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I went looking myself HDOrlando and found info for Indianapolis and they are getting the channels on July 1st as well. But no mention of MTV Hits or MTV Jams did Bakersfield get a notice about them being added?

NOTICE TO BRIGHT HOUSE NETWORK CUSTOMERS This notice is to inform our Bright House Networks customers of upcoming changes to their cable programming lineup. From time to time our agreements with cable channels and television stations come up for renewal. While we do not anticipate any loss or disruption of service, regulations require us to notify you of the possibility of losing programming. Therefore, please be advised that our agreements with BBC America, Cooking Channel, Country Music Television (CMT), Current TV, DIY, Encore, Encore Action, Encore Drama, Encore Family, Encore Family West, Encore Love, Encore Suspense, Encore West, Encore Westerns, Game Show Network (GSN), Great American County (GAC), MC (channels 925-970), NHL Center Ice, NHL Network, Starz, Starz Cinema, Starz Edge, Starz in Black, Starz Kids & Family and Youtoo remain in effect on a month-to-month basis, but we may have to cease carriage in all formats if our authority to continue is withheld. As well, our agreements with Gol TV expires on June 18, 2012 and with Food Network and TruTV on June 30, 2012 and we may have to cease carriage in all formats if our authority to continue is withheld. We are working diligently at this time to come to acceptable and fair terms with all of these channels. Bright House Networks utilizes a new digital video delivery technology known as Switched Digital Video (SDV). SDV is a robust bandwidth management system that makes it possible to offer more digital video programming services than before including new HD channels. To be able to offer more new video services, Bright House Networks will be moving some existing programming services to the new SDV system as well as adding new services on the SDV system. Beginning on or after July 1, 2012, the following channels will launch on the SDV system: MTV2 HD(Digital Variety) Channel 835 TV Land HD(Standard) Channel 722 Beginning on or after July 1, 2012, the following channels will move within the SDV system: HBO2 (Premium Channel) moves to channel 202 HBO Signature(Premium Channel) moves to channel 200 These services will not be available on uni-directional retail devices as of the date(s) noted above. If you want to subscribe to these services, you will need a digital set-top box or tuning adaptor from Bright House Networks. Customers may continue to use their uni-directional retail device and CableCARD to receive video programming other than the programming delivered on the SDV system. Customers who also utilize a digital set-top box or tuning adaptor will be able to receive video programming delivered on the SDV system. Customers will be notified in advance of any other programming changes.

Kevin,

Where did you find this?

Bakersfield did not get those SD channels Hits and Jams) in their notice either.

So, the NFL Network is too expensive for TWC/BHN (approx $.75)? Yet, TWC wants to charge $3.95 per subscriber for their newly created LA sports networks.

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/D...Media/TWC.aspx

The Michigan notice's text is the pretty much the same as what Kevin posted regarding the month-to-month details and the info re digital adapters and CableCards on a SDV systerm. The only difference is the local details:

"Beginning on or after June 5, 2012, the following channel will launch on the SDV system:

Fuel HD (Sports Pass Tier) Channel 656

Beginning on or after July 1, 2012, the following channels will launch on the SDV system:

MTV2 HD (Digital Variety) Channel 309
TV Land HD (Standard) Channel 264"

Hope this helps.

Yeah I read that yesterday .

yes! it happens every night at our house. video speeds fall off considerably. I haven't gotten around to checking the download speeds, so I don't know if they are throttling video sites or everything is slow in general.

a co-worker has noticed the same thing at their house.

has anyone contacted bhn about this? I'd like more info before I call to complain.

yimitz,

Thanks for the info.

Did you get this from the paper or somewhere online? If so, where? Please let me know.

Thanks!

Well at least from the ones in the LA markets.

The customers in the big market pay an insane amount for those RSN's.

I hope NFL Network gets done this year.

From our local newspaper.

Awesome!

It would be great to have a BHN customer from Michigan letting us know what they are getting there.

