Rogers Cable turns off HDNet
Out with the old and in with the new appears to be the motto at Rogers Cable today as the company dropped the popular HDNet channel from its digital cable line-up and added the new Rogers owned FX Canada.
Rogers did not provide its customers with any rationale for why it was dropping the U.S. general interest television channel from its HD Specialty and HD Nature Themes pack.
In a canned letter to subscribers asking why HDNet was being removed from the line-up, Rogers would only say that “the removal of HDNet is a business decision” and that it would not compensate customers for the loss of the station.
Rogers is the second major Canadian distributor to drop HDNet from its line-up in the last year. Bell Satellite removed HDNet from its offerings last December after an apparent contract dispute between the two firms.
HDNet, which has been broadcasting exclusively in high-definition since 2001, is still available in Rogers territory from Shaw Direct.
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Very dissapoiting, and for some of us that live in condominums where only Rogers and bell are available, we are really taking the hit here. HDNET is my favorite channel. I already switched carrier last year from Bell since they also droppep hdnet last december.
I dont know what to say…cant wait to move to a house so that i can put a Shaw Direct dish and watch my favorite channel, or i really really hope that HDNET will offer internet based streaming at a yearly fee.
Now a days big companies take everything for granted, ingnoring customers…what are we supposed to do ? Riot ?
“Rogers would only say that “the removal of HDNet is a business decision” and that it would not compensate customers for the loss of the station.”
This is just the type of response one would expect from a company that has no ‘real’ competition.
Rogers dropped the popular HDNet channel from its digital cable line-up and added the new Rogers owned FX Canada…. in Ontario only! HDNet got dropped here in the Atlantic but we won’t get FX Canada anytime soon. Way to go Rogers! I can’t wait for Aliant FiberOp to be available where I live.
When HDNet is owned by an egotistical know-nothing idiot of a businessman like Mark Cuban, is it really that hard to imagine their demands may be far unreasonable in these negotiations? Seriously, just Google the guy to read some hilarious stuff. Let’s just say he even believed in that internet exaflood stuff-even when he was trying to peddle IPTV.