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Old 11-28-2010, 04:34 PM
 
Location: Leesburg, VA
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From DCRTV.com:

11/27 - Verizon's Fios announces that it'll be yanking Hagerstown NBC affiliate Channel 25/WHAG from its cable TV systems serving Washington's western suburbs - including Montgomery, Fairfax, and Loudoun counties. The station will go missing by the end of the year in those areas. WHAG is not carried by any other cable TV systems in the immediate DC metro. Verizon advises its subscribers in affected areas that they can continue to view NBC shows via NBC-owned Channel 4/WRC, the DC station which will soon be owned by Verizon rival Comcast after Comcast's merger with NBC is approved. WHAG, which is owned by Nexstar, will continue to be carried by most cable TV systems in the Hagerstown region, as well as on Dish Network in the DC area.....

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If you read between the lines- it makes sense for the immediate DC suburbs. But if you dig deeper into the story, it means that the areas WHAG serves Jefferson County, Berkley County, Washington County (possibly Frederick County MD) and points west will never ever, ever not ever receive Verizon FiOS in their areas. I take it at one point in time Verizon had plans to service these counties- but this recent announcement (as well as Verizon's departure from West Virginia) means those plans have been shelved. So if you are sick of your cable provider or satellite provider and want FiOS- sorry you have to move to Northern Virginia or the Baltimore suburbs.
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Old 11-28-2010, 09:22 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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I didn't even know we got WHAG until this week, and after I found out I wondered why we had it.

Verizon's not planning on starting any more fiber deployments (at least not for a while), so it'll only be completing whatever it started or planned on starting. So DC will be getting FiOS eventually (since they started digging in the summer). Sucks for those counties you mentioned though... this country's internet service is so pathetic compared to what they have in Asia and Europe.
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