MeTV replaced with the Story channel?

@gregjgisp​ Same problem here. 359 says metv+ but it's showing decades shows but the guide displays metv+ shows so I don't what decades shows are on. Comcast has to fix this.

@hgregjgisp. Any current changes are made by the local station and we don't know whether or not a channel will come back until it is announced. Certain changes are only in certain areas and may not apply to you and there may be a technical issue. I refreshed your TV service to see if it helps with the guide. Let me know! 

@XfinityEthan​ 

MeTV+ can now be seen in Chicago for free with an antenna on channel 48.4. The network is not currently available on cable or streaming. Please contact your cable provider and ask them to carry MeTV+. Comcast Xfinity viewers, call 1-800-Comcast

Will Xfinity carry METV Plus?

How do we get me tv plus back in connecticut

Hey! We appreciate the information on the guide information. From time to time, the guide information can reflect differently depending on what the network has decided to air, have you experienced any further issues? 

MeTV+ can now be seen in Chicago for free with an antenna on channel 48.4. The network is not currently available on cable or streaming. Please contact your cable provider and ask them to carry MeTV+. Comcast Xfinity viewers, call 1-800-Comcast

MeTV+ is available on Xfinity cable TV in my area.  I'm not sure how long it's been available. I didn't know about it until StoryTV appeared a couple of days ago on another channel that used to be MeTV.

@andyross​ When will MeTV Plus be available again?

Adding MeTV+ would involve Comcast ADDING a channel. That takes much more work with agreements, payments and contract changes. Since MeTV+ is just another old TV show channel competing with a billion others, Weigel Broadcasting (WCIU's owner) decided that the unique programming of Story was more competitive and replaced it on Comcast for now.

It's not just Chicago, but probably the same for other markets where the change happened.

For reference, WCIU currently broadcasts 2 HD and 5 SD channels!! That is really pushing the limits of ATSC 1.0 (digital broadcast TV standard.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCIU-TV#Subchannels

With near 1300 channels,and so many channels just repeated in different places , why  don't  they just  return metv+in a different spot? I hate it when they remove a channel that you like,are paying for, and love watching  for some bogus reason.

@andyross​ Unless I'm mistaken, Comcast didn't carry MeTV+ in my market until they added StoryTV.  Well, maybe it was there before but I didn't realize because I use my own DVR (TiVo) and have the program guide set up such that it only shows channels I receive.  Maybe at some point Comcast added MeTV+ and I simply didn't realize that so I could update my DVR to display the channel.

At any rate, MeTV+ is in my lineup in San Francisco, as is StoryTV and MeTV.  Right after StoryTV was added, though, MeTV went away for about a day, with StoryTV showing on two adjacent channels.  I complained to Comcast and Weigel that even though I could pick up MeTV via an antenna, it wasn't shown on the Comcast channel assigned to it.  The next day the lineup was corrected. 

I highly doubt it's a contractual issue given that MeTV+ is still available in some Comcast markets, and that we are talking about an over-the-air channel owned by the same company whose other channels are still being carried by Comcast.  It could be simply that MeTV+ has moved to a different channel in some markets.  I think someone in my area complained that MeTV+ was no longer available in the Standard Definition channel lineup, meaning that if you don't subscribe to a tier that includes High Definition you no longer see the channel.  Another issue to consider is that Comcast has made some channels IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) on the HD feed but left them in QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation, the traditional way cable TV channels have been delivered) on the SD feed, meaning that you either need one of Comcast's boxes to watch the channel in HD or have to watch in SD.  Perhaps MeTV+ is only available in some markets to people with a Comcast box that's compatible with IPTV? 

Figuring out which channels you actually receive with your subscription is far more confusing that it needs to be.

In Northern VA, MeTV has moved and MeTV+ has been added, but they're now in a tier I do not get and I do not care to upgrade to. I'm still annoyed when they moved TCM to the sports tier and expected me to give them extra bucks every month just so I can have what I had before.

I know what would happen if I said "well, you're saying TCM cost $8 a month, and you took it away so I'll pay you $8 a month less.

@SNAKE-PLISSKEN​ As has been noted, these are all BROADCAST networks carried by a local TV station. Comcast cannot add them on it's own. It can only pass them on if a local TV station carries them. They cannot add them in HD if the local station is only carrying them in SD.

HI there and thank you so much for taking the time to reach out to Xfinity Support here on our Community Forum!  We are so glad to hear from you and want to assist in any way that we can. So that we can take a closer look at this for you, please feel free to shoot us a private message.  That way we can access your account and see what we can do about this for you.  

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Hello and thanks for taking the time to reach out, @user_62198b. I am sorry we do not have METV+ and I will pass your feedback along about wanting the channel. 

@user_1381a4​ I just found it on channel 1048. It looks like they moved it but the channel lineup seems to be the same.