Time Warner Rolling Out More HD Channels

Time Warner Cable customers in the area recently got a notice that more lesser-viewed channels will be shifted over to the sluggish SDV tuning method. This move opens up bandwidth to add more channels, however, and they will be rolled out over the next month.

On 10/20:

• Wize Buys (376) will be replaced by Liquidation
• Art & Coin Network Channel 377 will be replaced by Black Shopping Channel
• Cornerstone TV Channel 380 will be replaced by Shop Zeal 3

To be added 11/4:

• WEPX HD (1155)
• Comedy Central HD (1304)
• Hallmark Channel HD (1218)
• MTV HD (1450)
• Nickelodeon HD (1205)
• Spike TV HD (1310)
• Nat Geo Wild HD (1254)
• DIY HD (1356)
• NHL Network HD (1526)
• Showtime On Demand HD (1762)

On 11/10:

• Primetime HD On Demand Channel 1195 will be available as a Free On Demand service.  Also, on this date, programming from CBS and NBC will move from HD Showcase On Demand to Primetime HD On Demand.

To Be Added 11/23:

• HSN HD (1371)
• QVC HD (1370)
• BET HD (1308)
• VH1 HD (1454)
• The Hub HD (1211)
• Cooking Channel HD (1353)
• Disney XD HD (1202)
• Fox Soccer Plus HD (1536)
• Smithsonian On Demand HD (TBD)

Gogoraleigh’s TWC Channel Guide

Of course, Time Warner has an html channel guide as well as a printable channel guide (.pdf), but they didn’t fill my needs. Instead I created a Google Spreadsheet with the channel lineups . From this I can select channels to skip and see more per page than TWC’s. It is a powerful tool for setting up a Windows Media Center, TiVo, or Sage setup with Raleigh’s Time Warner Cable service (and believe me, bringing your own hardware to the table is essential to making Time Warner’s service enjoyable)

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7 Comments

• ct Said:
  October 17th, 2010 at 3:10 pm

  Updates: among the low-end analog channels, TWC yanked 7, 20, 55, and 63 as of September 30.

• Greg Said:
  October 18th, 2010 at 12:53 pm

  My problem with TWC is that they aren’t making use of the technology. what Direct TV Does is if a channel is available in HD, it shows the HD channel, without having to hunt for it.

  so, there is 1 ESPN, not 2.

  -Greg

• Adam Said:
  November 5th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

  Any idea if these channels are still being added? I haven’t gotten any emails from Time Warner and I don’t see the new channels as of 11/5.

• Slaughter Said:
  November 8th, 2010 at 4:50 pm

  Well here it is 11/8 and these haven’t rolled live. I know that Spike 1310 isn’t live…TWC = FAIL!!!

• Brent Said:
  November 10th, 2010 at 10:36 pm

  Uh…this never happened. And now I notice that this post didn’t actually contain a link or anything like that from Time Warner Cable about the additional channels. Where did this rumor come from?

• Michael Said:
  November 11th, 2010 at 10:35 am

  Ya, still nothing here in Apex either, would be interested in a new ETA if available.

• Dana Said:
  November 11th, 2010 at 11:55 am

  TWC posts their upcoming channel change news at:
  http://www.timewarnercable.com/East/support/policies/channelchange.html

  Back in mid-October it listed all of this information I posted. Since then, however, the page has changed. I just got word from a TWC exec who said that they scaled back on the 11/4 rollout, and will get these channels on at a later date.

  “This is what we added…
  WRPX HD
  Hallmark Channel HD
  SportSouth HD
  NHL Network HD
  Showtime On Demand HD

  We added Primtetime HD on Demand yesterday. We have another batch coming on 11/23. Also, we launched Remote DVR and Look Back last week. Hope you’ve had a chance to give them a try.”
  [end]

  Of course you all know where this Remote DVR stuff is headed…(server-side storage and no more miserable DVR hardware on our end)

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