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New Cable Lineup, Philly HD Feeds for Brick, Point Boro And Beach

Comcast will discontinue some old channels numbers, carry HD feeds of Philadelphia local stations

 

Are you an Eagles football fan? Do you get your weather forecast from Cecily Tynan on Action News or Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz of NBC 10?

If so, you'll be able to see all three in HD by the end of this week.

Comcast of Ocean County will fulfill a longtime request of many of its local customers by adding the high definition feeds of the local network television stations broadcast from Philadelphia. The addition, as well as some other changes, are set to go into effect Friday.

Comcast – and the companies which preceded it in most of Ocean County – has always offered the feeds of both New York City and Philadelphia network stations, however until now, they've carried the Philadelphia stations in standard definition only.

The largest constituency of viewers will doubtlessly be local Philadelphia Eagles fans, who have been relegated to the standard definition feed for most of the Birds' games since HD viewing quickly became mainstream over the course of the past decade.

In addition to the Philadelphia high-def feeds, Comcast will add WLNY and WLNY-HD, a Long Island station owned by CBS, to the Ocean County lineup. The Aspire channel, Jewish Life TV, Crime & Investigation, Military History Channel, ESPN Goal Line, Pac12 Network and World Fishing Network will also be added to digital and sports packages.

The company will also tweak the local lineup of high definition channels. For many years, high-def channels were carried in the high 100s and 200s, but last summer, many were duplicated in the 800s-1000s range when a slew of new channels were added to the overall lineup.

On Friday, the old lower-numbers lineup will go away. We've attached a PDF file of the new lineup to this article, but tuning in the major network HD feeds shouldn't be too hard to remember. They are:

WCBS (2, CBS) - 802
KYW (3, CBS) - 903
WNBC (4, NBC) - 804
WNYW (5, FOX) - 805
WPVI (6, ABC) - 906
WABC (7, ABC) - 807
WWOR (9, MyTV) - 809
WCAU (10, NBC) - 910
WLNY (10, Ind.) - 810
WPIX (11, CW) - 811
WPHL (17, MyTV) - 907
WTXF (29, FOX) - 905

The company said in a media release that keeping the HD lineup together, rather than dispersed in different channel ranges, will make it easier on customers. The same goes for placing network affiliate HD channels on numbers that correspond with their heritage dial placement.

Comcast's Ocean County system includes Brick, Point Pleasant Boro, Point Pleasant Beach, Bay Head and Mantoloking. Similar changes will take place in the Toms River system, which stretches from Toms River to Little Egg Harbor, the LBI system, which covers all of the communities on Long Beach Island.

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Spartacus

7:25 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

2 FIX ed News stations for double the spin. Breaking News ! Faux spins Ryan's plan to destroy Medicare for seniors.

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So Much to Say

7:40 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Comcasts new line up has something to do with Ryan????.....Can't fix stupid. Another Typical DemocRAT making noise.

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TimeForChange

2:49 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Another liberal rant because they all know that they are gone in November. "Gonna put y'all back in chains" Biden, leading the way.

JHill

9:27 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

They'll use this as an excuse the next time they increase your rates.

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Brett Middaugh

9:41 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

People still care what is on cable TV?

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Tom Cular

10:19 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Comcast sucks, with the channel array they offer, most are paid advertising or duplicates.

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Sall

10:44 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

It be nice if they ever upgraded our area, sadly we may never see multiroom DVR or being able to set/control DVR from a smart phone or tablet. For those of you who have a Scientific-Atlantic or Cisco cable box in Ocean County (because we cannot get the more functional Motorola ones til the network is upgraded) know what i mean. Pay the same amount for less service.

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TimeForChange

2:51 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

And our current RINO Acropolis, gave them a 15 year contract just last year. All previous contracts between Brick and Comcast were maximized at 5 years.

Joseph Woolston Brick

1:03 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Wow, they are going to carry the Philly HDTV channels Big deal! BUT in order to get those channels in HDTV, you will have to pay $9.95 per HDTV set in your home for the HDTV box. Isn't that wonderful! Plus another $9.95 fee if you have more than one HDTV in your home. Isn't that special! Put up an antenna and get those Philly and NYC HDTV channels for FREE. They come in better, the sound is better as they don't have to compress the signal like Comcast does. Cut the cord I did! I kept them for Internet only and they gave me a promo for that which just finished, the promo was for the Internet and rental on the modem for $44.95 per month. Want to know what it is now? Almost $78 including the modem rental, thats for the slowest speed tier, non Blast service thanks Comcast and you didn't use Vaseline either, it sure hurt! Comcast your out of control. Time to get a competitor here in town to give Comcast a little run for their money. Don't even think FIOS is a competitor as they are NOT going to wire the rest of the township for FIOS. We need another cable company like Times Warner . Yep Brick, we are getting more channels, just BEND OVER . Oh and starting September 1st, you know the freebe box the basic Scientific Atlanta box? It won't be free anymore! Comcast, as least you could provide some free lube for your customers!

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TimeForChange

2:53 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

You can't get a competitor because Acropolis gave Comcast an exclusive 15 year contract last year. All previous contracts were for 5 years and then a supposed satisfaction review. Thank you mayor. You managed to screw us there too.

Joseph Fekete

6:58 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Keep the NYC channel line up ! I'm a Yankees - Giants fan !

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Scott Johnston

8:07 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Joseph you will get both now, all in HD

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Joseph Woolston Brick

9:03 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Yep Joseph, you will get both NYC and Philly in HD just fork over your hard earned cash to pay extra for the HD box. Could you imagine if they had pulled this crap with black and white and color? One box for black and white and if you wanted color you had to for over more cash? People don't understand HD yet, too new and a bit confusing. You learn real fast when you buy a few HD sets for your house and have service from Comcast.

WMS826

9:18 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

What dope decided this. So no more going from 2-4-7 when a hot news story is on. I do not have a high def set so I now have to dial 3 digits to watch network TV

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TimeForChange

1:46 pm on Thursday, August 16, 2012

Funny, no one seems to be to concerned that Acropolis gave Comcast a 15 year contract, yet there are plenty of posts complaining about how many numbers have to be "dialed" (if your dialing, you are still watching Lost in Space), Comcast's charges etc... The bottom line is that if you don't like the cost, don't buy the product. What you should be mad at is that Acropolis gave Comcast immunity from cable competition for 15 years! FIOS is not everywhere and, as one post pointed out, they halted their efforts to wire the rest of Brick. Direct TV or DISH or the only other options that I am aware of and their costs are right up there. You just put out more initially as you purchase your boxes and pay for the service.

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nan

6:01 pm on Thursday, August 16, 2012

The contracts over the years have always been 15 years. This contract is non exclusive because Verizon won its fight for statewide approval as opposed to town by town. "We the people" should demand Verizon fulfill their plan. We have to demand the Legislators hold their feet to the fire.

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Joseph Woolston Brick

11:06 pm on Saturday, September 1, 2012

Nan for as long as I have lived in Brick which is forever, I never heard of a 15 year contract being signed for any of the cable companies. They used to be relatively short like 5 or so. Not 15.

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TimeForChange

1:18 am on Sunday, September 2, 2012

nan, all previous Comcast contracts were for 5 years. This is the first that was given for 15 years.

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