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January 2012 Channel Replacements

JeeperOne

JeeperOne

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With SoapNet & Universal Sports going away come January 1st or thereabouts will undoubtedly come the question of what will replace them. So I figured I'd start (Note I'm using the Comcast lineup since I'm a Comcast customer. Your channels will obviously be different if you're on satellite)

DENVER

184 SoapNet (Cloo will undoubtedly go here since it's the only Comcast/NBC channel currently not in the lineup)
250 Universal Sports (KTVD-DT 20.2 - I would be shocked if this didn't become Denver's home for MeTV)

Did I miss any? Add yours

Cheers & 73 :)
 
Universal Sports will likely be moved to a channel not clustered in with the rest of the multicast nets once it's removed as a multicast net nationally (I'm thinking either Channel 105 where Comcast's 24/7 INFORMERCIAL network CET is or somewhere in the 400s with the other sports channels are)

Cheers & 73 :)
 
I think your missing something RE SoapNet. It's not going away, technically, it's being relaunched as Disney Junior. So, where SOAPNet exists now, you are guaranteed to see Disney Junior.

As far as Universal Sports goes, you are getting that as a digital subchannel of a local broadcaster. That bandwidth most likely belongs to the broadcaster that is carrying this channel, so once it is no longer a digital subchannel, you will get whatever the broadcaster replaces said channel with, and they could very well simply decide to use that bandwidth to increase the quality of their main feed.
 
Also, it should be noted that even though Comcast owns Cloo, it doesn't mean that it will be carried on their cable systems. They own a large part of FearNet, and have yet to clear FearNet HD in any market they own systems in.
 
mnradiofan said:
That bandwidth most likely belongs to the broadcaster that is carrying this channel, so once it is no longer a digital subchannel, you will get whatever the broadcaster replaces said channel with,
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Not necessarily. The cable operator has to come to terms with the network that the broadcaster carries on their subchannel. For example, in the NYC market, WRNN was carrying Mega TV on one of their subchannels and this subchannel was carried by Verizon Fios. WRNN then replaced Mega TV with Al Jazeera, but on Fios we don't get the Al Jazeera programming even though it's on the same subchannel we had previously. Apparently Verizon did not come to an agreement to carry Al Jazeera.
 
I've never heard of Fearnet. Just what are we afraid of? Maybe Comcast and NBC
should work on fixing NBC instead of fishing and farming for more cable channels.
 
gregg75 said:
I've never heard of Fearnet. Just what are we afraid of? Maybe Comcast and NBC
should work on fixing NBC instead of fishing and farming for more cable channels.
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Why salvage a sinking ship when the foreseeable future is in cable channels that extract revenue from two sources? When NBC is losing out to USA in terms of ratings on some nights, I think the writing is on the wall. The old models of television are slowly dying, or at the very least, evolving. It makes more sense to back a channel that derives revenue from two streams, at this given point in time.
 
Soapnet will live until at least Spring 2012 (2Q?). Disney chose not to launch a new network in the current weak ad climate. OLTL ends in mid-January, but contracts for DOOL and Y+R run though 2012. Thus far, ABC has shockingly not dumped reruns of The View and The Chew on Soapnet, instead opting to show 2-3 episodes each of Brothers+Sisters/BH90210/OneTreeHill daily.
 
SanDiegoInExile said:
Soapnet will live until at least Spring 2012 (2Q?). Disney chose not to launch a new network in the current weak ad climate. OLTL ends in mid-January, but contracts for DOOL and Y+R run though 2012. Thus far, ABC has shockingly not dumped reruns of The View and The Chew on Soapnet, instead opting to show 2-3 episodes each of Brothers+Sisters/BH90210/OneTreeHill daily.
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I think that date was pushed up to February 2012 again, after being pushed back to spring.
 
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