Oh HDOrlando I got that indy stuff from the indy star newspaper website and did a classifieds search this is how I do all of the searches for changes.

my legal notice popped up on the TWC website early and it has some changes: KAZD HD to be added to basic cable HD channel 399

bold= changes

before it was listed as TBA

Nothing about MTV2 HD or TV Land HD but I am thinking they won't be on the notice until the second June notice hopefully.

I am thinking TWC is going to the Viacom channels about 2 months out from the agreement with Viacom. I don't think Indy, Bakersfield, and Michigan are going to get the HD channels on July 1st probably closer to the time they launches in your area. I think it was just a heads up that the channels will be added in july and that they needed to get it out so they could do a 30 day notice as if they waited until june 30th they could not give 30 day notice to add them in July. Besides are they really going to add channels on a sunday? as July 1st is a sunday.

Kevin,

That's interesting.

I have never been able to find BHN Legal Notices in the Orlando Sentinel but good to know they can be found in the Indy Star.

I do not believe there has been a TWC notice with them yet but they might get them in July too as they announce stuff when the launch date is closer.

On the July 1, I definitely agree as Bakersfield was supposed to get Disney JR Hd before the launch which obviously was not going to happen. Sunday additions are rare. I recall we got Chiller a few years ago on Sunday but do not think those additions happen July 1.

BTW: Bakersfield added Fuel TV HD today so there should be no delay in it being added next Wednesday along with NASA TV HD.

Can you please add beIN Sport to the want list? This sports channel will debut in August is being launched by Al Jazeera as their first foray into the US Sports Cable TV Market. They already have won the rights from GOL TV for La Liga which was the networks most popular league and from Fox Soccer they won the rights to Serie A and the French League which all 3 start league play in August. The Qatari outfit is expected to bid on the EPL who's rights are up after this coming season which starts in August. Also they could be a player for other American sports properties in the future due to the vast wealth of the Emir of Qatar given the world's reliance on petro.

It's no wonder why BH is letting it's deal w/GOL TV expire given that GOL is losing it's biggest sporting property. GOL still has the rights to leagues like the German, Brazilian, Argentinian, and Mexican 2nd division but those leagues don't carry the same ability to draw viewers like games that involve Barcelona and Real Madrid which are 2 of most popular sports teams in the World.

I'm a huge futbol fan and the idea of not being able to tune into every game that matters being played around the world like I have been able to do for the last 3 or 4 years sucks. It could take a long time for AJ to crack the US market given how many cable deals they have to hammer out. There is some speculation that Comcast/NBC might partner up w/AJ given that AJ needs to get into as many homes and possible and Comcast delivers that. AJ in return for getting space on Comcast's cable service could give up a handful of their bigger drawing games to NBC Sports Network and/or NBC. I really hope that I don't look back years from now as the last few years past as being the golden years of soccer on TV given that it was possible to watch every big game.

Here is a story about beIn Sports from Awful Announcing: awfulannouncing. com/2012-articles/may/al-jazeera-set-to-make-impact-in-battle-for-english-premier-league-television-rights.html

Here is a pretty good forum when it comes to soccer on TV talk that includes lots of posts about Al Jazeera entering the US: bigsoccer. com/community/forums/tv-satellite-radio.688

I'm not a spammer and this is my first post to the board so I wasn't able to post the links the proper way. Please add the www. and back space the com to the . so you can check out the links posted above.



Off the futbol topic I'm really happy that Brighthouse is adding Fuel in HD. I'm also a big MMA fan and Fuel broadcasts a ton of UFC programming. One of the best shows they do is the post UFC PPV wrap up show where people who didn't order the PPV can see the highlights of what happened on the card along with post fight interviews/analysis. I really wish that TWC/BH could get the NFL Network. I would be okay with having to pay a couple more dollars a month for the Sports Package that I already subscribe to so I could get the NFL Network and more of the regional sports networks from around the country. On NFL Sunday's only the Lions who are my team I pull for would take priority viewing over the Red Zone Channel.

