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Cable TV Report: Holiday Inn Express near Raleigh/Durham Airport (RDU)

KML0224

KML0224

Like last week in Columbus, OH at the Best Western Port Columbus, the remote says LodgeNet, but the lineup isn't actually that bad. Here's what I see:

0- Welcome channel [default when the TV is turned on]
1- TV guide Channel
2- WUVC-TV (UNI) channel 40 Fayetteville
3- WRAL-TV (CBS) channel 5 Raleigh
4- WUNC-TV (PBS) channel 4 Chapel Hill
5- Interactive TV 3
6- WLFL-TV (CW) channel 22 Raleigh
7- WNCN-TV (NBC) channel 17 Goldsboro
8- WRAZ-TV (FOX) channel 50 Raleigh
9- Interactive TV 2
10- WRDC-TV (MY) channel 28 Durham
11- HBO
12- WGN America
13- WTVD-TV (ABC) channel 11 Durham
14- News 14 Carolina [cable news channel]
15- HSN
16- QVC
17- AMOS (?)
18- Educational Access
20- Telefutura *
22- WRAY-TV (TCT) channel 30 Wilson
23- WRPX-TV (ION) channel 47 Rocky Mount
24- Triangle...???
25- USA
26- TNT
27- A&E
28- ABC Family
29- CNN
30- Discovery
31- ESPN
32- ESPN 2
33- Lifetime
34- TBS
35- Discovery Health
36- Comedy Central
37- CNBC
38- AMC
39- TLC
40- Spike TV
41- HLN
42- The Weather Channel (local version with Raleigh updates)
43- Nickelodeon
44- TRU-TV
45- MSNBC
46- Animal Planet
47- Lifetime Movie Network
48- VH1
49- SyFy
50- FOX Sports
51- GOLF Network
52- BET
53- MTV
54- TV Land
55- Oxygen
56- History Channel
57- Disney Channel
58- FOX News Channel
59- HGTV
60- Food Network
61- We
62- E!
63- Soap Network
64- Cartoon Network
65- Vs.
66- VH1 Classic
67- TCM
68- Fit TV
69- CMT
70- National Geographic
71- FX
72- Bravo
73- Hallmark Channel
74- Nick Jr.

All this was done in dreaded 4:3 Stretchovision, onto a 37" LG LCD HDTV. :mad:
 
KML-224 said:
All this was done in dreaded 4:3 Stretchovision, onto a 37" LG LCD HDTV. :mad:
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Go to the television menu guide and change the setting. Voila!
Granted, it resets when you turn off the tv set then turn it on, but at least you can do away with Stretch-O-Vision when watching at that moment.
 
Great idea Jay! Only problem there is that I went straight to the menu buttons on the side of the TV. However, some of the functions won't work without the arrow keys on the original TV remote. :mad:
 
KML-224 said:
Like last week in Columbus, OH at the Best Western Port Columbus, the remote says LodgeNet, but the lineup isn't actually that bad. Here's what I see:
22- WRAY-TV (TCT) channel 30 Wilson
23- WRPX-TV (ION) channel 47 Rocky Mount
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WOW. I'm shocked that LodgeNet would have ION and TCT!! :eek: :eek:

PS KML, what's the Triangle ??? CH 24 you were talking about?

-crainbebo
 
Is there a reason you have a * next to Telefutura?

And I wouldn't be surprised if that channel 20 feed isn't actually WTNC-LD 26-1/WUVC-DT 40-2, the local Telefutura feed.

- Trip
 
Univision and Telefutura in a hotel? Amazing.
 
Telefutura here may be a local analog low-power TV station. I doubt it's a subchannel from Fayetteville's Univision station. As for Triangle? No clue! That's what the graphic in the corner said.
 
Um, there is no more Telefutura local analog station. It flipped to digital simulcasting WUVC.

- Trip
 
That's TWC's lineup for the RDU area, so no surprise there. They say that 24 is a channel called...Carolina 24. I think it's in the vein of some of TWC's other specialty channels (not like N14Carolina, which is something completely different).
 
