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Comcast to move CN8, TV Guide Network, and truTV to digital

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From what it looks like, sometime between July 17 and 19, CN8, the TV Guide Network, truTV and a few other channels, will only be available if you have digital cable. I am having a hard time why they would do this, especially with the TV Guide channel. It makes no sense to have scrolling TV listings on digital cable when you have to have the Interactive Guide in order to get it. It really looks like they're phasing out analog cable.
 
TV Guide network still shows listings? I have the Directv version of the network and there are no listings, just the regular programming. I wonder if it will be the same with digital cable?
 
So up in New England CN8 becomes CN188(?). Considering it is a Comcast owned channel, I find it odd that they would give it the boot to digital, unless it has become so popular they are using it to entice people who do not have digital to get it.

I also find it highly odd that the TV Guide Network is moving to digital. Of course, TV Guide is trying to shift the focus away from listings and more towards long-form programming, so I think the listings portion will be gone soon (just like the magazine). Again, this may be Comcast trying to take away the listings in order to get people to go digital. I understand in Denver, TVGN moved to digital over a year ago. I don't know if it has the scrolling listings or not.

Here in Atlanta, truTV and TVGN are still analog (for now). Recently, CMT, the Hallmark Channel, and a local religious broadcaster were moved to digital. That religious broadcaster, AIB, occupies the digital channel 5 slot, while the analog channel 5 slot is vacant. I suspect in New England CN8 will still be digital channel 8, while analog channel 8 is static.

Comcast has tried moving PEG channels to digital (the 990's) in Michigan, but has been stopped (for now) by local and state governments. Comcast has plans in Atlanta (like they already have in Chicago) to go all-digital. If Comcast really wants everyone on the digital bandwagon...just go ahead and shut off the analog service.
 
In other news, Comcast Sportsnet Philadelphia will continue to be fed via microwave just to p*** off satellite owners. ;D
 
jal41 said:
So up in New England CN8 becomes CN188(?). Considering it is a Comcast owned channel, I find it odd that they would give it the boot to digital, unless it has become so popular they are using it to entice people who do not have digital to get it.
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It's probably more to free up space, and there is no contract issues for Comcast to move it. But, I'm sure with digital cable, it'd still be mapped to Ch.8 and the default channel for the digital box when its first turned on. I don't think its popular. If anything Comcast has done the oposite and disinvested in it. Atleast in Philadelphia, they nixed the CN8 newscast. They've prob seen the trend that any one station esp. a local one isn't going to get much of a return back.
 
From the website www.comcastdigitalworld.com it's stated:

"By moving channels to digital we create capacity for more HD channels, faster Internet speeds and other enhancements in response to customer demand."
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O.K. I suppose I can understand that. Where I am in Vermont, CN8 and NECN are in digital land if you don't have a digital cable box, but if you do have one, they are simuling in their original and new locations.

When Comcast did cut over to the new lineup, I lost MSNBC and TruTV. The message on the screen in their channel positions was I had to subscribe to them? Eh?!

Turns out(and now I do remember this), I had been on a grandfathered package from former provider Adelphia. I called(after getting no resolve from the online chat offering) and reset my package and will now be paying a little less for my bundled services, at least for the next year or so. (BTW: I have no stock in Comcast.)
 
Comcast is just one of the first MSO's to go "(Nearly) All Digital".

In Utah, we are told that analog will consist of only 35 channels (just like the "Good Old Days") in the near future. This will be, primarily, local Broadcast stations, and a few odds-and-ends.

After 2-17-12, they can go completely Digital, or can go sooner....if they give you your first converter box for free.
 
CrankyYankee said:
Turns out(and now I do remember this), I had been on a grandfathered package from former provider Adelphia.
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We have the same situation here in Londonderry, NH. What Comcast lists as being the various packages they offer and what we actually get are two decidedly different things. And thanks to the way Adelphia arranged the channel lineup, the digital channels from the different packages were intermingled. ::)
 
It look's like comcast really like to screw with there customers. ::) But i guess
i shouldn't speak so soon. Although cox here has been pretty good about keeping
thing status quo.
 
Here in Hanover, Pa. COMCAST runs the TV Guide channel on both digital and analog. Channel 8 and Channel 100. Both TV Guide channels show the listings. The only change is when both the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Nationals are playing at the same time, one of those games will be on Channel 8.
 
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