[bluecountry]

Not related to my sports posts...I was checking out the Hartford Courant on Sunday.

In the section on CT towns...it has as cable guide for the week, which lists a variety of local cable servers.
There is a corresponding grid to each cable network that informs you of what stations you do and don't get.

I noticed several very odd patterns.
I'll post below...and I'll ask if any of you were aware of this...what possible logic there could be for such bizarre channel lineups...and what one might to correct.


1) I recall Rich Lee saying Cox communications of Cheshire does not have any broadcast NY stations (ABC/CBS/NBC/Fox).
-That is correct
-However....Cox communications for Enfield, CT has FOX and ABC from NY along with NBC and ABC from Springfield.
Do you realize this makes zero sense? Cheshire is in New Haven County...part of the NY tri state region...Enfield is further away and covers towns like Somers/Suffield/Stafford...and Union!!!!....the later of which is 145 miles from NY and several of which border MASS!
Is there any reason why the same cable company would have NY stations for one location WAAAY out there near the quiet corner while dropping it for those a hair from metro north?
(Side...maybe Rich you can use this to get your broadcast NY channels back!)

2) Another oddity is with Comcast. They have Comcast Branford...which gets Three broadcast NY stations. This covers East Haven, Branford, Guilford, North Branford, Wallingford, and Madison. Fair enough.
The next town over...clinton...uses Comcast Clinton. Not only do they NOT have any broadcast NY stations....they actually have ABC Boston. To me...this makes zero sense....how do you go from having 3 NY stations to none with Boston instead...when it is just one town over??? Not only that...Clinton is MUCH closer to NY...and right on the border with greater metro NY. Makes ZERO logically sense.

3) Lastly....they listed a few cable stations. I found it refreshing, but odd...that just one of the listed cable companies did not carry YES...Charter serving (Ashford/Willington/Windham/Canterbury/Columbia/Coventry/Mansfield/Thompson)....but Comcast Groton carries YES all the way to Stonington on the RI border...and COX Enfield carries yes to Somers/Suffield/Stafford/Union.
Again this follows no logical pattern. They offer YES in towns bordering MASS to the Northeast....and Southeast...but in the center they bypass YES (albeit it with a different company in charter)????
Even more confusing...they do so in towns like Mansfield...which has college students from all over central, southern, and western CT...where there would be a good market...and likely better...than in towns like Union.

Was anybody else aware of these oddities with omissions of broadcast NY and YES...I don't get why Charter is apparently the lone holdout of YES statewide...and in a college town no less.
Maybe that is why they rank last in customer satisfaction!

[uconn99]

Charter serves a part of the state which is Boston influenced, besides their opperation in Newtown.

Once again, you can always buy the major league package or any of the sports packages if you can't watch the team you root for.

[bluecountry]

Well the Charter in NE CT was just one anaomly.

How about COX not offering broadcast NY stations in Cheshire BUT offering it in Stafford...which is north of Willington which doesn't offer YES?

Or

Comcast offering Broadcast NY TV in Madison but the next town over..Clinton..gets broadcast Boston even though it is a good 120 miles away in southern CT.
Really weird and needs fixing.