Verizon FIOS to add A&E HD on channel 842

Posted Oct 13th 2007 1:42PM by Ben Drawbaugh
Filed under: New content, Fiber

In yet another installment of "what took so long" Verizon FIOS is adding A&E HD in at least the Tampa market -- for now -- on channel 842. This is the first HD addition to the lineup in six months, at a time when most other providers are adding new HD channels in record numbers. We're still trying to get to the bottom as to why Verizon is sitting on the sidelines, and then when they finally do add a new channel, they add one with so little actual HD content. Until then, we'll wait for this channel to show as indicated on scrolling message on channel 49. We dont' know when they'll it for the rest of the country, but it's usually Verizon's practice to add channels near their super head ends, just before the national deployment.

Thanks Bryan!

Tags: FIOS

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Tim P @ Oct 13th 2007 1:50PM

FIOS will be coming to my neighborhood soon, but I can't justify switching to them while Cox (my cable provider) keeps rolling out the new HD stations. It seems kind of silly for Verizon to have all that bandwidth and not use it.

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GatorNickk @ Oct 13th 2007 2:37PM

I'm in Tampa and we don't have that channel yet. Just checked.

I did talk to a buddy of mine who is a FIOS installer, and he did say that we are supposed to get a bunch of new HD channels "soon". Whenever that is.

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Ben @ Oct 13th 2007 2:37PM

Nick, I'm in Tampa also.

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neterizon @ Oct 13th 2007 4:52PM

I see the same scroll message for the Northern Virginia / Washington DC Metro region.

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Eric M @ Oct 13th 2007 6:03PM

Verizon's channel changes are nationwide, unless there is some local contract issue.

I have the same message in NJ.

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Verizon FIOS to add A&E HD on channel 842

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