You can type in your address now and get the channel lineup for Houston: http://www.comcast.com/customers/clu/channelLineup.ashx Will the change hit at midnight tonight I wonder?
Comcast HD lineup shows the following on their website. Doesnt it look like some channels are missing, like ESPN HD?
ever since all this stuff happened my internet has been slower, it goes on and off a lot, was even down for 3 days straight last week. Unfortunatley we have their "internet phone" too and that barely works half the time too.
No, the channel should still show up...even if it's just a message asking if I want to subscribe. Ch 113 doesn't even exist on my lineup right now.
does ESPN2 HD? They might not update all the areas at the exact same time... just like when the cable goes out in one area, it doesn't go out everywhere.
I thought we already had the gay channel. Isn't that what Bravo is for? http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4900072.html New channel will offer gay content Comcast adds Logo to lineup in an effort to reach wider audience By MIKE McDANIEL Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle The June 19 launch of Comcast in Houston is a gradual process, company officials say. If things go as planned, the launch will have started at midnight and distribution of channels will occur throughout the day. "With so many customers, it won't happen all at once," said company spokesman Ray Purser. Comcast is the biggest distributor of pay TV in Houston, with about 790,000 subscribers. With the launch of Comcast in Houston June 19, one underserved segment of the local community will finally find a TV home: gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders. Channels with gay content have come and gone here, but none have the cachet and financial support that Logo does. A sister to such other Viacom networks as MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon, the channel offers advertiser-supported programming aimed at a gay audience. "We aim specifically for 25- to 49-year-olds, but our goal is to appeal across the whole spectrum of age, from 18 to 50-plus," said Lisa Sherman, Logo general manager and senior vice president. By coincidence, the launch of Logo comes during the height of local gay-pride activities that culminate Saturday with the annual Pride Parade. Houstonian Kimberly Caldwell, a former American Idol contestant, will be on hand to crown the festival's first "Pride Idol." The launch also coincides with a special programming initiative on Turner Classic Movies, which on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout June has been showing films with gay themes and/or characters, some more obvious than others. Getting a gay-themed network on cable TV here has been a trying experience. Time Warner offered — and Comcast will continue to offer — the gay channel Here!, but it is available only on the cable company's video-on-demand channel. A short-lived, extra-cost channel, Q Television Network, was briefly available on Time Warner, but that company went belly up. Houston, it turns out, was the nation's only Top 25 market not carrying Logo on cable. (The channel has been available on the satellite carrier DirecTV and is being offered on Internet-based AT&T.) The significance of Logo landing in Houston? "Gay people live in 99.9 percent of the counties in this country," said Sherman. "Our goal is to get our programming to them wherever they are. Houston is a terrific market for it. "Our overall vision statement, if you will, is to see yourself, be yourself, free yourself. The notion is that if you can see yourself on television, it allows you to be more who you are, and in being who you are, you are freer as a person. What allows us to claim that as a vision is that we are completely focused on providing content that is by, for and about our audience." Behind that goal is money. Logo is financially healthy, Sherman said. "We're very excited about the support we've gotten from advertisers very early on," she said. "We launched two years ago with three advertisers, and now we have over 100. What's most exciting to me is that two-thirds of the advertisers that are with us now — like Stoli, Lexus and Macy's — had never spent a dime in the gay market before Logo. We've given them an opportunity to reach an attractive demographic in a very efficient way." As for programming, Sherman said, Logo offers "10 series, a lot of documentaries, stand-up — shows that I think on a relative basis we're very proud of. It's certainly never enough, and we always want to do more." Logo recently premiered The Big Gay Sketch Show, a weekly series not afraid to make fun of gays themselves. One particularly funny sketch involved "a bear in the backyard." The network also has such shows as Noah's Arc, a drama with an African-American cast, and Curl Girls, a reality series about lesbians who love to surf. The network recently ran Transgeneration, an eight-part series (also seen on Sundance Channel) that followed four college students as they went through sexual reassignment. Next month, a comedy series called Rick & Steve will debut. The sitcom, featuring stop-motion characters, has been compared to South Park. What Logo lacks is live programming, including news and public-affairs shows. "The GLAAD awards, which we produce, is filmed live and aired about a week later," Sherman said. "That's the closest thing to live we've had so far." As for future news offerings, "We're working with CBS and CBS News, and we've done some specials with CBS," Sherman said. "And I have talked about going to a live format on a more regular basis." The channel airs movies during daytime and overnight hours. It also airs programming from other networks, including an edited version of Showtime's Queer as Folk. "The majority of our programs are edited to TV-14 standards," Sherman said. "There are a couple of shows, like Queer as Folk, that are (originally) rated TV-MA, that we edit to those standards, similar to what Comedy Central and FX do."
I don't even know what package I have. I had the regular digital cable with TW. What package does that transfer over to?
The standard digital package should have most of the channels. If you want the NFL network you have to call in and upgrade to the Sports Plus package. Its like $4 more a month. If you want HD Net and HD Net Movies you have to upgrade the the HD plus package for another $4.