Lots of talk about the new guide being released very soon over in the navigator thread. Have any of you folks heard anything?

I don't think that Gol TV is going to be dropped a lot of contracts go down to the wire.

Can you please provide me a link to channel information?

I'll put it on the rumored to be launching soon list.

A lot of channels with expiring agreements go on month to month deals and stay on there for a few years. GOL TV is not going anywhere.

I think NFL Network is a real possibility in late August or September.We will see if it happens.

Here is the story by Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News announcing the launch of beIN Sport from 5/17: http://www.multichannel.com/article/...his_August.php



Al Jazeera to Kick Off Pair of Soccer Channels in U.S. this August
With Rights From Top Spanish, Italian and French Leagues, beIn Sports Eyes Distribution Pacts
Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 5/17/2012 3:58:19 PM

There will be a new pair of soccer networks kicking it around for Stateside distribution and viewers this summer.
Available in both English and Spanish, beIn Sport is part of the multiplatform sports services launching across Europe and the Middle East by Al Jazeera Sports this summer.

The services, eyeing an August 1 launch, will present a host of top-flight international soccer fare, including Spain's top circuit La Liga, France's premier division, La Ligue Un (English-only), Italy's Serie A, the Copa America tournament, and South American World Cup qualifiers ahead of FIFA's 2014 tournament in Brazil.
beIn Sport has contracted with Miami-headquartered Imagina US to handle distribution and provide technical support in this country.
All told, the services are slated to present more than 1300 live soccer matches annually via linear and online platforms to authenticated viewers.
"We are very proud to bring to the American community a new way of watching sports, a better way, where all platforms come together to provide a truly customized and totally unprecedented depth of interactive experience to the viewer," said Yousef Al Obaidli, managing director of beIN Sport in a statement. " We are working together with Imagina US as our partner, and we are already in the last stages of negotiation with different providers having secured two major deals so far that will bring the channel to subscribers homes on August 1.
In an interview, Antonio Briceño, vice president of affiliate sales for Imagina US, said: "We don't expect to have 100% distribution at launch, but we will reach enough homes at launch to satisfy the business plan." He expects beIN Sport to gain further distribution over time.
Although he would not identify the providers that beIn Sport was in advanced carriage talks, Briceño insisted that the matches would be available to U.S. soccer fans this upcoming season. "You may have to switch providers," he noted.
The rights the networks have secured come from a trio of U.S. soccer proponents. La Liga and Spain's flanking Copa del Rey tournament have been televised by GolTV, since 2003; the quadrennial Copa America tournament, the South American equivalent of the Euro championship, was televised by Univision during its most recent iteration in 2011; and Fox Soccer and primarily premium service Fox Soccer Plus have been the domestic home to France's La Ligue Un, while those services and Fox Deportes have aired Serie A action.
At presstime, officials at Gol TV, Univision and Fox Soccer, who were in Munich for Saturday's UEFA Champions League final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich, were all unavailable for comment.
Although beIn Sport won't officially launch until August, the service will begin providing feeds in June, showcasing the South American World Cup qualifiers. Briceño said Imagina US was nearing deals for residential pay-per-view distributions for the matches scheduled on June 2 and June 9.
Briceño deferred questions about why the matches were not being incorporated as part of programming on Al Jazeera English, or whether beIn Sports will participate in the rights auction for England's Barclays Premiere League, which is expected to take place late this summer or in the fall, to Al Obaidli, who was not available at presstime. Al Jazeera English only has managed to gain limited distribution in the U.S.
As of right now, Briceño said beIn Sport has no plans to sublicense the rights it has obtained in the U.S. whatsoever. Under GolTV's expiring La Liga contract, it sublicensed some match rights to ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and broadband service ESPN3.com. Through a pact with Fox Sports International, Fox Soccer holds the rights to BPL through the end of the 2012-13 season, with some of those matches sublicensed to ESPN2.

