{"id":5196,"date":"2008-12-09T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:28:07","slug":"comcast-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/12\/09\/comcast-clarification\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast Clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like I’ve got my answer: our Limited Basic service shouldn’t change. Here are the relevant tweets:<\/p>\n

\n @djwudi Limited basic will be channels below 30 will not need a box. What channel number are you concerned about? #<\/a><\/p>\n

@djwudi This isn’t happening immediately; it’s where we’re eventually moving. As you said, it’s seperate from the FCC broadcast transition. #<\/a><\/p>\n

@ShaunaCausey @comcastcares You two are fast! :) I know we’ll miss 99 (CBUT), they were great during the Olympics, and we’ve kept watching. #<\/a><\/p>\n

@ShaunaCausey @comcastcares My concern: there aren’t many channels above 29 on Limited Basic, but having them go poof<\/em> isn’t “unaffected”. #<\/a><\/p>\n

@djwudi Good point. you will still get CBUT. If you are a “limited” customer, you will not lose any channels. 75-99 WILL still be there. #<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like a good end to this particular adventure to me!<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> There have been some additions to the Seattle Times article<\/a> that cover this same information. Here’s the relevant sections of their article:<\/p>\n

\n Q: What about public access channels above 29? (NEW)<\/p>\n

A: Comcast must still offer a handful of public access channels in analog format, per its franchise agreements. Tony Perez of Seattle’s cable office said that in Seattle, those channels include 75 (KCTS Plus) 76 (UW 2 TV); 77 (SCAN, the public access channel) and perhaps a few more.<\/p>\n

Q: What about Canadian public television channel 99 (CBUT)? (NEW)<\/p>\n

A: It will remain available to “limited basic” customers, spokesman Steve Kipp said in an email: “In addition to C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, the local broadcast channels and the local government and education channels, the Limited Basic lineup includes: Northwest Cable News, ION, Discovery Channel, KMYQ, KBCB, KHCV, QVC, HSN, KWDK, Hallmark Channel, KTBW, TVW, Univision, The Weather Channel and CBUT.”<\/p>\n

Kipp said the limited basic channel numbers won’t change: “As for channel locations here, they will remain the same so the Limited Basic channels that are in the 75 to 99 range would remain the same.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like I’ve got my answer: our Limited Basic service shouldn’t change. Here are the relevant tweets…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[65,8,241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}