White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Who Moved <i>White Plains Week</i>? Cablevision Shifts White Plains Channels.

WPCNR WHITE PLAINS VARIETY. Interview with Bill Powers, Cablevision. By John F. Bailey. December 10, 2002: Cablevision is moving the White Plains cable television channels effective midnight Wednesday. On your cable dial, the in-city cable television channels will now be viewed on three new channels, slightly down your cable dial, Channels 75,76, and 77.

Thursday, December 12, Public Access Channel 71 will shift to Channel 76 on your cable dial. White Plains City Hall Channel will shift from Channel 72 to Channel 75 and The White Plains City School District Channel moves from Channel 73 to Channel 77 (The “ABC” Channel!).

Residents of White Plains got the official news Monday in a flyer to Cablevision viewers, with the explanation for the move being that “we are adding these new channels to Family Basic: MTV2, Speed Channel, and Travel Channel.”

WPCNR interviewed, Bill Powers, Director of Media Relations for Cablevision, in Bethpage, Long Island, and Powers explained the channel move is “standardizing the channel lineup and service offerings throughout the Cablevision service area of Westchester, New York City and Long Island.” Previously, Powers said, the public access, local government and school district educational channels were on many different channels throughout the various towns and cities in the coverage area. Thursday’s changes, Powers said, puts them all on the same numbers, 75,76 and 77.

Paves way for i/O Interactive Optimum service.
i/O-Interactive Optimum cablevision’s new digital cable service. Powers said Cablevision is “in the process of rolling out i/O to their 1,540,000 customers, and are in the process of launching i/O in Westchester.”

Powers said plans to bring i/O to the county were announced in November. He said, currently 80,400 customers subscribe to i/O in the metropolitan area, a number that has grown 88% through September 2002. The new digital service was launched on Long Island in September 2001.

200 Channels of Television/Commercial Free Music/Video On Demand.

Mr. Powers told WPCNR that the new i/O service would offer subscribers 200 digital quality television channels, plus 45 commercial free music variety channels for play through home sound systems, plus 1,000 movie and television programs and features on their Video On Demand service. Video On Demand, Powers explained allows customers to dial up a movie title, and play it on their television system with the option of rewinding and fast forwarding, just like a VCR. Powers reports Cablevision has an arrange with Fox Entertainment to offer the first and second seasons of the hit shows, 24 and The Shield, as part of that package with more exclusives being negotiated.

More information on i/O is available on the Cablevision website at www.cablevision.com.
Alerts subscribers with telemarketing calls and Cable Bumper Slide.

Powers said White Plains viewers will be alerted to the changes when they go into effect Thursday morning at midnight. He said viewers will see a bumper slide come up on their screen advising of the changes in the lineups.

He noted that the company would also be making telemarketing calls on Wednesday, letting White Plains subscribers know to check their channel lineups that their favorites may have moved. Cablevision will also be running “crawls” on The Weather Channel advising subscribers of the changes.

Speed Channel Debuts.

Powers explained that the Speed Channel offers programming to appeal to automobile, flying and boating hobbyiests, and that more details about what viewers can expect on the Speed Channel can be learned by going to www.speedtv.com.


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