In France on June 1, beIn Sport will launch a pair of channels, fueled by rights to La Ligue Un, next month's Euro championship and the Champions League.

I hope that you're right that GOLTV and TWC/BH can come to a deal. I wonder if GOLTV's subscriber fee is going to go down since they lost the their biggest biggest property in La Liga which featured Real Madrid and Barcelona which are 2 of the most popular sports teams in the world. GOLTV also lost the Europa League rights to games to Fox Soccer starting in August.

GOLTV's lead commentary team in Phil Schoen and Ray Hudson look to be heading across town in Miami to work in the old GOLTV studio for Al Jazeeara. Phil Schoen already announced that he left GOLTV a couple of weeks ago and SI's lead soccer writer Grant Wahl tweeted earlier this week that Ray is expected to join Phil at the new upstart. Phil Schoen in my opinion is the best American soccer play by play guy out there and his partner Ray Hudson over the past year or two has gotten pretty popular w/the American Sports Blogosphere because of his over the top commentary.

I haven't seen anything on this forum about new guide software. What's the story? Sounds like it would be a big update.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0&goto=newpost

Cpt_K,

I added it to "Rumored to Be Launching".

This is kinda HD related.

Our CBS Affiliate WKMG Local 6 has finally started broadcasting their local news in HD.

I flipped over for a quick peak to confirm as I never watch the local stuff outside of 13.

While I'll never watch, it is the end of a black eye locally to us here.

Now, we just need Telemundo to go OTA HD here to be all caught up locally HD wise.

The legal notices for TWC are going to becoming each day this week for all the systems due to the way the 1st of the month fell this month.

Today's legal notices had:

WGN America is going to be dropped in select texas systems:
Austin SD only no HD version available
Corpus Christi SD only no HD version available
Wichita Falls SD and HD
other areas will probably lose it as well that have it in SD except for North Texas, Greenville, and San Antonio which did not get a notice about the channel being removed. So I am still going to have the channel still.

KDF TV Corpus Christi is now a digital only channel since TWC restored it.

TWC North Texas and Greenville are getting KAZD HD on channel 399

Oceanic TWC is getting:
HUB HD, Bloomberg HD, HBO Signature HD, Showtime Showcase HD and MoreMax HD.

Negative... it won't be for a while.. sorry

Sounds good on the notices.

BHN Bakersfield does not have WGN America at all. Even though WGN is not on the month to months, a new deal is probably going to be needed here soon.

Please keep us posted on those notices Kevin.

Bummer. A New York poster in the Navigator thread said they're getting it Tues. night.
On the other hand,it might be best for us to let them get it first.
Any idea why IFCHD is on both 1363 and 1384?

It's 5 AM and AVSForum is back up.

It looks like BHN's new HD Channels are up a little bit earlier in the day (They had been popping up around 9-10 AM or so) than we have seen lately.

Fuel TV HD Channel 1136
NASA HD Channel 1230

This now puts us at 199 HD Channels.

TWC Notices for June 5th and 6th 2012

Tuesday Notices:

Socal is getting ESPN Deportes HD soon except in areas that do not have SDV which have also not gotten MLB Strike Zone HD.

Wednesday Notices:

NYC is getting:

on or after june 30th:
Aspire TV SD and HD (magic johnson's new channel)

on or after july 8th:
Star India Plus
Star India One
Star India Gold
Star India News

Carolinas:

on or after july 31st:
MTV2 HD
TV Land HD
MTV Hits (systems that don't already carry the channel)
MTV Jams (all carolina systems)

I feel bad for those systems. It keeps them behind.

Aspire TV is a new one for TWC and I've updated the list to include it.

While it could be a possibility in the 3rd quarter for BHN, I think it becomes a more stronger one for the 4th quarter especially if a Starz deal is not done.

