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Crappy Hotel "Cable" Report - Bedford Park, IL

Tim from Springfield said:
Bumped as I am en route to a conference and staying at the Red Roof Inn off Larkin Road (IL-7) in Joliet, IL (off I-80 Exit 130). Here's their hotel cable (based off Direct TV) in all its glory:

2-WBBM (CBS)
5-WMAQ (NBC)
7-WLS (ABC)
8-Speed (unusual placement on the cable dial for that channel, IMO)
9-WGN (CW) (local Chicago version)
11-WTTW (PBS)
13-WFLD (Fox 32)
14-CNN
15-Headline News
16-Fox News
17-Weather Channel
18-ESPN
21-ESPN Classic
22-ESPN News
23-ESPN 2
24-Cartoon Network
25-USA
26-TNT
27-TBS
28-Discovery
29-GAC
30-HBO
31-HBO 2
32-CMT
60-Previews, PPV

And that's it--no other Chicago locals, "No Se Habla Espanol" (i.e. no WSNS, WGBO), no kids' channels outside of Cartoon Network (Nick, Disney, etc.). Not even the legendary WJYS-62 graces this lineup.

No WCIU? I'd be pissed. Next time in Joliet, stay at the Comfort Inn as they have full Comcast cable!
 
Recently, I've been in a hotel located in Santa Fe (not the capitol of New Mexico, but the Argentinian province). They had a terribly old 14 inches Philips Trendset TV, which only had around 38 channels, of which:
- at least 3 of them were just noise
- VH1 was repeated twice
- the channel 9 of Paraná wasn't present, so it was impossible to watch the shows from the most watched Argentine TV network (Artear)...
 
I'm back in Las Vegas, visiting family and friends (many of whom relocated from the L.A. area) for the Christmas weekend. I'm at the Palace Station, as opposed to the previous Motel 6s I recently went to last time I was in town. The channel picture quality is somewhat better the previous locales, but no premium channels are on this lineup (but they do offer pay-per-view movies via on demand). The cable and internet service is provided by the local Cox Communications system; they're the primary cable operator for greater Las Vegas.

Channels:

2 CNN
3 KSNV (NBC)
4 ESPN
5 KVVU (Fox)
6 KVCW (CW-33)
7 TBS
8 KLAS (CBS)
9 KBLR (Telemundo-39)
10 KLVX (PBS)
11 WGN America
12 KVMY (MyTV-21)
13 KTNV (ABC)
14 KINC (Univision-15)
15 CNBC
16 TNT
20 Travel Channel
21 ESPN2
22 HLN
24 The Weather Channel (with local inserts)
25 Discovery Channel
26 Disney Channel
27 MTV
28 Nickelodeon
29 Fox News Channel
30 Las Vegas Tourism Channel
31-32 Hotel Information
33 Speed Channel
34-35 Keno games
36 CCTV News (Chinese programming in English)
37 CCTV-E (Chinese)
42 Pay-Per-View previews
 
@Eduardo:

I was in a crappy cable lineup situation like yours. In the winter of 2004-2005, I stayed at a hotel in Kibbutz Lavi, Israel, and their cable lineup was even more bizarre. I don't remember the rest of the lineup, but Cartoon Network was repeated on (are you ready for this?) 17 different channel numbers! (I don't understand why one channel number apparently wasn't enough.) Now that's crappy hotel "cable" on steroids!
 
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