They actually started last week because they were waiting for Cardinal George to get better.
From the people who I have talked about it have been favorably impressed with the programming so far. The show The Catholic Guy with Lino Rulli is pretty good.
I was interviewed last week on his show and since then he has also interviewed many other notable Catholic bloggers.
I pretty much stick with EWTN, but it looks like The Catholic Channel won't totally suck, something that had initially guess would happen.
That's good, because I had the same fear. There's room for a loose Catholic talk show format. Hopefully TCC will be a nice complement to EWTN.