Channels/networks not carried in your area

[mescutia]

We were supposedly getting the Smithsonian Channel at some point, but it has yet to happen.

I spoke too soon. I stumbled across it last night. Well, the SD version. I need to see if we also get the HD version.

 

[ftballfan]

Another thing: Telemundo is hidden on digital cable (channel 611) on Comcast Grand Rapids, while Univision (channel 57) and Galavision (channel 46) have been carried on expanded basic for years.

Speaking of Charter, their system in Ludington has never had the CW (or the WB) on cable.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Boomerang has NEVER seen the light of day on Insight and now Comcast systems in Illinois (at least Peoria, Springfield, etc.). Not even on digital cable. All while Cartoon Network dumps the classics (Looney Tunes, Flintstones, etc.) for their Adult Swim-esque schedule.

 

[Morgan Wick]

Boomerang has NEVER seen the light of day on Insight and now Comcast systems in Illinois (at least Peoria, Springfield, etc.). Not even on digital cable. All while Cartoon Network dumps the classics (Looney Tunes, Flintstones, etc.) for their Adult Swim-esque schedule.

Boomerang has always had VERY limited distribution.

 

[tmanokc]

Cox Communications in Oklahoma City and Tulsa carry all of the multiplexes of HBO, Cinemax, Starz, MoviePlex (that wasn't added until this year) and both channels of The Movie Channel (although they removed TMC's West Coast feeds in '05/06), but three Showtime channels are still missing (Family Zone, Next and Women) as well as Flix (which the OKC system did carry briefly in the mid-1990s, but bumped it after a year for Encore; not sure whether it was ever carried in Tulsa in the past as the Cox system there was TCI prior to 2000).

Cox also carries only the main channel of Epix, but then again so do most providers other than Dish or Verizon FiOS (BTW, I think Showtime should merge with Epix with the Paramount/MGM/Lionsgate consortium Studio 3 Partners jointly owning Showtime in a 50/50 split with CBS, Showtime needs the bigger name films and concerts, and Epix is basically shunned by TWC, Comcast, Cablevision and DirecTV).

 

[nathannah]

Cox also carries only the main channel of Epix, but then again so do most providers other than Dish or Verizon FiOS (BTW, I think Showtime should merge with Epix with the Paramount/MGM/Lionsgate consortium Studio 3 Partners jointly owning Showtime in a 50/50 split with CBS, Showtime needs the bigger name films and concerts, and Epix is basically shunned by TWC, Comcast, Cablevision and DirecTV).

Epix was created solely by MTV/Viacom as a temper tantrum response to Showtime rejecting an expensive new deal for them back in 2007 because Paramount had been giving Showtime (which they formerly owned until the 2005 CBS/Viacom split) nothing but bombs and aged genre films for years. Lionsgate also needed a more prime spot for their content, thus they paired with Viacom and MGM to create Epix.

Unless someone at Viacom finally realizes that forcing another movie channel on us is stupid, the Epix/Showtime merger will never come. And Showtime has pretty much said they don't need the product anyways as they have plenty of other small and big studios they get films from. I have it only because it was forced on me in a bundle and I have watched a grand total of three movies from it.

 

[Morgan Wick]

Which begs the question, why the hell was Showtime given to CBS and the Paramount movie studio given to Viacom when the split happened? Especially since Viacom was supposedly the cable half and CBS got to keep the Paramount TV studio? And why do people think CBS and Viacom are "still effectively the same company" because of their shared National Amusements/Sumner Redstone ownership given stuff like the Epix/Showtime situation?

 

[Kurt Toy]

In the Pittsburgh area Antenna TV isn't shown.

 

[onairb]

Boomerang has NEVER seen the light of day on Insight and now Comcast systems in Illinois (at least Peoria, Springfield, etc.). Not even on digital cable. All while Cartoon Network dumps the classics (Looney Tunes, Flintstones, etc.) for their Adult Swim-esque schedule.

Boomerang has always had VERY limited distribution.

Anyone who doesn't have Boomerang, you're not missing much; a few 'classic' Hanna Barbera shows, but nothing like they used to have..and no trace of any Warner Brothers cartoons, mostly just reruns of old CN junk:
http://www.locatetv.com/listings/boomerang

 

[Mr Tony]

In the Pittsburgh area Antenna TV isn't shown.

since no local station has it that is why its not carried there on cable
Once someone takes the affiliation for ANtenna TV and puts it on a subchannel then cable can carry it

 

[mgsports]

A Sub Channel is only part of a Local Channel so if Weigal wants to make it a National Channel it may then a Cable Company would have hook up with it or your Cable System would loose that Channel but might decided to put another Sub Channel in it's place.