Comcast Adds 27 HD Networks in Houston

Operator Also Adds 10 Standard Digital Networks

Kent Gibbons -- Multichannel News, 4/20/2009 6:42:11 PM

Comcast Adds 27 HD Networks in Houston

Operator Also Adds 10 Standard Digital Networks

Comcast is adding 27 high-definition networks to its roster in Houston as of April 27 and said its HD offerings would be channel grouped in the 600s.

The additions are: Speed Channel HD (Channel 601), Cartoon Network HD (Channel 622), Discovery HD (Channel 629), FX HD (Channel 631), ABC Family HD (Channel 632), Fox News Channel HD (Channel 638), Lifetime HD (Channel 640), Disney HD (Channel 641), Animal Planet HD (Channel 642), Nickelodeon HD (Channel 643), E! HD (Channel 644), Spike HD (Channel 648), AMC HD (Channel 657), Sci Fi Channel HD (Channel 660), Travel Channel HD (Channel 662), TLC HD (Channel 663), Lifetime Movie Network HD (Channel 671), Biography HD (Channel 672), Fox Business News HD (Channel 677), Discovery Science Channel HD (Channel 678), Planet Green HD (Channel 679), Hallmark Movie Channel HD (Channel 680), NHL HD (Channel 681), Style HD (Channel 683), TV One HD (Channel 684), Encore HD (Channel 696) and Live Well HD (Channel 685).

The standard-definition additions are Reelz Channel, Hallmark Movie Channel, Universal Sports, Ovation, Gran Cine, Mexicanal, Star Plus, Sony, The Filipino Channel and GMA Pinoy.

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• Comcast service managers are idiots. There are press releases like this all over the web but I have yet to find a single service rep who knows anything about this. I've tried several calls and chats and no one knows anything...and this is just a few hours before these channels are supposed to go live. Pitiful!

  
  privasee - 4/26/2009 9:35:47 PM EDT

• Any idea when Comcast may make these channels available in other markets?

  
  Ben Connor - 4/21/2009 12:59:51 PM EDT
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