Hotel Cable Report - Holiday Inn Rosslyn, Arlington, VA

[KML0224]

Tonight I'm staying at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn, near the Key Bridge in Arlington, VA. I'm barely 1/2 mile into the state! Anyways, here's what I can see for their "cable". I'm not sure if it's a Comcast lineup or not.

1- WDCA-TV (MY) channel 20 Washington DC
2- WDCW-TV (CW) channel 50 Washington DC
3- WETA-TV (PBS) channel 26 Washington DC
4- WFDC-TV (UNI) channel 14 Arlington, VA
5- WHUT-TV (PBS) channel 32 Washington DC
6- WJLA-TV (ABC) channel 7 Washington DC
7- WMDO-LD (MAS) channel 47 Washington DC
8- WMPT-TV (PBS) channel 22 Annapolis, MD
9- WNVC-TV (IND) channel 24 Fairfax, VA
10- WNVT-TV (IND) channel 30 Goldvein, VA
11- WPXW-TV (ION) channel 66 Manassas, VA
12- ? [Hotel card said Azteca America?]
13- WRC-TV (NBC) channel 4 Washington DC
14- WTTG-TV (FX) channel 5 Washington DC
15- WUSA-TV (CBS) channel 9 Washington DC
16- WZDC-CD (TEL) channel 25 Washington DC
17- ? [Hotel card said CSN?]
18- MASN
19- HBO
20- A&E
21- ABC Family
22- CNBC
23- CNN
24- HLN
25- Disney Channel
26- Discovery Channel
27- ESPN
28- ESPN 2
29- Food Network
30- Fox News Channel
31- FX
32- NBC Golf Channel
33- HGTV
34- Lifetime
35- MSNBC
36- MTV
37- Nickelodeon
38- ? [Hotel card said TBS]
39- TLC
40- TNT
41- Travel Channel
42- The Weather Channel [with local conditions, likely from Reagan National Airport - DCA]
43- USA
44- Bravo
45- SyFy
46- AMC
47- NBC-SN
48- TruTV
49- BET
50- Comedy Central

The Maryland Public Television feed said "MPT.2". Was it technically WMPT-TV 22-2? MASN was airing Tampa Rays vs Baltimore Orioles baseball. I couldn't tell if the Philips TV was HD or enhanced widescreen. Quality didn't look too bad really. I think the TV is a 32" screen.

 

[tripinva]

Interesting that the channels are more or less in alphabetical order. 12 should probably have been WQAW Azteca America, making 1 through 16 alphabetical, then 20 through 43 are also alphabetical.

I was supposed to have been at that Holiday Inn last Friday for a luncheon, but wound up missing it.

- Trip

 

[KML0224]

All I know is that I didn't stay in the same room as 1989, since that was on the other side. Too bad, because the view is better there, too!

The cable in 1989 was awesome! I know they carried WWOR. The "Big 4" from Baltimore (2, 11, 13 and 45) were on the lineup then as well.

Ha! I didn't even notice the alphabetical call letters until you pointed that out! What I did notice is the cluster of Comcast/NBC-Universal channels in the 40s.

I also see that none of the broadcast channels were on their so-called legacy spots (example: channel 4 on 4, 5 on 5, etc). I highly doubt that signal ingress would be a problem these days. (We always has CBS 3 of Hartford on analog cable channel 2 for that reason.)