The regional news channel is branded as News 14 Carolina and is operated by Time-Warner Cable. As for other similar channels closer to my home, I have NECN, a.k.a. New England Cable News, based in Newton, MA (borders Boston on the west). It's at least half-owned by Comcast and is on most cable systems in MA, CT and NH. I think some in ME and VT carry it, too. On the Comcast system serving New Britain, CT, it's on digital cable only (my TV's QAM tuner gets it on channel 88-1).
 
There are/were a bunch of them in the same vein with the same ownership:

NY1 (New York, the first)
Bay News 9 (Tampa)
Capital News 9 (Albany, nowadays called YNN along with others in the state)
News 24 Houston (2002-2004, a joint venture with Belo)
News 8 Austin
News 9 San Antonio (dead)

All of them (except NY1 and maybe N9SA) had identities done by John Christopher Burns at launch. (Very nice ones, at that!) His website has some good examples of the large volumes of collateral he created.
 
KML-224 said:
As for Triangle? No clue! That's what the graphic in the corner said.
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That's kind of an access channel the show programs of interest to the Research Triangle area, thus the "Triangle" name. They call the area this because the cities of Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill, and the major research universities based in each (Duke, NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill, respectively) form a triangle, with the RTP business park roughly in the middle.
 
Yeah, I kinda figured that part of it out. Here in Connecticut, you kinda sorta have a triangle with Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury, but it's not nearly on the same level.
 
This looks like the TW analog line-up for Cary NC, a city just south of the Research Triangle. The only difference I can see is the Cary line-up has "Cary TV" on channel 11--your line-up has HBO, which is available only on digital in the Triangle...obviously, the hotel has converted HBO to an analog channel and deleted "Cary TV." There are a few differences in the Cary line-up and the TW line-up in Raleigh and Durham. For example, in Raleigh WTVD is on 9 and WRAZ is on 13. In Durham, WUNC is NOT on channel 4. Don't ask me why the channels are not uniform throughout the area.
 
The channels not being uniform had to do with ingression on the VHF band during the analog television days. It was why WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford was on Comcast cable 2 (and all the names of the cable we had before them). Today they're on cable channel 3 for analog cable customers.

As for the cable lineup, my hotel was actually in Morrisville, NC by a couple hundred feet. A quick right out of the lot onto Airport Road and then an immediate right towards other hotels and a Wendy's, had this sign greet you:

http://www.snapgalaxy.com/KL71/photos/1174151

Then there's this photo:

http://www.snapgalaxy.com/KL71/photos/1174956

The roadway running horizontally is Airport Road. The road at the top right is I-40. The longer whitish rectangle immediately under Airport Road is the Holiday Inn Express. Go past those trees immediately to the right of the hotel and there's a creek marking the Cary town line.
 
KML-224 said:
The channels not being uniform had to do with ingression on the VHF band during the analog television days. It was why WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford was on Comcast cable 2 (and all the names of the cable we had before them). Today they're on cable channel 3 for analog cable customers.

As for the cable lineup, my hotel was actually in Morrisville, NC by a couple hundred feet. A quick right out of the lot onto Airport Road and then an immediate right towards other hotels and a Wendy's, had this sign greet you:

http://www.snapgalaxy.com/KL71/photos/1174151

Then there's this photo:

http://www.snapgalaxy.com/KL71/photos/1174956

The roadway running horizontally is Airport Road. The road at the top right is I-40. The longer whitish rectangle immediately under Airport Road is the Holiday Inn Express. Go past those trees immediately to the right of the hotel and there's a creek marking the Cary town line.
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Which explains why you got the Cary TW line-up However, you referred to Cary as a "town" which is not really accurate since the population of Cary is about 140,000.
 
fortmill said:
...you referred to Cary as a "town" which is not really accurate since the population of Cary is about 140,000.
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Take it up with the City of Cary or the NCDOT -- the city limit sign referred to Cary as being a "town".
 
Thank you AZUMANGA! (Sorry FORTMILL!) Getting this back to the subject at hand, let's see if any other travelers lucky enough to get stuck with arriving at RDU get this same lineup at their place. As for me, the original poster, I now have to head from Connecticut down to Orlando and then up to Nashville, TN. Hopefully by then, there will be a new thread. :)
 
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