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Channels/networks not carried in your area

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What are some national channels/networks that aren't carried in your area but are carried in another part of the country by the same company?
Charter is the king of this.
Channels that Charter in Northwest Michigan is missing that are carried on other Charter systems (Parentheses indicate Charter areas that carry those channels)
5StarMax (Mid-Michigan)
CNN en Espanol (Mid-Michigan, SE Michigan, West Michigan)
Discovery Channel en Espanol (Mid-Michigan, SE Michigan, West Michigan)
HBO Comedy (Mid-Michigan, SE Michigan, St. Louis, Upper Peninsula, West Michigan)
HBO Zone (Mid-Michigan, SE Michigan, St. Louis, Upper Peninsula, West Michigan)
Lifetime Real Women (St. Louis)
OuterMax (Mid-Michigan)
Ovation (St. Louis)
Showtime Family Zone (St. Louis)
Showtime Next (St. Louis)
Telemundo (Mid-Michigan)
ThrillerMax (Mid-Michigan, SE Michigan, St. Louis, Upper Peninsula, West Michigan)
TV One (St. Louis)
UniMas (Mid-Michigan, West Michigan)
Univision (Mid-Michigan, SE Michigan, St. Louis, West Michigan)
Word Network (St. Louis)

For the Spanish channels, there isn't enough demand, but HBO Latino IS carried in NW Michigan. I bet there are more out there.
 
We have no 5StarMax, Wmax, OuterMax, ActionMax, ThrillerMax here on Comcast Seattle. Also no Lifetime Real Women, and no WGN America either!

-crainbebo
 
WGN America is rarely seen in the west. It was at one time, but those cable companies in the west that carry it are fewer and fewer. I like their sports coverage, some good movie selections, and an occasional newscast from the 3rd largest market.
 
Is it just the West where WGNA is spotty? I don't think we've had WGNA in Seattle for as long as I remember, and Time Warner Cable in LA had WGNA when I went there a few years ago.
 
searadiofreak said:
WGN America is rarely seen in the west. It was at one time, but those cable companies in the west that carry it are fewer and fewer. I like their sports coverage, some good movie selections, and an occasional newscast from the 3rd largest market.
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Many cable systems in the Northeast don't have WGN America, it's not even on cable in Chicago. It wasn't on cable in Columbia, MO until 2002, but how many people on the west coast watch the Chicago news?
 
Morgan Wick said:
Is it just the West where WGNA is spotty? I don't think we've had WGNA in Seattle for as long as I remember, and Time Warner Cable in LA had WGNA when I went there a few years ago.
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some places never carried WGN America, instead they had a closer indie station like KPLR (before the WB/CW), KSHB (before FOX/NBC), or KSTW (before UPN/CW) until syndex made them space wasting stations and just removed them, Tribune has never really closed it's clout (if it has any) to get WGN America on in places where it's missing
 
Here in southern NH, we don't get WGN America. We did get it way back in 1984 [just after my family moved here from the Chicago area, ironically], but it was replaced with VH-1.

We were supposedly getting the Smithsonian Channel at some point, but it has yet to happen.
 
We've never had an ION, Univision or Telemundo affiliate in the Charlotte DMA.
 
I thought that when ION was PAX, WAXN occasionally
picked up some of their shows, even though it was not considered
an affiliate.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point does not have Univision or
Telemundo either, and I don't believe Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville
has ION, Univision, or Telemundo, nor do Columbia and Florence/Myrtle Beach.

Raleigh/Durham does have a Univision o&o (WUVC) and there are ION stations
in Raleigh and Fayetteville.
 
Comcast in Petaluma, CA(Sonoma county, north of SF) does not offer a few stations that I know are available on AT&T U-verse, particularly Fuel(Speed is on Comcast, but on a tier we don't subscribe to), and 'Cloo'(formerly Sleuth?)
Comcast(and prior to that TCI) in the Bay Area didn't carry WGN for many years, until just about every system addedit at the start of 2005. Until then, I think the only parts of the Bay Area that received WGN were Palo Alto and points further south(not served by Comcast yet, in the '90s).
 
I was staying at a hotel in Jamestown, ND which offers the whole cable lineup (Cable Services Inc.).
The only Pay Channels available were Showtime and TMC, No HBO, Cinemax, or Starz/Encore
 
searadiofreak said:
WGN America is rarely seen in the west. It was at one time, but those cable companies in the west that carry it are fewer and fewer. I like their sports coverage, some good movie selections, and an occasional newscast from the 3rd largest market.
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WGN America is on Comcast cable 9 in the Portland area, Comcast cable 21 in Spokane area, and Comcast cable 33 in San Francisco Bay Area.
 
Oh! No Cloo (ex-Sleuth), and no Crime & Investigation Network on Comcast Seattle either. Both are on Froniter FiOS, but Frontier's fiber optics only go so far.

-crainbebo
 
It's odd that Cloo and Chiller are not carried on Comcast in Houston, since these networks are owned by NBC/Universal, which was is now combined with Comcast under the same ownership. the right hand of the corporation does not know what the left hand of the corporation is doing, not to give cable coverage to two of their own channels in one of the largest markets in the country.
 
I believe Comcast's lack of coverage of Cloo and Chiller predates the merger... even though it did used to carry Trio, the network now known as Cloo. That they still don't carry either network several years afterward may betray a lack of confidence to the point they may only exist to fulfill existing agreements at this point.
 
No Chiller as well in Seattle on Comcast. It is carried on FiOS. When we had FiOS back in Bothell I enjoyed watching Chiller more than Syfy. Better scary programming.

We also have NO OTA Telemundo affiliate in Seattle. Just Univision and Azteca America, and Mundofox.

-crainbebo
 
Charter in the San Gabriel Valley does not carry The Weather Channel or TV Guide Network. Always thought that was off given that these are fairly common on most systems. We get WGN A, but it was one of the few networks not added in HD
 
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