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Mass Confusion: Bright House Channel Changes Start Today
As you may already know by now, tons of channels are changing on Bright House Networks in every one of its Tampa Bay area cable TV systems in seven counties. Pinellas County has been hit the hardest, with 42 different channel changes, including moving the government and public school channels into the high definition tier. It's all in the name of standardizing channel numbers in every market.
There's also a bunch of new high definition channels -- eight debuting tomorrow. Some, including the ESPN channels, have appeared before their scheduled start, but I'll include the information anyways.
The new HD channels in Pinellas (name/new channel number)
Discovery HD / 721 Discovery Science HD / 722 Animal Planet HD / 723
The Learning Channel HD / 724 Food Network HD/ 731 HGTV HD / 732
History HD / 734 ESPN HD / 707 ESPN2 HD / 704 National Geographic HD / 727
The channel changes (name/old channel number/new channel number) Click here to see Bright House chart on the changes.
AMC / 22 / 64 BET / 65 / 19 Bravo / 54/ 51 Cartoon / 62 / 58 City Govt. / 15 / 615
County Govt. / 18 / 622 CMT / 58 / 45 CNN / 40 / 29 C-SPAN / 99 / 15
C-SPAN2 / 50, 96 / 24 Discovery / 51 / 34 Discovery Health / 72 / 20 Disney / 68 / 40
E! / 37 / 14 EWTN / 46 / 70 Fox News / 67 / 37 Fox Sports / 69 / 39
FX / 39 / 60 Golf / 32/ 67 Hallmark / 49 / 68 Headline News / 41 / 30
History / 64 / 25 TLC / 34 / 46 Lifetime Movie / 73 / 50 Movie Plex / 66 / 62
MSNBC / 30 / 41 MTV / 44 / 66 National Geographic / 71 / 65 Oxygen / 74 / 44
Pin. Co. Schools 14 / 614 Public Access / 96 / 949 QVC / 29 / 22
SciFi / 60 / 59 Shop NBC / 24 / 98 Spike / 53/ 43 St. Pete College / 19 / 620
TCM / 59 / 53 Telemundo / 76 / 97 Travel / 43 / 54 TV Guide / 98 / 99
TV Land / 75 / 49 USA / 25 / 32 VH1 / 45 / 71 WE / 70 / 69 WGN / 20 / 18
Source: Bright House Networks
I also got this email from the good folks at Verizon:
Our channel line-up for PEGs is already "in order" and will not be changed. The link below provides you with our overall line-up. The PEG channels are available to both analog (Local Package on this list) and digital customers in the same location. The overwhelming majority of our FiOS TV customers take the digital Premier package. One, it is the foundation of our bundled offerings; and two, at $42.99 for standalone (STBs, taxes and fees are extra), it is priced very competitively to Bright House's analog and digital packages.
Click here to see their channel lineup.
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