Nice to see TV Land HD and MTV2 HD get announced for TWC. I figured it would be a little later since they announce stuff closer to launch date as BHN Orlando announces most stuff over a month in advance.

Please keep the updates coming Kevin. Thanks!

The LA systems without MLB Strike Zone HD are not that bad off! they are 750MHz systems with all of the expanded basic channels digital only. They only have about 31 or analogs in those systems with the highest QAM carrier at 118 759MHz so they are not hurting they have these HD channels:

Compton 750MHz TWC LA system with no expanded basic analogs and no SDV channels:
392 ESPN Goal Line/Buzzer Beater
394 Fox Soccer Channel HD
395 FOX Soccer Plus HD
396 GOL TV
397 Galavision HD
398 HBO Latino HD (West)
399 KFTR HD (Telefutura)
400 KMEX HD (Univision)
401 KVEA Telemundo
402 KCBS HD (CBS)
404 KNBC HD (NBC)
405 KTLA HD (CW)
406 KDOC HD (ind)
407 KABC HD (ABC)
408 KOCE HD (PBS)
409 KCAL HD (Ind)
410 KPXN HD (ION)
411 KTTV HD (FOX)
412 KCET HD (IND)
413 KCOP HD (myNetworkTV)
414 Palladia HD
415 TNT HD
416 Velocity
417 TBS in HD
418 Discovery Channel HD
419 Universal HD
420 Smithsonian Channel HD
421 Crime & Investigation Network HD
422 MGM HD
423 The Golf Channel HD
424 ESPN HD
425 ESPN2 HD
426 ESPNews HD
427 HBO HD
428 Showtime HD
429 Starz HD
430 Cinemax HD
432 CNN HD
433 HGTV HD
434 Food Network HD
435 Disney Channel HD
436 ABC Family HD
437 TLC HD
438 A&E HD
439 History HD
440 National Geographic HD
441 USA HD
442 Bravo HD
443 Sci Fi HD
444 CNBC HD+
445 KABC DT2 Live Well HD
446 MSNBC HD
447 HLN HD
448 BBC America HD
449 Investigation Discovery HD
450 Lifetime HD
451 Animal Planet HD
452 Travel Channel HD
453 Destination America HD
454 The Weather Channel HD
455 H2 HD
456 FX HD
457 BIO HD
458 WGN America HD
459 Nick HD
460 Science HD
461 Toon Disney HD
462 Cartoon Network HD
463 FOX Sports West HD
464 PRIME TICKET HD
465 Fox News HD
466 Fox Business Network HD
467 ESPNU HD
468 SPEED HD
469 NBC Sports Network HD
470 MLB Network HD
471 NHL Network HD
472 NBA TV HD
473 The Tennis Channel HD
474 CBS Sports Network HD
475 LMN HD
476 Hallmark Movie Channel HD
477 Hallmark Channel HD
478 TCM HD
479 AMC HD
480 Independent Film Channel
481 HBO HD (East)
482 Cinemax HD (East)
483 Showtime HD (East)
484 The Movie Channel HD
485 Starz HD (East)
486 We TV HD
487 E! HD
488 Style HD
489 HSN HD
490 QVC HD
491 VH1 HD
492 CMT HD
493 MTV HD
494 Fuse HD
495 G4 HD
496 Spike HD
497 Comedy Central HD
498 TV One HD
499 Outdoor Channel HD
500 BET HD
700 3DTV Special Events
705 ESPN 3D
731 TEAM HD
732 GAME HD
733 GAME2 HD
797 HDPPV

I believe they will probably get more HD channels when the limited basic channels are dropped from analog or SDV is activated which has yet to happen.

I am going to assume these will be the missing channels soon in the 750MHz LA areas:
MLB Strike Zone HD
ESPN Deportes HD
MTV2 HD (once it is announced)
TV Land HD (once it is announced)