Time Warner Cable will no longer market their HD services as “free” according to a company statement which followed a Better Business Bureaus recommendation. Multichannel reported yesterday The National Advertising Division found TMC had been using the term “free” for about two years when the price of HD service had actually become embedded in the price of its regular service. Therefore, it shouldn’t be called free. Full Story
Time Warner Cable has added 27 new HD (High-Definition) television channels in the Rio Grande Valley area of Southern Texas. (They recently added the same number in Corpus Christi.) That brings the total number of free HD channels for customers in the area to 37. Full Story
Time Warner Cable has reached a milestone 100 HD channels in the North East region, that according to Multichannel News. The area includes upstate New York and New England, where TMC’s digital conversion gave them the needed bandwidth to expand its high-def lineup. Full Story
Now Time Warner Cable subscribers in the New York City, Mount Vernon (New York) and New Jersey areas can watch outdoor sports in high-definition (HD), as the Outdoor Channel HD announced their carriage in those areas. Full Story
Time Warner Cable NYC launched Time Warner Cable Wideband Internet and Business Class Wideband Internet, delivering internet speeds up to 50 Mbps download, and 5 Mbps upload. Residential customers can have up to five devices simultaneously using the network. Full Story
According to the Desert Sun, Time Warner Cable has launched six new HD channels in the Palm Springs, California area. However, the channels are only available as part of certain subscription tiers. See below to see if they have been added to your channel lineup. Full Story
Time Warner Cable has added 27 new HD channels in its Corpus Christi, TX markets. The new channels are available free-of-charge to TMC subscribers who have an HD set-top box, and give customers access to a total of 35 high-definition channels. The areas include Corpus Christi and outlying areas Alice, Beeville and Orange Grove. Full Story
Time Warner and The Nielsen Company have signed a 7-year agreement which includes Nielsen TV, internet and mobile services. The Nielsen services will be provided to Time Warner broadcast, cable, syndication units and affiliates. Full Story
Time Warner Cable has reached and will surpass the 100 HD channel mark according to the Star-Gazette which serves the Elmira, NY area. The cable company added MSNBC HD and Smithsonian HD On Demand on Tuesday, and plans to add TCM HD and HLN (Headline News) HD tomorrow. Full Story
According the Ironton Tribune, Time Warner Cable added 15 new high-definition channels to its lineup in Ironton, Ohio. The HD channels are offered free-of-charge to customers who subscribe to the digital cable package and have an HD capable receiver and HDTV. Full Story
Time Warner Cable will reach 101 HD channels on Sunday, that according to News10Now out of Syracuse NY. The company says it has added 48 HD channels since January and will continue high definition channel conversions over the next few days. Full Story
Time Warner Cable and Smithsonian Networks have reached a distribution agreement which will allow the cable TV provider to broadcast the Smithsonian Channel in HD. Smithsonian Channel will also make its content available through Time Warner’s Road Runner internet service and On Demand in high definition. Full Story
Outdoor Channel will continue to be broadcast on Time Warner Cable, that according to an article from Broadcasting & Cable. The agreement between the two companies will allow the cable TV provider to continue broadcasting Outdoor Channel in both standard and high-definition in a multi-year renewal.
Fearnet has been dropped by both Time Warner Cable and Bright House, that according to an article from Home Media Magazine. The horror film-based VOD channel has featured films such as Wishmaster, The Evil Dead, Halloween, Friday the 13th and Saw on its free VOD service. Full Story
The New York Times reported on Monday that what is currently free to be had by you and me (thank you Hulu!), might only be available by subscription tomorrow. Time-Warner Cable is leading the pack to make currently free VOD via web a thing of the past as soon as possible. Full Story
Time Warner Cable added more HD channels in the Western New York area, that according to The Observer – Dunkirk NY. The new channels include CNBC HD, Bravo HD, IFC HD, USA HD, SCI FI HD, Fuse HD, WE HD and AMC HD. The additions bring the total number of HD channels available from TWC in the area to 71. Full Story
Time Warner Cable has added six new HD channels to its lineup in the Hilton Head Island and Sun City Hilton Head, South Carolina markets. The additions will start Friday, that according to the Hilton Head Island Packet. The new HD channels will include WSAV HD (Channel 805); USA HD (Channel 853); Scifi HD (Channel 854); CNBC HD (Channel 855); Bravo HD (Channel 856); and Telemundo SD (Channel 188). Full Story
Cable television provider Time Warner Cable has hit 100 HD channels in their New York City market areas. The company now offers 65 HD channels in its standard high-definition package, and 35 HD channels in its premium HD lineup. Full Story
Time Warner Cable has added four new HD channels to its lineup in San Antonio, TX. According to the San Antonio Business Journal, TWC has added CNBC HD, SCI FI HD, Bravo HD and USA HD. The company also added the Chiller network in standard-definition. Time Warner Cable now offers 76 HD channels in the San Antonio area.
AT&T has expanded its U-verse service to several areas this week. Among the new service areas are parts of Jackson, MI, El Paso, TX, and Topeka, KS. The U-verse TV service typically offers 85 HD channels at an extra $10 a month and provides an all-in-one television/internet/voice package over its fiber-optic based network. Full Story
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