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Arrived this week in FiOS' New York City-area systems on channel 531. Considering how weak channel 31's OTA signal is, it's welcomed. Now if only ION had any original programming. Its schedule is mostly infomercials and preachers begging for money, off-network reruns in prime time, and the...

FiOS TV Finally Gets MSNBC In NY DMA Cablevision Loses Exclusive Terrestrial Distribution Rights To News Channel By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, January 28, 2010 Cablevision Systems has lost its exclusive hold on...

Verizon Debuts Caller ID On FiOS TV In Three Markets Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Texas Customers First To Receive Feature By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, December 10, 2009 Verizon launched its first caller ID on TV services...

from The Hollywood Reporter: Epix lands first carriage deal FiOS TV in five-year pact; Epix boss discusses originals By Georg Szalai July 28, 2009, 08:58 AM ET NEW YORK - Epix, the premium TV service that is a joint venture between Viacom, Lionsgate and MGM, has reached its first...

Looks like we FiOS customers are expected to start paying some return on Verizon's fiber investment: Verizon Sees FiOS Price Hikes Helping Margins Telco Boosted Price of Multiservice Bundles $5 to $10 in June By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, July 27, 2009 Verizon's recent price increases...

The channel launches July 20th, according to this page on BBC America's website: BBC AMERICA HD - BBC America

from MultiChannel News 6/16/09: Verizon Expected to Launch FiOS1 NY Next Week June 16, 2009 Local news and weather channel FiOS1 New York will launch next Monday, June 22, available exclusively to Verizon FiOS TV subscribers in the New York metropolitan area, according to a source familiar...

Looking at the onscreen program guide today, I noticed that all the promised HD channels that had been listed since November as "Coming Soon" were not there anymore. We're talking about NBA-HD, A&E's C/I HD, and the handful of travel/cooking/autos/pets/Spanish channels from Byron Allen's...

Cablevision pulled the plug on the remaining VOOM channels at 1:30 this morning.:mad:

from Multichannel News: Verizon Promo Offers 70 Pay Channels Free For Three Months New FiOS TV Subs Receive 90 Days Free Access To HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Starz By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 11/3/2008 12:31:00 PM In a push to acquire subscribers, Verizon Communications is...

For those of you hoping in futility that cable operators would let Verizon carry Mojo on Fios, the channel is being shut down: Mojo HD To Say Bye Bye In Demand's MSO Owners Say Channel Helped Fill HD Gap -- For a While By Kent Gibbons -- Multichannel News, 10/7/2008 12:02:00 PM Mojo HD...

As reported 9/22/08 in Newsday, the Long Island newspaper now owned by FiOS arch-rival Cablevision: Verizon unveils FiOS TV features BY EMI ENDO emi.endo@newsday.com September 22...

Sounds like website-quality, AM radio, not full-fidelity.

Ever since we got TheMovieChannel Extra HD in the New York City suburbs (Channel 887), the audio has been cutting-out every-other second: you hear it for one second, then you don't for a second, etc. Called to report it and even held the phone up to the speaker for the tech, but was told they...

The "skip ahead" button on my Philips remote has stopped working in the last few days. Tried changing its setting from 1-minute increments to 30-seconds, but still no luck. Dunno if it's a glitch in the latest software upgrade or a conscious business decision to placate broadcasters in bed...

Today's Associated Press story on Verizon's 1st-quarter profits suggests more High Definition TV channels (and a rate increase) are coming to FiOS by the end of this 2nd quarter: "For the first time, the company divulged the average price FiOS customers are paying per month: $129. It is...

Found it quite by accident. Just a handful of shows are available (they're FREE) and you'll find them only by drilling down in the Menu button's Search directory: MENU SEARCH CONTENT TYPE ON DEMAND type "HD" in the Search window open HDTV folder Tonight there's a Golf Week travelogue, a...

Today's press release says it "will be rolled out in late 2008." Ain't that what they told us about all the dozens of other Hi-Def channels they've promised to add? Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. :: MGM Beefs Up US HD Channel With Verizon FiOS TV Distribution

While the DVR now lets you choose the time increment to jump forward or back anwhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes, FiOS has removed the ability to choose which channels to display in the program guide. And it still is slow to respond to remote-control commands. At least you can now turn...

Somebody had to have been asleep in Master Control last night because during the Starz premiere of "Bridge To Terabithia," the movie suddenly started running backwards, then went to black for SEVERAL MINUTES before somebody on The Red Phone got them to switch to a standard-definition filler of...

:D From today's Multichannel News: Verizon Lights Up HD VOD in Five Markets - 12/5/2007 9:16:00 AM - Multichannel News Verizon Lights Up HD VOD in Five Markets Mix Of 75 Free, Pay Titles Includes Miniseries From Comcast's FearNet By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 12/5/2007 9:16:00 AM...

According to tomorrow's edition of Broadcasting & Cable, "Verizon expects to have 1,000 HD on-demand titles by the end of next year" Who's Got the Best HD? - 11/26/2007 - Broadcasting & Cable

FiOS has now added 2 standard-definition subcarriers of WABC's HD signal, Channels 867 and 868. One carries reruns of Channel 7's syndicated and public-affairs shows and the other carries Accuweather forecasts with a local news scroll at the bottom. Now if only WPIX would put alternate...

Found it in the FiOS On Demand directory today, under "All Free" > "Movies and Trailers" > "Film Fest Channel," after reading this item on today's Sky Report website: "Film Movement, the North American film company that distributes first-run, independent and foreign films, launched the Film...

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