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Hotel Cable Report: Courtyard Marriott in Monroeville, PA (Pittsburgh suburb)

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It's been awhile since I've seen one of these. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen one on here since the board was switched over. So I thought I'd post one on here. This one is rather interesting, as the service is provided by Comcast.

3 - KDKA (CBS)
4 - WPCW (CW)
5 - WPGH (Fox)
6 - WPMY (MyTV)
7 - WPXI (NBC)
8 - WQED (PBS)
9 - WTAE (ABC)
10 - WPCB (Cornerstone)
11 - Ion (probably local, but I'm not sure)
12 - SyFy
13 - NFL Network
14 - NBC Sports
15 - ESPN U
16 - VH1
17 - Spike
18 - ESPN News
19 - E!
20 - AMC
21 - Comedy Central
22 - Cartoon Network
23 - Animal Planet
24 - HBO
25 - Big Ten
26 - Root Sports (never heard of this one)
27 - ESPN
28 - ESPN 2
29 - Golf
30 - Fox News
31 - CNN (for some reason, TV defaults to this channel when turned on)
32 - HLN
33 - MSNBC
34 - CNBC
35 - Weather Channel (national version)
36 - USA
37 - TNT
38 - TBS
39 - A&E
40 - HGTV
41 - Food Network
42 - Lifetime
43 - MTV
44 - TLC
45 - Disney
46 - Nickelodeon
47 - ABC Family
48 - Discovery
49 - Travel
50 - FX

And get this, all channels are in HD. It's a pretty good lineup, and I don't think it's missing any locals, except the subchannels. Though there's actually a big LCD TV in the lobby with the full Comcast lineup on it. They even leave a Comcast-branded remote.
 
Root Sports is owned by DirecTV and is a subsidiary of Fox Sports Networks. Long time ago it used to be KBL, a sports channel that also showed general entertainment programs like cartoons and sitcom reruns after WPGH went Fox. Then turned into Prime Sports, still with the KBL branding, and then Fox Sports/FSN Pittsburgh.
Over here in the NW, Root Sports Northwest is where the Mariners games are broadcasted on TV. Long time ago it used to be Prime Sports NW and then turned into Fox Sports/FSN Northwest. After April 2011, that, and the Pittsburgh channel as well as Rocky Mountain, turned into Root Sports.

-crainbebo
 
When I was in Florida this March, I stayed in two different hotels. One had their own resort lineup (missing some locals, but not any of the Big Four) while the other had mostly the default Bright House system.
 
The Pittsburgh ION affiliate is WINP-TV channel 16. The call letters mean "ION Pittsburgh". At least the lineup you posted doesn't look too bad. I had a stay this past Tuesday at a Motel 6 in Elkton, MD, about 1 mile from the Delaware border, close to I-95. The line-up was a big joke and it looked like it was being fed from Dish Network. The only broadcast stations were the big four from Baltimore and PBS, most likely channel 67 from Baltimore. (Elkton is slightly closer to Philadelphia when drawing a straight line. However, it's considered to be the edge of the Baltimore/Annapolis DMA.)
 
Some hotels don't even have PBS stations so I would think that lineup is better than some! I stayed in a hotel in Portland years ago that had no PBS, no CW, no MNTV, no Spanish channels....

-crainbebo
 
Here's what I got in Elkton, MD that night, if anybody cares:

7- ESPN
8- WBFF-TV (FOX) channel 45 Baltimore
9- HBO
10- WMAR-TV (ABC) channel 2 Baltimore
11- WBAL-TV (NBC) channel 11 Baltimore
13- WJZ-TV (CBS) channel 13 Baltimore
14- ESPN 2
15- CNN
16- HLN
17- TNT
18- TBS
21- The Weather Channel [National Feed]
22- USA
23- Discovery Channel
24- TLC
25- Cartoon Network
26- Univision [likely its national feed]
27- WMPB-TV (PBS) channel 67 Baltimore *
29- HBO Plus
30- ESPN News
31- ESPN Classic

* The screen was zoomed in slightly, so I never could see an actual "MPT" bug at all.
 
Another crappy satellite lineup. It seems as though most hotels don't care about having the full TV lineups, don't they? Exact opposite at the Hampton Inn in Gresham, OR near Portland. Had a DirecTV/DTA box and remote and I could get all the local channels, and probably close to 150 other channels, half or more in full 1080 HD!! Almost all the locals were HD as well. Compared to the last hotel in Portland I stayed at, a Comfort Inn near town with no KOPB (PBS), no KRCW (CW), no KPDX (My) and not even the main ESPN (oh, but ESPN2 and ESPN CLASSIC and ESPN *U* were carried!!), it was the best hotel cable lineup I had ever seen. Even beats out those years ago who were just hooked up to the full analog lineup with HBO or Showtime.

Which speaking of hotel cable reports, I wonder what motels carried (if they had cable) in the 1980s or early 1990s. I'm sure there was free HBO at most places even back then.

-crainbebo
 
Speaking of hotel/hospital cable lineups, West Shore Hospital in Manistee had WZZM as the ABC affiliate until Charter (which carries WGTU) extended their line out to the hospital.

The medical care facility next door had only four channels until the Charter line reached there:
WFQX Fox Cadillac (channel 4)
WPBN NBC Traverse City (channel 7)
WWTV CBS Cadillac (channel 9)
WZZM ABC Grand Rapids (channel 13)
No PBS, despite the closest TV station being a PBS member!
 
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