Bright House Networks will soon drop more than a dozen channels from some of its older cable lineups, and keep those channels only on its newer digital tiers of service.
Those include The Travel Channel HD, MLB Network HD, Lifetime Real Women and Disney Channel HD. To keep viewing those and other channels, customers would need a digital set-top box or similar two-way connection from Bright House.
Bright House officials say the move is a formality and should only impact the small remainder of customers who still have the oldest connections or cable service through a CableCARD that plugs a cable line directly into a TV.
Those TVs were generally sold from manufacturers who advertised them as "digital ready" and didn't require a box from the cable company. They were considered one-way systems, and are often used with extra TVs in the house not connected to a cable company box.
Now, cable companies are working to upgrade their networks and open up more capacity for more high-definition channels, on-demand movies and interactive services run directly by the cable company.
Bright House spokesman Joe Durkin said the company would directly notify customers who could be affected, and make an offer for them to upgrade to digital service.
Channels disappearing from older systems as of Sept. 16 include: Palladia, Travel Channel HD,
Versus HD, MLB Network HD, Disney Channel HD, America's Auction Network, Arts & Coin TV,
Celebrity Shopping Network, mun2, Lifetime Real Women, CNBC World, CBS College Sports,
Current TV, FitTV, Bright House Networks Travel Weather Now, Centric, Ovation TV.
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