Comcast, bolstering its international roster of networks, has launched 14 "more" services in the San Francisco Bay area.
Part of a recent digital upgrade under the Project Calvalry reclamation initiative, area customers are also seeing their channel lineup change for 18 other services to better group to channels that share a similar language or country of origin.
Earlier this year, Comcast began the digital migration, offering the upgrades from analog to its "Standard Cable" customers under the consumer heading, "The World of More," while converting channels 31 and above to a digitally delivered format. Comcast's digital upgrade also reclaimed analog bandwidth to allow the company to provide more products and services to customers, also including faster Internet speeds and more on-demand content. Comcast is continuing its digital migration in other portions of the Bay Area and those areas will receive the new programming in subsequent phases later this year.
The new channels that are available: Setanta Sports (English/International) 300; TV Globo (Portuguese/Brazilian) 305; PFC 100% Futebol (Portuguese/Brazilian) 306; Band Internacional (Portuguese/Brazilian) 307; RTPi (Portuguese) 310; Antenna Satellite (Greek) 312; Deutsche Welle (German) 315; Channel 1 Russia (Russian) 325;
Star India News (South Asian - Hindi) 341; Star One (South Asian - Hindi) 342; Star India Gold (South Asian - Hindi) 343; Vijay (South Asian - Tamil) 349; GMA Life TV (English + Tagalog) 370; and MYX (English) 368. The latter is available on Comcast's Digital Preferred Tier.
The 18 channel changes are as follows: TV5 Monde (French) from channel 252 to 317; Raitalia (Italian) 254 to 319; RTN (Russian) 255 to 324; TV Japan (Japanese) 245 to 330; SBTN (Vietnamese) 248 to 331; TVK (Korean) 263 to 332; Zee TV (South Asian) 246 to 336; TV Asia (South Asian) 247 to 337; SET Asia (South Asian) 249 to 338; Star India Plus (South Asian) 250 to 340; CTI-Zhong Tian Channel (Chinese/Mandarin) 243 to 354; CCTV-4 (Chinese/Mandarin) 244 to 355; Phoenix InfoNews Channel (Mandarin/Dragon Pack) 257 to 356; Phoenix North America Chinese Channel (Mandarin/Dragon Pack) 258 to 357; ETTV-Super Channel (Mandarin/Dragon Pack) 256 to 358; TVB Jade (Chinese/Cantonese) 262 to 360; The Filipino Channel (Filipino) 241 to 367: and GMA Pinoy TV (Filipino) 242 to 369.
Beginning August 10, the new programming became available to residential homes and businesses in the following cities: Belvedere, Corte Madera, Cupertino, Fairfax, Forest Knolls, Greenbrae, Kentfield, Lagunitas, Larkspur, Los Altos, Marin, Mill Valley, Milpitas, Mountain View, Novato, Ross, San Anselmo, San Geronimo, San Quentin, San Rafael, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Sausalito, Sunnyvale, Tiburon and Woodacre
