yet. I won't be surprised if the "less than 25 cents per month, per subscriber" increase translates into another $10-$20 on my bill. After all, multimillionaire CEOs of multi-billion dollar corporations gotta eat, too, you know.

January 1, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Anonymous said...

I haven't seen any of this in the news:
Channel Notifications
Other upcoming changes include: WE moves to channel 73 and Oxygen moves to channel 74 and will require two-way digital equipment to view, PIN will move from channel 97 in the Milwaukee Metro lineup to digital channel 193 throughout SE WI, HSN will move to channel 97 in Milwaukee Metro and channel 96 in Plymouth/Dacada and Racine/Kenosha areas, replacing Access channel 96 in Racine/Kenosha and Plymouth/Dacada.

I think a lot of women will be mad if they don't have digital cable and can't get WE or Oxygen.

January 1, 2009 at 7:17 PM

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