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Channels 5 & 6 on Time Warner Rochester

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therealjm12

Channels 5 & 6 have been vacant for over a year now. I find this very annoying. Two prime channels with no video. If you have basic cable this must be very annoying. Just the local channels and shopping & foriegn channels to watch.
My wish list for one of those channels would be American Life. No shopping, sports,
religion, and no other language than English. Seems like they could move a couple more popular channels from the digital tier down to analog.
 
Does Time Warner in Rochester carry CBLT or CBMT? If not, that's one channel they should carry. Maybe CBLFT can have the other channel.
 
azumanga said:
Does Time Warner in Rochester carry CBLT or CBMT? If not, that's one channel they should carry. Maybe CBLFT can have the other channel.
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We lost CBLFT back in 1984 from the system (it was People's Cable then in the suburbs; I don't think American Cable in the city ever had CBLFT). We've never had CBLT on cable here, sadly. Just a little too far from the border.

To answer Mark's original question...I'm pretty sure channels 5 and 6 on the system are still being used, just not for analog video. I suspect that spectrum is now being used for Road Runner or phone service.

Analog cable is on the way out, in any event, not just at TW Rochester but around the country. I expect we'll need boxes (or whatever the next generation of decoder devices might be) for just about everything on the system within the next few years.
 
Scott Fybush said:
To answer Mark's original question...I'm pretty sure channels 5 and 6 on the system are still being used, just not for analog video. I suspect that spectrum is now being used for Road Runner or phone service.
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Interesting. That's not the case here on the CNY systems out of Syracuse. Every basic analog channel is in use for video. Maybe they skipped a few upper-tier analog channels to make room for RR or phone. That is a shame for the folks on basic cable in Rochester -- having two channels fewer than most. But realistically, how many people these days have only basic cable?
 
In fairness, Animal Planet and TBS weren't part of the "lifeline" basic service when they were on 5 and 6, anyway. TWC was supposed to be trapping them out for lifeline basic customers. I don't know if they really did that or not, but at least according to TWC's published channel charts, AP and TBS didn't change tier levels when they moved to whatever higher channels they're now on.
 
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