That is one of the FEW times we watched another channel other than Fox News!
Posted on 04/12/2002 3:40:06 PM PDT by who knows what evil?
I am really getting fed up with Comcast Cable. The people of east Tennessee have been fighting with Comcast for a couple of years to get them to add Fox News Channel to their line-up. Last year, we were "promised" that FNC would be added to the cable system in February 2001. Then we were told that "negotiations had fallen through", and that there would be NO Fox News Channel for the foreseeable future. On several subsequent occasions, staffers at our local Com(mie)cast office told me "not to hold my breath" while waiting for FNC to be added to our local line-up. Now, after several years, Fox News Channel is being added to our local cable system; effective April 19th. The problem? If you want access to FNC, you will have to pay an ADDITIONAL $9.95 per month for their "value package upgrade" because that was the "only place they could make room for FNC in their line-up". My BS detector went off. My understanding is that Comcast locations in other areas around the Southeast, including Nashville, receive FNC as part of their basic package. (In other words, on the same plateau as MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, and so forth.) I asked the office manager why we had to pay for an upgrade, when other Comcast customers didn't have to. The buck was passed on to an out-of-town Com(mie)cast contact. My question is: how is FNC handled on other cable systems around the country? Are other Freepers paying premium prices for FNC? I just don't feel one should have to pay a premium price for one news network when you don't have to for others. Feedback?
But why not DirectTV? You'll never regret switching to it!
That is one of the FEW times we watched another channel other than Fox News!
First; thank you to everybody for your feedback! I may just go with a dish just as a 'thank you' to Com(mie)cast for treating their customers like crap over the past few years. I was hoping to catch Comcast as one of the few cable systems in the country charging extra for FNC, but it looks like it is an arbitrary, "like it or lump it" decision made by individual franchises. Oh, well...if they don't want my money, I can certainly take it elsewhere.
In my son's town, Wheaton, IL, they carried on a very strenuous campaign to get AT&T Broadband to include FNC, even to the point of putting up signs all over town. They got it as of 4/1.
You've got to organize and you've got to threaten. When you drop a cable provider to go to the Dish, because you want FNC, you've got to make sure that they know why.
By the way, many of my friends use Comcast - because they have no other choice. Comcast's Internet service sucks. Limited download speeds and ever increasing costs. I believe that if I was a captive of Comcast, I'd probably go to the Dish.
Charter in STL has FNC as part of basic programming
Charter at the LOZ does not, it was formerly Falcon Cable and run on a shoestring, I bet the reason they still don't offer it as basic is because they are ass@ol#s or maybe its cause of the extra expense it would take for the moron sitting at the keyboard to type a few keys and make it so!
Yes, we have FNC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2 and the "rerun" channels - TVLand and Nick at Night. What once was free, now costs a pretty penny. Personally, I find the cost outrageous. As I recall, when cable was first introduced, the big plug was NO ADVERTISING. Now it's advertising 24/7. Infomercials round the clock + the shopping channels. Whatever happened to commercial free TV? Even PBS now has advertising.
My folks are in Mississippi and that is exactly what they are telling their Comcast cable station! They, and their friends, have been trying for years to have it included on their cable and Comcast still refuses. They are going with DirectTV.
Good luck to you!
To answer your question directly, no, we don't pay extra for FNC..............but we've also switched to satellite (Dish Network). Even before, though, when TWC added FNC to their lineup (we had their digital cable offering), there was no extra charge to receive FNC. I suggest that you look into satellite. There are outfits that will now "lease" the dish, receivers, etc. so that you don't have to come out of pocket to buy them........and the monthly cost is still less than digital cable.
That's funny- Time-Warner includes FOX in my town. I'd talk to them if I were you.
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