clickintheremote
@centurytel.net
| reply to JTRockville
Re: How long will it take?
odd that you'd ask this today... as today in the mail was a notice from charter (onalaska, wi) about some line up changes...
it appears that our cable system here must be at capacity as they're making more "room"... two fewer analog channels (moved to extra-cost digital family tier), and the start of a 'digital lifeline' tier with local stations' subchannels (three currently, including the cw).
this second tidbit could see the cw and mntv moved off analog and to digital-only in the near future, as they are carried here as "second networks" of the cbs and abc stations via digital subchannel; and they're on analog basic cable. they're placing the cw up there now, how long until mntv is there too and they drop those analog signals? why else would they have put the cw on a different digital channel (in the 'lifeline' channel range') in addition to it's 'usual' 100 analog digital simulcast?
effective date is nov 7th.. just a month or two before thte annual price increase (and how much ya wanna bet that 'extended basic' aka analog only doesn't go DOWN?!?!)
oh, ya.. three new digital sports channels.. worthless as they are.. and no, no packers/vikings yet.
anyone else with similar reductions in analog channel availability needs to call and bitch, even if you don't actually watch the channels... two affected here (and both watched here) are WE and TOON DISNEY.
so, the answer to your question.... it appears that charter is beginning a plan to gradually migrate analog signals to digital only and FORCE their subscribers to pay for a box for every set (essentially charging 'per drop' again, and i thought that was an fcc no-no) plus extra programming fees if they want to continue receiving the same channels they've had for years (there hasn't been an analog lineup change in a LONG time, except for moving a couple channels around and squeezing in a upn slot when the local affilliate dropped the network like a bad habit in january). |
