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Comcast launched a new Country video channel tonight, on their digital lineup, called Great American Country (GAC). It is mostly Current Country Music videos with specialty shows at night. They are advertising a program called Country Classics, which comes on during the day, does anyone know of this program and are they old classic pieces that the Nashville Network played from Hee Haw, and other country programs, the show was called Country Standard Time and aired in 1990. Now if there was a full time Rock channel instead of the 6 Hip-Hop/Rap ones that are on full time, it would be nice for us non Rappers.....
 
> Comcast launched a new Country video channel tonight, on
> their digital lineup, called Great American Country (GAC).
> It is mostly Current Country Music videos with specialty
> shows at night. They are advertising a program called
> Country Classics, which comes on during the day, does anyone
> know of this program and are they old classic pieces that
> the Nashville Network played from Hee Haw, and other country
> programs, the show was called Country Standard Time and
> aired in 1990. Now if there was a full time Rock channel
> instead of the 6 Hip-Hop/Rap ones that are on full time, it
> would be nice for us non Rappers.....
>
GAC has been around for several years but not in this area. A couple years back the Grand Ole Opry live telecasts moved there from CMT, although they don't run new shows as often as CMT. Country Classics is hosted by WSM radio's Bill Cody, I think it's mostly older videos from the '80's -'90's but I'm not sure. Check their website for schedules. The channel is not as "slick" a presentation as CMT.

"Great American Country" (unrelated to the cable channel) was once a syndicated 24/7 country radio format in the '70's - '80's voicetracked by Bob Kingsley. When WRCP-FM became Sunny in 1977 I had an antenna rigged up so I could listen to GAC from WXKW in Allentown, not easy getting 104.1 with WIBF nearby on 103.9, but it was the only country FM around here for several years.
 
> Comcast launched a new Country video channel tonight, on
> their digital lineup, called Great American Country (GAC).
> It is mostly Current Country Music videos with specialty
> shows at night. They are advertising a program called
> Country Classics, which comes on during the day, does anyone
> know of this program and are they old classic pieces that
> the Nashville Network played from Hee Haw, and other country
> programs, the show was called Country Standard Time and
> aired in 1990. Now if there was a full time Rock channel
> instead of the 6 Hip-Hop/Rap ones that are on full time, it
> would be nice for us non Rappers.....
>
DirecTv has had GAC since I've had them. Didn't Comcast have a Rock MTV on the digital lineup that changed to a hip/hop/rap?
 
Thanks for the info, I do not recall Comcast ever carry-ing a Rock outlet, or the MTV empire having one, MTV-Hits, MTV, VH1 and MTV2 are mostly Rap and Hip Hop, VH1-Soul and MTV-Jamz are, you guessed it, VH1-Classic is adding more older Rap videos and then you have the Spanish music outlet and BET. There is no full time Rock channel, but there should be. How can Rock music be exposed without any full time channel. On another note, my system does not carry CMT, and never has, but from what I have seen of it, its pretty neat.
 
GAC has been around for several years and was offered on Comcast's basic cable out of Willingboro, NJ as of a few years ago.

It is a much lower budget version of CMT, but they play mostly videos. They are somewhere between CMT and VH1-Country in my opinion.



> > Comcast launched a new Country video channel tonight, on
> > their digital lineup, called Great American Country (GAC).
>
> > It is mostly Current Country Music videos with specialty
> > shows at night. They are advertising a program called
> > Country Classics, which comes on during the day, does
> anyone
> > know of this program and are they old classic pieces that
> > the Nashville Network played from Hee Haw, and other
> country
> > programs, the show was called Country Standard Time and
> > aired in 1990. Now if there was a full time Rock channel
> > instead of the 6 Hip-Hop/Rap ones that are on full time,
> it
> > would be nice for us non Rappers.....
> >
> GAC has been around for several years but not in this area.
> A couple years back the Grand Ole Opry live telecasts moved
> there from CMT, although they don't run new shows as often
> as CMT. Country Classics is hosted by WSM radio's Bill
> Cody, I think it's mostly older videos from the '80's -'90's
> but I'm not sure. Check their website for schedules. The
> channel is not as "slick" a presentation as CMT.
>
> "Great American Country" (unrelated to the cable channel)
> was once a syndicated 24/7 country radio format in the '70's
> - '80's voicetracked by Bob Kingsley. When WRCP-FM became
> Sunny in 1977 I had an antenna rigged up so I could listen
> to GAC from WXKW in Allentown, not easy getting 104.1 with
> WIBF nearby on 103.9, but it was the only country FM around
> here for several years.
>
 
Re: GAC - A Scripps Network

GAC is owned by Scripps, who also own The Food Network, HGTV, DIY, Fine Living, Shop At Home, Shopzilla on the Internet and a bunch of TV stations and newspapers.

They were acquired by Scripps about a year ago. Their focus is more classic country. They are concentrating on the music (videos, of course) and not so much the speciality programming of CMT like the endless countdown shows, i.e., "The 100 Greatest Country Music Deadbeats, " etc.
 
> Comcast launched a new Country video channel tonight, on
> their digital lineup, called Great American Country (GAC).
> It is mostly Current Country Music videos with specialty
> shows at night. They are advertising a program called
> Country Classics, which comes on during the day, does anyone
> know of this program and are they old classic pieces that
> the Nashville Network played from Hee Haw, and other country
> programs, the show was called Country Standard Time and
> aired in 1990. Now if there was a full time Rock channel
> instead of the 6 Hip-Hop/Rap ones that are on full time, it
> would be nice for us non Rappers.....
>


I get GAC videos on Comcast Digital On-Demand Music (Bensalem), but not the GAC channel itself. I find that a little strange. My thought would be that they would have to carry the channel to be able to carry the videos?

EDIT: Ask and ye shall receive! As of 1:00 PM today (12/21) GAC is indeed on my digital at channel 147.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by dustyvinyl on 12/21/05 06:03 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> GAC has been around for several years but not in this area.

Yes--am in Boston area and had it a few years back, then they
dropped it (or moved to higher priced tier) and replaced it with
CMT.

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