Hospital Room TV Service

[spencerkarter85]

Sadly, Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, SC carries the basic Northland Cable lineup. Unforutnately, the cable company doesn't carry TV GUIDE Network, ABC Family, AMC (aka The Mad Men Network), MSNBC (lack of Liberal biased news), WGN America, CMT, and of course they carry every local TV station from GSP (except UNC-TV/PBS WUNF 33, SCETV/PBS WNTV 29, subsituted with SCETV/PBS WNEH 38 out of Greenwood, SC), and an out-of-market NBC station (WIS 10 from Columbia, SC).

 

[crainbebo]

Was in Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, WA visiting a relative. I surfed on the TV in the waiting room and this is what I got...most cable channels provided by DirecTV with the PPV ads inserted in.

2 - Weather
3 - KWPX ION
4 - KOMO ABC
5 - KING NBC
(they used to offer a 6, KONG but it's gone now)
7 - KIRO CBS
8 - Discovery
9 - KCTS PBS
10 - KZJO MNTV
11 - KSTW CW
12 - KBTC PBS
13 - KCPQ Fox
14 - JCRQSN, Joint Commission Resources Quality & Safety Network, a hospital teleconference and professional education channel.
15 - JCRQSN same thing. Probably brought in by big dish, instead of DBS
16 - Cartoon Network
17 - CNBC
18 - MSNBC
19 - some movie channel, with a blue screen between films with the title and when it will start. In house or DirecTV Cinema?
20 - KTBW TBN
21 - CNN
22 - HLN
23 - Fox News
24 - Bloomberg
25 - C-SPAN 2 (no sign of the main C-SPAN channel)
26 - FX
27 - USA
28 - TNT
29 - TBS
30 - Root Sports NW
31 - ESPN
32 - ESPN 2
33 - Food Network, hospital website says Speed (future Fox Sports 1), but it wasn't them
34 - ESPNEWS
35 - ESPN U
36 - National Geographic
37 - History (looked like crap, with lots of interference)
38 - TLC
39 - OWN (Oprah Winfrey)
40 - A&E
41 - Hospital info slideshow
45-50 were DMX music channels. 45 was smooth jazz, 46 was classical, 47 country, 48 soft rock, 49 new age and 50 was 70's hits.
51 - Hospital education channel
52 - Hospital education channel
53 - Hospital education channel
54 - Hospital education channel
55 - Hospital education channel
56 - Hospital education channel (six channels of nothing that the patients would probably watch!)

-crainbebo

 

[DToTheJ]

45-50 were DMX music channels. 45 was smooth jazz, 46 was classical, 47 country, 48 soft rock, 49 new age and 50 was 70's hits.

Ironically, none of the channels carrying the artist known as DMX.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Does O'Bama care address this?

IIRC, yes. Systems with up to 35 channels are covered under ObamaCare. Systems with more channels are allowed, but they will carry an additional tax as "Cadillac Television Systems".

Interesting. In Canada, television is always an extra cost in the hospitals, no matter how many channels are involved. I guess it's a way to make up for chronic government underfunding.

 

[azumanga]

In Canada, television is always an extra cost in the hospitals, no matter how many channels are involved. I guess it's a way to make up for chronic government underfunding.

In the US, I remember one time, up until the 1970s, that if you wanted to watch TV, you had to rent a set.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

In Canada, television is always an extra cost in the hospitals, no matter how many channels are involved. I guess it's a way to make up for chronic government underfunding.

In the US, I remember one time, up until the 1970s, that if you wanted to watch TV, you had to rent a set.

how many hospitals have pay per view?

 

[dhett]

Does O'Bama care address this?

IIRC, yes. Systems with up to 35 channels are covered under ObamaCare. Systems with more channels are allowed, but they will carry an additional tax as "Cadillac Television Systems".

Interesting. In Canada, television is always an extra cost in the hospitals, no matter how many channels are involved. I guess it's a way to make up for chronic government underfunding.

