Charter to Add 8 HD Channels In St. Louis
The cable operator says they were picked by their customers.
By Swanni
The new channels will be: AMC HD, CNN HD, The Learning Channel HD, Animal Planet HD, The Science Channel HD, Smithsonian Channel HD, TBS HD and The Movie Channel-HD.
Many Charter subscribers have complained in Internet message boards and in e-mails to TVPredictions.com that the cable operator has been slow to add high-def channels.
Charter Communications COO Michael Lovett said last month that his company offers more "HD choices" than any other competitor.
But Charter offers less than 30 high-def channels in most markets. For instance, in St. Louis, the company's headquarters, Charter now offers just 22 national and local high-def channels. (The new group of eight will make 30.)
DIRECTV, the national leader in high-def channels, now carries 95 national HD channels while some cable operators such as Time Warner and Cablevision offer around 40.
According to the St. Louis Business Journal, Charter spokeswoman Anita Lamont said the eight new HD channels were selected in a recent customer survey. Subscribers were polled and asked which channels they would like to see added, she said.
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