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Fxx

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Neel

Guess I'm not getting it. :(
I have basic cable plus the one higher tier which gives me Science Channel, H2, as well as Fox Sports 2 and others that you get with paying a little extra. But the they still have FXX as part of the highest tier which is all regional sports and movie channels. Thank you Charter. I thought it would become a basic Chanel like FX.
 
FXX is still in the 400s digital sports area on Comcast. I'd say it needs to be moved lower down the digital cable spectrum, in the 100s probably (where a lot of entertainment channels are like TV Land, GSN etc)

-crainbebo
 
Interesting. I thought I read that UVerse was moving FX to 129/1129 and FXX would take FX's old spot on 128/1128.
For now at least FXX is in the sports tier on 654/1654. Maybe the dude that moves channels around took Labor Day off?
 
They were quick to move speed/FS1 so I thought the same would happen with FXX. Otherwise not a lot of people will be getting this channel
 
crainbebo said:
FXX is still in the 400s digital sports area on Comcast. I'd say it needs to be moved lower down the digital cable spectrum, in the 100s probably (where a lot of entertainment channels are like TV Land, GSN etc)
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Lower than that here in the Denver area. In the 100-130 region, we have.....

104 TV Guide Network
105 CET (Comcast Entertainment Network - They could probably move it here if anywhere in this region)
107 Al Jazeera America (Formerly Current TV)
119 PBS Sprout
120 Nick Jr
121 HUB
122 Discovery XD
123 Disney Jr
124 Nickelodeon 2
125 Discovery Baby
126 Nickelodeon Toon

128-130 are news channels (Bloomberg, MSNBC & Fox Business). Anything above that is pretty much a mashup of various genres till 165 (Colorado State Legislature), NFL Network on 168 (This one has ALWAYS been THE oddball one), 169 (C-SPAN 3) & 170 (C-SPAN 2)

On HD, FXX is on Channel 692 but since the HD channel lineup is an ABSOLUTE MESS right now with NO sense of organization whatsoever (Unlike their SD counterparts), I don't expect that to change (At least not anytime soon anyways)

Cheers & 73 :)
 
Neel said:
They were quick to move speed/FS1 so I thought the same would happen with FXX. Otherwise not a lot of people will be getting this channel
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In the Denver Area, Comcast didn't have to move it as SPEED was on Channel 78 in SD for quite sometime. This puts it reasonaly close to Comcast's very own NBC Sports Network (Channel 73, formerly occupied by Versus prior to the merger with NBC)

Cheers & 73 :)
 
COX here in Connecticut still has FXX on Channel 131 where the Sports Channels are. They need to move it to Channel 23 SD (1023 HD) so that it will be next to FX (which is 24 SD and 1024 HD)

Last year they moved Speed from the Sports Package to Digital Channel 85 (SD), so Fox Sports 1 is on 85. Fox Sports 2 however is with the other Sports Channel Channel 140-something?

COX can't make up its mind. When my family first moved to Southington in '03 Speed was on a regular Channel. 69? 70-something? I don't remember. Then it along with several other Channels including TCM, CMT, Discovery Health (now OWN), and MTV2 all moved to different digital packages. Then last year Golf Channel, OWN, Speed, and National Geographic moved to lower level digital packages (86, 84, 85, and 83 respectively). A couple weeks ago they also moved Hallmark, Hallmark Movie Channel, and GSN to lower Digital packages. (90, 91, 92).
 
On Comcast Houston, FXX-The new channel formerly known as Fox Soccer Channel-is still located on the sports tier, where channels like CBS Sports Network, MLB-TV, NBA-TV & ESPNEWS are all also located.
 
Received the following from COX support in Phoenix regarding FXX being in the Sports and Info Tier:
"Fox networks made the decision to change Fox Soccer (carried on the Cox Advanced TV Sports & Information Pak) to FXX. Cox is now evaluating the placement of FXX on the line up."
 
JeeperOne said:
In the Denver Area, Comcast didn't have to move it as SPEED was on Channel 78 in SD for quite sometime. This puts it reasonaly close to Comcast's very own NBC Sports Network (Channel 73, formerly occupied by Versus prior to the merger with NBC)

Cheers & 73 :)
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I can do one better. In Seattle, Comcast's SD lineup goes:

31-ESPN
32-ESPN2
33-FS1
34-NBCSN

This lineup has been completely unchanged since the early 2000's, when if you had told someone that the NHL would eventually air on the network then known as OLN they would have laughed your face off. By sheer coincidence, Comcast lucked into the exact relative placement of four general all-sports networks that you would impose if you were putting it together from scratch. (Also, Root Northwest, which used to be FSN, is at channel 30.)

HD is a different story; FS1 inherited a moderately desirable channel number of 620, but FXX inherited Fox Soccer's position of 618. 645 is C-SPAN, 646 is Bloomberg, and all the channels from there are taken through 709. So FXX could eventually move to 710 or 711.

