Crappy Hotel Cable Lineup: Comfort Inn & Suites, Portland, OR (near Airport)

[crainbebo]

DirecTV is the source of this really crappy lineup. No PBS even! This was done with an LG HDTV, in 4:3 "stretch-o-vision".

2 KATU Portland (ABC)
3 CNN
4 Fox News
6 KOIN Portland (CBS)
7 ESPN2
8 KGW Portland (NBC)
10 ESPN U
12 KPTV Portland (Fox)
13 Root Sports
16 CNBC
17 TBS
18 FX
21 Spike
22 A&E
23 supposed to be History, but was a DirecTV logo with music!
24 Discovery Channel
29 Nickelodeon
30 Cartoon Network
31 ABC Family
32 USA
33 TNT
34 Lifetime
35 MTV
36 Animal Planet
37 Food Network
38 Travel Channel
39 CMT
40 AMC
41 HBO
42 HBO2

Missing: PBS (KOPB), CW (KRCW), MNTV (KPDX), any SS channels, and NO MAIN ESPN CHANNEL!!!

-crainbebo

 

[searadiofreak]

If you are a local news freak, then NWCN is lacking here. (Northwest Cable News Network). Not acceptable, should be part of any hotel network

 

[DToTheJ]

23 supposed to be History, but was a DirecTV logo with music!

What kind of music?

By the way... does Channel 12 still show "Perry Mason" after all these years?

 

[Sammi Brie]

Two notes:

-Since the lineup is DirecTV-sourced, NWCN is immediately out of the question.
-I can't say the last time I've seen an RSN on a hotel cable system.

 

[PDXREXX]

Two notes:

-Since the lineup is DirecTV-sourced, NWCN is immediately out of the question.
-I can't say the last time I've seen an RSN on a hotel cable system.

DirecTV owns Root Sports so it
kinda make sense but forget
about Comcast sportsnet NW

 

[crainbebo]

I think it was instrumental music supplied from one of the music channels that DirecTV provides.

-crainbebo

 

[cyberdad]

As posted previously in other threads, I travel in my work.  I'm lifetime platinum with Marriott, so I've spent LOADS of time in hotels. (Platinum requires 75 Marriott-brand nights/year.  Lifetime requires minimum 1000 nights and ten years along with other criteria).  

Anyway, the fact is hotels have gotten much, much better in providing more and better TV choices over the last ten years.  That said, there are still plenty of exceptions.  And it's still not unusual to find the channel directory to be woefully out of sync with what's actually on the TV.  I'm not disputing that Crainbebo's hotel room lineup was crappy. But ten years ago, it would probably have exceeded the average number of channels available in U.S. hotel rooms.  (Canadian hotels typically have more channels, European hotels typically have fewer than we do.)

What got my attention about this thread...if I'm understanding things correctly....is the matter of the hotel's TV service provider omitting a competitor's channel(s).  There's plenty of this still going on, but it's becoming less and less common.  The cable and satelite companies are finding in today's economy that consumers increasingly find "missing channels" to be deal-breakers.  There's real incentive for them to just "suck it up" and put their customers first.  

My guess is that this will eventually make its way into what's being offered in hotel packages.  But given that "pay per view" is a big moneymaker for both the providers and the hotels, I wouldn't expect free alternatives to become too generous too soon.  One way to get their attention is call the hotel directly to make your reservation and ask, "Will I be able to watch the game?" etc.  If they lose enough perishable inventory (rooms) because they're not giving guests what they want, they'll literally "get with the program".

Heck...maybe they'll even get around to putting actual HD channels on their HD TVs

 

[searadiofreak]

Two notes:

-Since the lineup is DirecTV-sourced, NWCN is immediately out of the question.
-I can't say the last time I've seen an RSN on a hotel cable system.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the conflict between DirectTV and NWCN?