Now that Cablevision has entered the “100 HD Club,” it apparently no longer has any objections to counting West Coast feeds of the same network as part of the total lineup. (See Cablevision Hits 100 HD Channels.)
Rewind to July 2008: Verizon, as part of the marketing push into New York City, drove its HD score over the 100 mark.
At the time, Cablevision snipped that there were a whole lotta duplicate feeds in there — I counted 16 channels that were simply East or West coast feeds of another channel already in the HD lineup. (See Verizon’s 100 HD Channels: Too Many Duplicates?)
Cablevision, in getting into the triple-digits, has used the very same trick: 11 of the “new” HDs it is introducing are West Coast feeds of HBO, Showtime and Starz networks it already carries.
Yeah, I know, the satellite guys started it. But Time Warner Cable, to its credit, did not use bicoastal feeds to get up to 100 in NYC. (See Time Warner Cable Offering 100 HD Channels In NYC.)
Here’s the full list of Cablevision’s 100 HD channels, scheduled to be available to all subscribers by June, in alphabetical order (new channels in bold):
@MAX HD
A&E HD
ABC HD
ActionMAX HD
AMC HD
Animal Planet HD
BET HD
Bio HD
Bravo HD
CBS HD
Cinemax HD
Cinemax West HD
CMT HD
CNBC HD
CNN HD
Comedy Central HD
Crime & Investigation HD
CW HD
Discovery Channel HD
E! HD
Encore HD
ESPN HD
ESPN2 HD
Five Star Max HD
Food Network HD
FOX HD
FOX News HD
fuse HD
FX HD
G4 HD
Golf HD
Hallmark Movie Channel HD
HBO Comedy HD
HBO Family HD
HBO Family West HD
HBO HD
HBO Latino HD
HBO Signature HD
HBO Signature West HD
HBO West HD
HBO Zone HD
HBO2 HD
HBO2 West HD
HD Theater
HGTV HD
History Channel HD
IFC HD
Live Well HD
MLB Network HD
MoreMAX HD
MSG HD
MSG Plus HD
MTV HD
My9 HD
National Geographic Channel HD
NBA TV HD
NBC HD
NHL Network HD
Nickelodeon HD
Outdoor Channel HD
OuterMAX HD
Palladia HD
Planet Green HD
QVC HD
Sci-Fi HD
Science Channel HD
Showtime Extreme HD
Showtime HD
Showtime Showcase HD
Showtime Showcase West HD
Showtime Too HD
Showtime Too West HD
Showtime West HD
Speed Channel HD
Spike HD
SportsNet New York HD
Starz Comedy HD
Starz Edge HD
Starz HD
Starz Kids & Family HD
Starz West HD
Style HD
TBS in HD
The Weather Channel HD
Thirteen HD
Thriller Max HD
TLC HD
TMC HD
TMC West HD
TMC XTRA HD
TMC XTRA West HD
TNT in HD
Travel Channel HD
Universal HD
USA HD
VERSUS HD
VH1 HD
W Max HD
WE HD
YES HD
