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Hotel Cable TV Report West Yarmouth Cape Cod

MarcB

MarcB

Last week my mom and her friend Dee had a Girls Only trip to Cape Cod. This is the channel line-up at the Cape Point Hotel in West Yarmouth. They didn't know what the cable system was and the remote just had RCA on it.

2 WGBH PBS
3 SNOW (Listed as HSN)
4 WBZ CBS
5 WCVB ABC
6 WLNE ABC
7 WHDH NBC
8 New England Cable News
10 WJAR NBC
11 WLVI CW
12 WPRI CBS
13 WFXT FOX
14 WSBK IND
15 WBPX ION
16 WGBX PBS
17 Public Access
18 Government Access
19 WWDP ShopNBC
20 WSBE PBS
22 Educational Access
24 Disney Channel
25 Nickelodeon
26 ABC Family
28 MTV
29 VH-1
30 FX
31 TBS
32 HGTV
33 TNT
34 E!
35 USA
36 Lifetime
37 A&E
38 TLC
39 Discovery
41 FOX News
42 CNN
43 HLN
44 C-SPAN
45 CNBC
47 Weather Channel
49 ESPN
50 ESPN2
51 New England Sports Network
52 Comcast Sports Net
53 Golf Channel
54 Travel Channel
55 Spike TV
57 Bravo
58 History Channel
59 AMC
60 Cartoon Network
61 Comedy Central
62 SYFY
63 Animal Planet
64 TVLAND
65 VERSUS
67 Food Network
98 Cape Cod Community College

Looks like a pretty decent line-up with the Big 3 (ABC, CBS, and NBC) from both Boston and Providence. Plus PBS from Both Boston and Providence. They said there may have been one or two others that were not as listed, but they weren't sure what they were.
 
It's Comcast. One the Cape they give you the best of both worlds, Providence and Boston stations. Only ones missing are WNAC FOX Providence and WLWC CW 28 in Providence. I like Comcast on the Cape, seeing what I am missing on Cox in Rhode Island, like the Boston network stations, and New England Cable News. I wonder how the Providence network stations are available on Comcast on the Cape, while in Rhode Island we are closer to Boston, and can't get the Boston network stations.
 
It's like the world is segregated at the border with Rhode Island. Across Bristol/Plymouth County and the Cape, (even if the latter two are in the Boston market), you get a mix of Boston and Providence stations. Even in some parts of Worcester county you get Boston and Providence stations. And I think in eastern Connecticut you get a mix of Hartford and Providence stations. But the SECOND you step into Rhode Island, it's Providence stations only.
 
I once bought the Providence Edition of TV Guide near the University of Connecticut campus. It's in the Storrs section of Mansfield, CT in Tolland County. I didn't think it would be sold that far west.
 
stayed in west yarmouth last week, the lineup is complete as shown; no ch 28 and 64 from prov. still a much better system than the charter bs we get here in central mass (no secondary ABC or CBS or Fox even though one used to get those analogs w/ a single rabbit ear and 99 cent loop.
At least one can justify cable on the cape.
 
Our family stayed at the Ocean Resort in Brewster, and the channel lineup we had was similar to that. The local stations setup was exactly the same with the same numbering, with all Boston channels mentioned and 6, 10, and 12 out of Providence.
 
progressivetalk said:
Where the hell is MSNBC??? Fox is NOT NEWS!!!
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I've heard that Comcast has moved MSNBC to digital tier in some areas. I wouldn't know, since my market is Cox or bust.
 
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