Hotel Cable Report - Portland, ME (11/26/2010)

[KML0224]

I recently stayed at the Clarion Hotel in Portland, ME (11/26/2010). While the cable had the dreaded LodgeNet remote, the cable lineup actually looked good, so I'm guessing it was the actual Time-Warner Cable lineup for Portland.

0- Information
1- Interactive TV3
2- HBO
3- Hotel Information
4- NECN (New England Cable News)
5- Public Access
6- WCSH-TV (NBC) channel 6 Portland
7- WPFO-TV (FOX) channel 23 Waterville
8- WMTW-TV (ABC) channel 8 Poland Spring
9- ION? [I'm not sure here]
10- WCBB-TV (PBS) channel 10 Augusta
11- WENH-TV (PBS) channel 11 Durham, NH
12- WPXT-TV (CW) channel 51 Portland
13- WGME-TV (CBS) channel 13 Portland
15- QVC
16- C-Span
17- WPME-TV (MY) channel 35 Lewiston
18- EWTN
19- Jewelry TV
21- Discovery Health
22- TV Guide Channel
23- C-Span 2
24- Discovery Channel
25- ABC Family
26- USA
27- NESN (New England Sports Network)
28- Fox Sports Net-New England
29- Golf Channel
30- ESPN
31- ESPN 2
32- We
34- Disney Channel
35- Cartoon Network
36- Nickelodeon
37- MSNBC
38- CNN
39- HLN
40- CNBC
41- Fox News Channel
43- TNT
44- Lifetime
45- Lifetime Movie Network
46- TLC
47- AMC
48- HGTV
49- Travel Channel
50- A&E
51- Food Network
52- Bravo
54- National Geographic
55- Hallmark Channel
56- Syfy
57- Animal Planet
58- History Channel
59- The Weather Channel [Local Portland Maps/Radar/Temps]
60- Spike TV
61- Comedy Central
62- FX
64- E!
65- Versus
66- Amos (?)
67- TV Land
68- TBS
69- VH1
70- MTV

 

[Andy Taylor]

9 is TWC TV some localized stuff & infomercials.
ION is on 14

 

[radiolives]

You said FOX Sports Net New England

Its Comcast Sports Net New England, they changed the name back in 2008

 

[KML0224]

Oops! You're so right! I forgot that Comcast wants to take over the world. I only have limited basic cable here with, yes...Comcast. Ugh!

 

[radiolives]

I forgot that Comcast wants to take over the world.

maybe they do

It was a good move that Comcast took over FSN New England. Not a fan of FSN. Since it became CSN New England the network looks better.

 

[KML0224]

We get the channel here (central Connecticut), but it's part of a digital cable package which I can't afford. That, plus I'm not a Celtics fan anyway, so no big loss. As for the lineup itself, you could see that it was the regular Time-Warner Cable lineup. Except for the placement of HBO on channel 2, the giveaway that this wasn't Dish Network was when I saw NECN. They've run ads in the past that they're not distributed on satellite. (I do still get NECN, with my QAM tuner placing it on channel 88-1.)

As a separate question: Is WMEA-TV channel 26 of Biddeford still on the air? The programming of theirs and WCBB-TV were different when I lived in Maine. These days, I would imagine that if it is, the station would just fill coverage holes in York County where WCBB's from Litchfield, ME wouldn't reach.

 

[Mainedude2007]

As a separate question: Is WMEA-TV channel 26 of Biddeford still on the air? The programming of theirs and WCBB-TV were different when I lived in Maine. These days, I would imagine that if it is, the station would just fill coverage holes in York County where WCBB's from Litchfield, ME wouldn't reach.

It's the same network, back in the early to mid 90s ('92 or '93 or so) the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin group (channel 10 Augusta) and Maine Public Broadcasting (Channel 26, Channel 12 in Bangor, etc.) merged to form one statewide network.