Author Topic: GSN & Digital/Basic Cable (Read 9918 times)

Jumpondees · « **on:** December 01, 2003, 08:33:53 PM »

I just read something in my mailbox today....snail mail that is...

Comcast here in Pittsburgh is moving GSN off the Digital Cable and on to the Basic Cable service. GSN is currently on channel 161 and come Wednesday it will move to channel 52.

Obviously, this would be a great move ... People who don't normally get Digital will be able to watch GSN, and thus possibly increas viewership....I realize it won't be much, but still it's an increase....

Now my question is this...How many people get GSN on Basic as opposed to Digital?

From what I've read over the past few years between here and over ATGS, it seems that a lot of cable ops put GSN on thier Digital service ... it just kinda seems odd that all of a sudden, the channel gets moved from Digital to Basic.

PeterMarshallFan · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2003, 08:39:09 PM »

All 3 and a quarter years I've had GSN, it's been on basic for me.

Steve McClellan · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2003, 08:43:48 PM »

Hehehe, maybe I convinced enough people with the commercial I shot for them in April: (Shot of me holding enormous check) "Hey Pittsburgh, I am so glad Comcast came to town, because they brought Game Show Network and the Get Schooled Tour, where I just won $10,000 for college! Thank you Comcast!" :-p

On another note, to my knowledge, GSN is on digital channel 161 in Oil City, PA, and analog 74 in San Luis Obispo, CA.

MikeK · « **Reply #3 on:** December 01, 2003, 09:34:10 PM »

I've had GSN 4 years today. For the first three years, GSN was on the basic tier--channel 76, then 50. Since about this time last year, it's been on digital channel 144.

Pyramid80 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 01, 2003, 10:07:01 PM »

I did have GSN on basic cable through Charter Communications on Channel 65. Then when I moved 2 years ago, I moved into an area that carried Time Warner (now Bright House Networks) and GSN was only on their Digital Tier at channel 104.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #5 on:** December 01, 2003, 10:10:43 PM »

In seattle, GSN is on Comcast Digital Cable channel 161.

I have a silly suspicion. My household bought digital cable for 3 channels: My mom wanted Home and Garden Television, My dad wanted the Golf Channel, and I wanted GSN. Over the summer, both HGTV and Golf Channel moved to basic cable. I'm predicting/hoping GSN will be next.

urbanpreppie05 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 01, 2003, 10:12:50 PM »

Time Warner of Akron/Canton used to have GSn on channel 105, but about 1 1/2 months ago, it moved to channel 67.

Casey Buck · « **Reply #7 on:** December 01, 2003, 10:19:51 PM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 07:10 PM\'] In seattle, GSN is on Comcast Digital Cable channel 161.
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Hmm...it seems that Comcast has the same channel numbers for all digital cable lineups, since it's also Channel 161 here in Portland, Oregon as well.

Chelsea Thrasher · « **Reply #8 on:** December 01, 2003, 11:13:35 PM »

Still on Digital Here (Mediacom Channel 220) as of a couple mos ago (Was at someone's house with Dig. Cable here...I have Dish)

TV Favorites · « **Reply #9 on:** December 01, 2003, 11:17:44 PM »

I've had GSN on Comcast basic cable channel 57 since February 2001.

daveromanjr · « **Reply #10 on:** December 01, 2003, 11:29:29 PM »

Wow! My father had said something about reading GSN would be coming to basic cable but lost the article (however it was the Beaver County Times so its probably better that way). I tried looking that up online but to no avail. I have digital cable in my room just for GSN and its gonna save a lot of money to get rid of digital. I originally signed up for a bigger cable package to get NickGAS and HBO but I don't even watch them anymore.

Woohoo!!!

Rastaub · « **Reply #11 on:** December 01, 2003, 11:31:11 PM »

I have had GSN here in the Scranton-Wilkes Barre PA area since December 1998. It has been on basic cable (Adelphia) on channel 49. It was channel 107 on digital for a few months, but it seems to have been removed recently.

Thad Dixon · « **Reply #12 on:** December 01, 2003, 11:40:34 PM »

I've had GSN for about two and a half years now, and it's been through Cox Digital Cable the entire time. When I first got it in June 2001 it was on digital channel 343, then it moved to 243 a couple of months later and has been there ever since.

combsisthebest · « **Reply #13 on:** December 02, 2003, 02:09:12 AM »

I don't get GSN, since it is offered on COX digital cable (222) and we can't afford that right now. It has been coming on channel 77 every once and a while for a week at a time, since 2001.

TraderRob · « **Reply #14 on:** December 02, 2003, 04:06:17 PM »

GSN came to Channel 89 of the basic lineup of WOW! Internet & Cable in Chicagoland on September 10, 2002.

The majority of Chicagoland has Comcast and it, too, is Channel 161. Formerly AT&T, they've had GSN on digital cable since, I believe, 1999.

Rob

Author Topic: GSN & Digital/Basic Cable (Read 9918 times)

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