Grex Arts Conference Item 39

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The New Cable Channels

Aug 19 15:48 UTC 1992

Here's the Scoop from the Columbia Cable planning commision yesterday:
 
The 8 new channels to be added around the middle of September are:

1)  Sci-Fi
2)  Learning Channel
3)  Sports Channel America
4)  Comedy Central (yay!)
5)  VH-1
6)  Cartoon Network
7)  Travel Channel
8)  Country Music TV

Also, apart from 2, 4, and 7, almost all the existing channels will be
moved to other places on the "dial".

26 responses total.

hawkeye

response 1 of 26:

Aug 19 15:49 UTC 1992

While I was surprised that the Travel Channel made this list and something
like E! and/or Court TV didn't, I am overjoyed that my top three choices
made the list (Sci-Fi, Cartoon, and Comedy Central).

(and I'm linking this to Arts...)

keats

response 2 of 26:

Aug 19 16:16 UTC 1992

hawkeye and i have !chatted and decided to move this item over to arts 
exclusively. please forgive the confusion.

aa8ij

response 3 of 26:

Aug 19 18:25 UTC 1992

 thank you for not linking this over.

response 4 of 26:

Aug 19 21:06 UTC 1992

We have Comedy Central now on Continental Cablevision.  I'm enjoying
their coverage of the Republican convention ("inDecision '92").
The host is Al Franken, and they have the likes of Calvin Trillin
and Penn Jillett (sp?) on the convention floor and Roy Blount on
remote hookups.  My favorite line so far is from Penn:  "Barbara
Bush is right underneath us and as soon as she starts to walk out
to the stage I'll try to shout one question down to her...or maybe
I'll just hang a lunger on her."

robh

response 5 of 26:

Aug 20 02:42 UTC 1992

I voted for SciFi and the Cartoon Network.  Good to see that my vote
counted.  >8)

gunge

response 6 of 26:

Aug 20 13:58 UTC 1992

A vote ALWAYS counts in a fair election, regardless of the final outcome.

aa8ij

response 7 of 26:

Aug 20 18:17 UTC 1992

  s,peaking from experience, yes this is entirely true!.

robh

response 8 of 26:

Aug 21 02:23 UTC 1992

Yes, but when you've been voting Libertarian as long as I have, it
surprises you to see the ones you vote for win.  >8)

aa8ij

response 9 of 26:

Aug 21 06:04 UTC 1992

  Let's not turn this into a political discussion, This is Arts for
pete's sake.

<aa8ij finally f-w's>

gunge

response 10 of 26:

Aug 21 13:44 UTC 1992

Shouldn't that be: <aa8ij finally FWs>?

hawkeye

response 11 of 26:

Aug 21 14:36 UTC 1992

Yes, this is Arts for Arts' sake!
 
Do you know *anyone* who voted for the Travel Channel?  What were their
reasons?

aa8ij

response 12 of 26:

Aug 21 18:17 UTC 1992

 i believe in small letters...

popcorn

response 13 of 26:

Aug 22 03:11 UTC 1992

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arabella

response 14 of 26:

Aug 26 08:12 UTC 1992

I was kind of curious about E!, sorry not to get a chance to see
a real, live, People magazine type of channel.  Glad to get VH1 at
last, though.

headdoc

response 15 of 26:

Oct 1 00:25 UTC 1992

I'm one of those"schmoes" (but not in your office Valerie) who voted for the
travel channel and since you asked, I'll tell you why.  I travel alot and I
love to travel.  I am always interested in 1) finding new places to travel
to, and 2) seeing places I've already been.  I must admit, that so far I've
been disappointed in the quality of the programing but perhaps a few well
phrased letters to the cable company will work towards improving quality.

hawkeye

response 16 of 26:

Oct 5 15:58 UTC 1992

Writing to the Cable company won't do anything.  You would need to write
to the head of programming at the Travel Channel.  CC *might* have that
address, but I would be overly suprised if they took the time to
forward your letter.

headdoc

response 17 of 26:

Oct 10 20:15 UTC 1992

Thanks for the suggestion.  Its always better to "do" then to complain.

ecl

response 18 of 26:

Dec 13 09:45 UTC 1992

Two new channels are supposedly coming in January.
Univision the all spanish channel.
and the international news channel, with stories in the native languages.

arabella

response 19 of 26:

Dec 14 09:53 UTC 1992

I was thrilled to discover that the Cartoon Channel carries
"Top Cat," 11 A.M. weekday mornings.  I used to LOVE this show.

Comedy Central has been showing the 1980-81 season of Saturday
Night Live at 5 PM weekdays.  Amazingly bad stuff!  I never thought
anyone would see these again (this was the famous first season
after the original cast left, when the producer was Jean
Doumanian, who made some very bad decisions).  The only
cast members who returned after that year were Eddie Murphy
and Joe Piscopo.  It's fun watching the disaster.

robh

response 20 of 26:

Dec 14 22:59 UTC 1992

I remember when I stopped watching that season when it was first run.
I was all of twelve years old, not terribly discriminating, and I still
knew truly bad TV when I saw it.

Still, I do enjoy the story of Charles Rocket's last words on the
show.  >8)

arabella

response 21 of 26:

Dec 18 11:02 UTC 1992

They've moved on to the '81-82 season now, when Jean Doumanian had
been replaced by Dick Ebersol as producer.  That season had some
good moments, but the episode I saw was not full of them.  I still
miss Mary Gross sometimes, though.

ldiot

response 22 of 26:

Sep 19 21:02 UTC 1994

The cable company is going to put in the channel history so around the middle
of september the history channel will start I think. How much more will it
cost?

omni

response 23 of 26:

Jul 10 05:20 UTC 1998

  Ok, let's breathe a little life into a dead item.

  I think they almost have it right. Except I would like another movie channel
like TCM, Turner Classic Movies. I have called and called and called and
called and lobbied and lobbied and called, and still MediaOne says they have
no plans at this time to add more channels. I can do without some of the
channels they have now, but would it kill MediaOne to add one more channel?

otaking

response 24 of 26:

Dec 3 19:16 UTC 1999

I wish MediaOne would carry M2 so I could actually watch some music videos
on MTV.

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