Lost the Travel Channel
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Lost the Travel Channel
Just as they are showing actual travel programming and less poker, Time Warner has seen fit to take away the Travel Channel and replace it with Noggin or something like that. Apparently the Travel Channel is owned by Time Warner competitor COX so perhaps that figures into it. I'm not pleased.
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I have not let them know how I feel. Maybe, maybe not. I am sure they knew exactly what they were doing by attempting to put a knife in their competition. I'm not a fan of dish but haven't ever had it. I've just heard how the weather this and the weather that and so on and so on. And I want cable Internet as my experience with DSL is not all that impressive.
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The difference between satellite & cable?
In short the former utilizes, no kidding, a satellite in space to beam TV signals to your house. The latter requires a, guess what, cable, that runs either above or below ground from the street to your house.
In the US there are 2 primary satellite TV companies, DirecTV and DishNetwork. One can subscribe to either, or both.
In any one geographic location there tends to be a single cable TV provider. The biggies are TimeWarner and Comcast, with numerous other regional companies likely to be gobbled up over time).
Many teleco's also offer TV service. AT&T and Verizon are both rolling out fiberoptic cable in many areas.
Both satellite and cable offer similar (but not exact) programming options, package bundles, pricing etc.
Whether one is better than the other is always open to debate.
In short the former utilizes, no kidding, a satellite in space to beam TV signals to your house. The latter requires a, guess what, cable, that runs either above or below ground from the street to your house.
In the US there are 2 primary satellite TV companies, DirecTV and DishNetwork. One can subscribe to either, or both.
In any one geographic location there tends to be a single cable TV provider. The biggies are TimeWarner and Comcast, with numerous other regional companies likely to be gobbled up over time).
Many teleco's also offer TV service. AT&T and Verizon are both rolling out fiberoptic cable in many areas.
Both satellite and cable offer similar (but not exact) programming options, package bundles, pricing etc.
Whether one is better than the other is always open to debate.
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I got tired of constant cable outages and finally had satellite installed about 6 weeks ago. I couldn't be happier. Especially with the "TIVO" thingy! The only problem is that I'm spending too much time watching TV, and recording movies!
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Golly, Auduchamp1! Do I detect superciliousness? Or are you trolling?
I, too, have traveled extensively to the kind of pedestrian places featured on the travel channel (Paris, Florence, Rome, Istanbul etc.) I suppose watching the show makes me pedestrian, too.
If this was a troll, Auduchamp1, you got me!
I, too, have traveled extensively to the kind of pedestrian places featured on the travel channel (Paris, Florence, Rome, Istanbul etc.) I suppose watching the show makes me pedestrian, too.
If this was a troll, Auduchamp1, you got me!
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Satelite TV does provide local stations. But it does not provide the "public access" stations which are funded by the cable system which has a monopoly granted by local government.
We switched over to satelite a couple of years ago. It has much better image quality and has a half dozen free movie channels, on one of which I first saw "French Kiss," and saw it a dozen or more times later. The western and mystery channels also have some classics.
The only drawback to satelite is that when a strong storm comes in from the west it blocks the signal. This may last 10 minutes or a half hour, and happens a few times a year.
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This concerns me, as I also have Time Warner. If they remove the Travel Channel we will definitely get sattellite. We've been thinking about dumping Time Warner anyway.
St. Cirq, keep your little mitts off Tony Bourdain, he's MINE!!
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St. Cirq, keep your little mitts off Tony Bourdain, he's MINE!!
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Fox News is on satellite, but not on cable. I'm so happy to get decent news now that I don't have to rely any longer on the german stations and CNN. Thank you FOX for the unbiased info. Thanks for the O'Reilly factor, finally real news! . I missed that so much.
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Ha ha- I assume that the comment about Fox News being unbiased is a joke... right?
I certainly hope TimeWarner isn't taking away the Travel Channel everywhere... they just took away HBO from those of us in my area without digital cable boxes... nice.
I wish that the satellite dish offered better service in our area... they have special packages with Russian channels! I would love that.
I certainly hope TimeWarner isn't taking away the Travel Channel everywhere... they just took away HBO from those of us in my area without digital cable boxes... nice.
I wish that the satellite dish offered better service in our area... they have special packages with Russian channels! I would love that.
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Pedestrian? Hmmmm...I thought after 30 years of traveling abroad at least twice a year I was a fairly experience traveler, but I haven't done half the stuff that Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern and even Samantha Brown have done....I bow down to Aduchamp1, who is obviously WAY more sophisticated than I am.
And P_M, eat your heart out. My SO looks a LOT like Tony and I get to travel and eat with him in real life - yay! Not that that keeps me from tuning in to Tony every possible minute, to which SO says "what do you see in that guy?" Ummm.....you, maybe?
And P_M, eat your heart out. My SO looks a LOT like Tony and I get to travel and eat with him in real life - yay! Not that that keeps me from tuning in to Tony every possible minute, to which SO says "what do you see in that guy?" Ummm.....you, maybe?
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> joke
I want more high speed chases, the last one was boring and it wasn't even live, but delayed for a few seconds. And it wasn't high speed, but very very! low speed Somewhere in LA, how boring, we need real life action from the US over here in Europe .
I want more high speed chases, the last one was boring and it wasn't even live, but delayed for a few seconds. And it wasn't high speed, but very very! low speed Somewhere in LA, how boring, we need real life action from the US over here in Europe .