My neighbour (who is a cranky old man in his 70s) called me over yesterday because something was 'wrong' with his HD cable box (turns out he had just accidentally hit the Record button, so nothing was really wrong). While I was there I saw that he received a postcard from Cogeco saying that he would get 6 FREE HD channels starting from now on.
Of course, being smarter than most media outlets I was skeptical, and then I looked at the offerings. Yep I was right. TLC, History, MovieTime, KTLA, WPIX and WGN. Only the first two of those are really free (and have been for a while), the rest require you to be subscribed to their respective packages. In the case of the last 3 channels, 'free' costs you the entire TMN package, which is a good $20 for three supposedly 'free' channels.
While they were at it, why didn't they advertise the rest of those 'free' channels, like LeafsTV, RaptorsTV, CBS College Sports, National Geographic HD, and Bold HD? Those are all in the same boat as MovieTime, so why does MovieTime get the extra attention?