But apparently Comcast is supposed to get FS2 at some point, and I'd like to think they wouldn't want to give its HD channel a lower channel number than FS1. Well, channels 617 to 637 are all taken, Outdoor at 635, Sportsman at 636, NFL Redzone at 637, and ESPN Goal Line/Buzzer Beater still isn't available in HD at all. So the only alternative would seem to be to throw out one of the duplicate ESPN or ESPN2 channels at 623 and 624, ahead of ESPNU and ESPNEWS at 621 and 622, but with longer-standing spots at 173 and 174. Or maybe they could do something with NFL Network HD, which is at 418 with the SD sports channels...
 
Neel said:
They were quick to move speed/FS1 so I thought the same would happen with FXX. Otherwise not a lot of people will be getting this channel
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Fox renegotiated deals for FS1 though. There's a generic feed of Speed out there, much like ABC/Disney is doing with SoapNet and Nickelodeon did for Nick GAS.

fxx/Fox Soccer was not renegotiated (Neither was FS2/Fox Soccer), so that's why fxx is still sitting on the sports tiers of most cable companies.
 
Mainedude2007 said:
Fox renegotiated deals for FS1 though. There's a generic feed of Speed out there, much like ABC/Disney is doing with SoapNet and Nickelodeon did for Nick GAS.

fxx/Fox Soccer was not renegotiated (Neither was FS2/Fox Soccer), so that's why fxx is still sitting on the sports tiers of most cable companies.
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It's actually Fuel.
 
Mainedude2007 said:
Fox renegotiated deals for FS1 though. There's a generic feed of Speed out there, much like ABC/Disney is doing with SoapNet and Nickelodeon did for Nick GAS.
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Except SoapNet isn't on the air anymore
fxx/Fox Soccer was not renegotiated (Neither was FS2/Fox Soccer), so that's why fxx is still sitting on the sports tiers of most cable companies.
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They don't need to negotiate new deals every time a channel is flipped to something else. The cable companies just GET OFF THE BEHINNIES & ADJUST THE LINEUP ACCORDINGLY !!!

Nothing the channel provider (In this case, Fox) can do but wait.....

Cheers & 73 :)
 
TroyG said:
On Comcast Houston, FXX-The new channel formerly known as Fox Soccer Channel-is still located on the sports tier, where channels like CBS Sports Network, MLB-TV, NBA-TV & ESPNEWS are all also located.
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In my opinion, Comcast Houston's line-up is a complete mess. Channels are all over the place. Al Jazeera America (formerly Current) is buried deep inside a sports block in the 100s. Fox Sports 2 comes before Fox Sports 1. TVLand and GSN are buried deep in the digital tier. And right now, I can't even find FXX.
 
Comcast where I am (southern NH) is more of a mess in HD than it is in SD. Observe:

SD:
19 NECN
38 CNN
39 HLN
40 CNBC
41 MSNBC
42 Fox News
43 Bloomberg
107 Al Jazeera America
114 MSNBC
128 Bloomberg
133 Fox Business
168 BBC World News

HD:
710 NECN
726 MSNBC
759 HLN
760 CNN
790 Fox News
791 Fox Business
792 CNBC
833 Bloomberg

Here's the part that I don't get: Comcast could have easily made the HD channel lineup more logically organized as they added channels, grouping similar channels together with gaps to allow for future channels in a group (the eventual Al Jazeera America HD, for example) to be added. Alternatively, they could have had the lineups match the SD lineups in ordering, making it easier for viewers to remember which HD channels to go to. (738 CNN, 739 HLN, etc.) But they didn't, and the channel lineup is completely confusing as a result. It's a good thing I have my TiVo set to only show me the channels I'm at least halfway interested in; otherwise, I'd never find anything. (The on-screen guide in the TiVo app on my iPad also helps.)
 
MarcB said:
Actually it is. They changed their mind about shutting down. If they were shutting down they wouldn't be acquiring new programming,.
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Really? It must only exist online (ALA ESPN 3) because it was dropped from the Comcast lineup the day after the final scheduled broadcast

As a result, Channel 184 (Where it used to sit on) has been empty & no longer listed since

Cheers & 73 :)
 
http://sn.soapnet.go.com/schedule shows up on SoapNet's website as their current schedule, minus iYoung and the Restless, which moved it's same-day reruns to TVGN several weeks ago.

As for the subject, I've not looked on the channel list on the sat-system at work to see where FXX is, it could have moved, or might still be with the sports stuff. Usually DirecTV is pretty good about shuffling if a channel change happens.
 
JeeperOne said:
Really? It must only exist online (ALA ESPN 3) because it was dropped from the Comcast lineup the day after the final scheduled broadcast
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Because if Comcast dropped it it clearly isn't being shown anywhere anymore! (What likely happened was that only those providers that played hardball originally are showing it; if Comcast agreed to drop it when Disney still wanted to drop it then that doesn't change if Disney says "Psyche!" later.)

Meanwhile, what Tim says suggests Comcast Seattle might not have a problem with putting FS2 HD at 618 or even leaving FXX there indefinitely. Recently Comcast added a bunch new HD channels and spewed them out all over the place with almost no rhyme or reason, most of them going in almost random order on 710 and above. SD has the same problem but more available channels; all the channels from 400 to 419 are taken and 420 is where GamePlan/Full Court start, so later additions like the Pac-12 Networks, Sportsman, and Goal Line/Buzzer Beater are stashed in the 430s (for reference, NFL RedZone is 410).
 
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