Wow - it's been 2-1/2 years since I wrote that, but, given the use of "Cadillac Television Systems", I'm pretty sure I was being facetious and sarcastic. I don't believe there's any provision for television in ObamaCare. And there's no chronic underfunding in government; only chronic overspending.

 

[DToTheJ]

How many hospitals have pay per view?

I don't think the hospital remotes are set up for that...

 

[RadioFanBoy]

A few years back, an operation called The Patient Channel (a closed-circuit DirecTV channel, available only to subscribing hospitals) somehow suckered the University run Hospital in Moreno Valley, CA to have all the waiting room TV's carry THEIR CHANNEL ONLY! Every other channel was locked out! As you can imagine, this went over like a lead balloon with both patient and staff alike. The days, both waiting and private rooms carry the local LA channels, USA, and most of the Turner Channels, TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, and TruTV, as well as a few closed-circuit DirecTV channels for Medical people teleconference use, and whatever else programming DTV brokers out on said channels (saw some Church service once)

 

[vchimpanzee]

Speaker for the TV sound was on the nurse-call wired remote. One button controlled on, channel up and off. No direct channel entry or going down a channel, you had to channel up to 78, then off, then on, then to the channel you wanted.

Yeah, that's how it is at the hospital in the county where I live. To turn it off, you have to turn it to every channel until you get to the last channel. And channel 6 didn't work, in the case of someone I know. They finally came in to fix it on the day the person checked out.

 

[skippercollector]

I work at a hospital in Indiana. This is the chart the hospital created, which I scanned. No, I don't agree with all of the categorizations, and I said so, but it was what administration wanted. The cable is through Comcast.
http://twitpic.com/cgnee6
I hope the link works. If not, you can try copying and pasting.

 

[EddieTheRapFan]

At least the lineup is decent.
I live in Argentina, and I constantly go to the Police Hospital of Buenos Aires. In fact, I stayed many times during a few days as a patient. All the TVs of the building are either Philips 20 inches or JVC 14 inches sets with analogue Cablevision cable, around 65 channels. However, you have no remote, so if you want to change the channel you have to get up from bed, which is really cumbersome for most people staying there.

 

[vchimpanzee]

At least the lineup is decent.
I live in Argentina, and I constantly go to the Police Hospital of Buenos Aires. In fact, I stayed many times during a few days as a patient. All the TVs of the building are either Philips 20 inches or JVC 14 inches sets with analogue Cablevision cable, around 65 channels. However, you have no remote, so if you want to change the channel you have to get up from bed, which is really cumbersome for most people staying there.

Some people CAN'T get up.

 

[JustinT]

I guess 26 channels is enough for when you're in the hospital.

I disagree! Assuming that you're well enough to watch TV, you're most likely stuck in bed and not doing anything else BUT watching TV!

I've had some long stays in the past (1-2 months); most hospitals nowadays have WiFi, but a few years ago this wasn't the case. Some of the nation's best hospitals have been the slowest to improve small patient comfort items such as these.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

I disagree! Assuming that you're well enough to watch TV, you're most likely stuck in bed and not doing anything else BUT watching TV!

Exactly. Hospitals are very boring places, especially if you're hospitalized for several days. I'm not sure that having a certain TV channel available really alleviates that, but it couldn't hurt.

 

[willdav713]

Seton Brackenridge has Time Warner and I changed it to Fox News, they had it on MSNBC. While I was waiting for the Doctor while I admitted for Shortness of Breath last summer. No remote and they had a CRT TV set 20" I'm almost 6 feet so changing the channel on the TV set wasn't a problem.

 

[sdwulfdawg]

What gets me is the tolerance for bad TV reception in even the newest of hospitals, in spite of their channel line ups.

I was in a new Holiday Inn Express in Denver, CO., and the reception of the input from the super duper LCD in a luxury suite was horrible.