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Old 10-26-2015, 12:50 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis / St Paul
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I cannot believe the ineptitude in dealing with this company; after literally hours on the phone over problems with almost every aspect of signing up for cable service I'm hoping someone here can help us out.

An elderly relative entered a nursing home. When all other efforts to get decent tv reception failed, we ordered comcast/xfinity basic cable. Apparently all the channel numbers are different! I don't watch tv, so know nothing except the local broadcast channels numbers all have a period in the number (e.g., 2.3, 5.6, 11.2, etc.)

By chance we figured out what a couple of the new numbers are under the comcast regime, but we haven't been able to figure out over half of them. The person really needs a list showing the old pre-cable local broadcast channel number and the new number under comcast cable. I'd have thought this would be fairly simple...

Can you please help?
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Old 10-26-2015, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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here is a list of the stations that looks to be what is available for OTA antennas. I have a larger roof-top antenna and while about an hour from both downtowns, get most of these. Know it may not be feasible in your situation but this gives you a starting point on what may be available to view.

Not sure how these transfer to Comcast channels and maybe many of these don't. I think the last time I did a scan with my TV for OTA channels I picked up 28 and more than 20 of those receive regular viewing in our household. One of our recent favorites is Buzzer TV (9.4)...a wide mix of old game shows dating from the 50's thru the 90's, funny to see people get all whipped up on 'Let's Make a Deal' after winning a $2,500 Ford Pinto.

I have had some luck with the flat panel TV antennas but nothing close to what I could get on a roof top directional antenna.

Stations for Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Old 10-26-2015, 02:35 PM
 
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Plug the address in here and it will generate a Comcast channel lineup chart for that address:

Comcast - Channel Line Up

Includes a print option, but you could also export the data and create your own chart if you wanted to further edit/modify to print.
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Old 10-26-2015, 03:54 PM
 
Location: In the reddest part of the bluest state
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Doesn't the remote have a guide button on it?
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