Hotel Cable Lineup: Hampton Inn, Gresham, OR, best one you'll probably ever see!

[crainbebo]

So I was at the Hampton Inn Portland East, in Gresham, Oregon over Labor Day weekend. They have DirecTV, but here's the shocking part: You get the DirecTV remote, guide, and many, many channels in HD!! All on a Phillips HDTV.

2 KATU-HD (ABC)
6 KOIN-HD (CBS)
8 KGW-HD (NBC)
10 KOPB-HD (PBS)
12 KPTV-HD (FOX)
22 KPXG-HD (ION)
23 National ION feed
32 KRCW-HD (CW)
47 KUNP (UNI)
49 KPDX-HD (MNTV)
70 Jewelry Television
74, 77, 78, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88 Infomercials
95 Coin Shopping
101 Audience HD
111 Dan Patrick promo loop, then today it was a Hyundai loop.
202 CNN-HD
203 Infomercials
204 HLN
206 ESPN-HD
207 ESPNEWS-HD
208 ESPNU-HD
209 ESPN2-HD
210 ESPN Alternative
211 ESPN Alternative #2
212 NFL Network HD
213 MLB Network HD
214 MLB Alternative
215 NHL Network HD
216 NBA TV-HD
217 Tennis Channel HD
218 Golf Channel
219, 222 Infomercials
223 Coin Shopping
224 AVC (shopping)
225 Infomercials
226 Liqudation Channel
227 Paid Programs
228 Gem Shopping Network
229 HGTV-HD
231 Food Network HD
232 Cooking Channel
233 GSN
234 Infomercials
236 E! HD
237 Bravo HD
238 Reelz
239 Audience HD (same as 101)
241 Spike HD
242 USA HD
243 Infomercials
244 Syfy HD
245 TNT HD
246 truTV HD
247 TBS HD
248 FX HD
249 Comedy Central HD
250 Infomercials
251 Oxygen
252 Lifetime HD
253 LMN
254 AMC HD
255 Infomercials
257 Chiller
258 Fox Movies
259 Infomercials
260 We
262 Soap Net (it's still around on DirecTV?)
263 Rocks TV (shopping)
265 A&E HD
266 Bio. HD
268 Infomercials
269 History HD
270 Infomercials
271 H2
272 Logo
273 TV Guide
274 Ovation
276 National Geographic HD
277 Travel Channel HD
278 Discovery Channel HD
279 OWN
280 TLC HD
281 Velocity HD
282 Animal Planet HD
283 Nat Geo Wild HD
284 Science HD
285 ID
286 Destination America HD
287 Military Channel
293 BabyFirstTV (just learned it is now free, used to be $4.95 more, a la carte)
296 Cartoon Network East HD
297 Cartoon Network West
299 Nick East HD
300 Nick West
304 TV Land
306 AxsTV HD (was formerly HD Net)
308 Cloo
309 Infomercials (GSN used to be here years ago)
311 ABC Family HD
313 Jewelry TV
314, 315, 318, 319, 322 Infomercials
324 America's Auction Network
327 CMT HD
328 TV One
329 BET HD
331 MTV HD
333 MTV2
334 Audience HD
335 VH1 HD
337 VH1 Classic
338 GMC
339 fuse
344 SonLife (Jimmy Swaggart's network)
345 RFD TV
346 NASA TV
347 ION National Feed
348 Free Speech TV
350 C-SPAN
351 C-SPAN 2
353 Bloomberg
355 CNBC HD
356 MSNBC HD
358 Current
359 Fox Business HD
360 Fox News HD
361 Infomercials
362 Weather Channel HD (national)
363 Golden Eagle Broadcasting
364 INSP
365 God TV
366 Jewish Life TV
367 World Harvest Television
368 Hope Channel
369 Daystar
370 EWTN
372 TBN (national, did not offer KNMT/24 on lineup)
373 Word Network
374 BYU TV
375 Link TV
376 CTN
377 TCT
378 NRB Network
401 Spanish Infomercials
432 ESPN Deportes
440 V-Me
447 Once TV Mexico
448 TBN Enlance USA
449 HITN
500 Audience HD
501 HBO East HD
502 HBO2 East HD
503 HBO Signature HD
504 HBO West HD
505 HBO2 West HD
506 HBO Comedy HD
507 HBO Family HD
508 HBO Family West
509 HBO Zone HD
511 HBO Latino HD
559 IFC
603 NBC Sports HD
604 Pursuit Channel
605 Sportsman Channel
607 Speed HD
610 Big Ten HD
613 CBS Sports HD
614 ESPN Classic
618 Fuel HD
Also got the US Open channels in the low 700s today.

-crainbebo

 

[ssetta]

Wow, I have never seen that before. A hotel with an (almost) full satellite lineup.

 

[justpassingthough]

This isn't a ringing endorsement for the Portland Tourism Bureau- come to Portland and watch all the tv you'd watch at home!!

 

[fybush]

I stayed at a Comfort Suites (I think that's what it was) in Santa Fe, N.M. last year that had DirecTV receivers in each room, with the full HD lineup including, of course, all the Albuquerque locals, even KENW 3 from Portales, which isn't otherwise available in ABQ/Santa Fe.

 

[crainbebo]

When I was in Portland last time, it was the Comfort Inn near PDX Airport, which carried only around 30 channels in stretch-o-vision on an HDTV. That place didn't even carry KOPB, no History (just a DirecTV slide with instrumental music) nor the MAIN ESPN CHANNEL!! But it did offer ESPN U. If you have to watch college football on ESPN-U, this is the place for you!

I was surprised when I saw a DirecTV remote near the TV. I knew something was up.

-crainbebo

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Along those lines, I wonder if there are any hotels/motels in communities whose cable systems have already gone all-digital who still carries the local cable lineup--but has made the effort to install DTAs in each room rather than go the LodgeNet or satellite route.

 

[blizzard59]

Along those lines, I wonder if there are any hotels/motels in communities whose cable systems have already gone all-digital who still carries the local cable lineup--but has made the effort to install DTAs in each room rather than go the LodgeNet or satellite route.

Last year, I stayed at the Super 8 in, ironically enough, Gresham, OR, and my room had a DTA box carrying the local Comcast cable lineup. I'm not sure if the box was the same as home customers would get, though, as there was no EPG. The only way to move through the channels was to press "channel up/down" and when the box changed channels, there was nothing displayed on screen other than the channel title.

 

[kenglish]

There is a commercial arm of DirecTV that is pushing that type of system.
We subscribe to a "Business Package" here at KSL, primarily for Sports highlights, but also for monitoring news networks. Multiple receivers and a fixed rate for "up to" so many boxes.

 

[Joe The Dragon]

the directv residential experience

Did it have the BIG ten alt channels??

in market RSN channels?

 

[crainbebo]

The RSNs were not carried on this system. You would expect Root Sports NW on 687, but not so much...

-crainbebo

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

There is a commercial arm of DirecTV that is pushing that type of system.
We subscribe to a "Business Package" here at KSL, primarily for Sports highlights, but also for monitoring news networks. Multiple receivers and a fixed rate for "up to" so many boxes.

I wish Comcast, and other cable systems, offered a "Business Class" cable package (as Comcast already does for internet). For Comcast, it would be the local Digital Economy lineup plus all news, business, and educational channels, and some sports networks (most likely the local RSNs and your regional college conference network e.g. Big Ten Network, and maybe the "Big 4" ESPN networks that frequently grace hotel LodgeNet systems). I have Digital Economy, but if such a package was ever devised I would personally upgrade to that one in a jiffy.