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Removing Useless Channels
Why can't I remove useless channels (e.g. sports channels) that are never going to be watched? They're treated as if they are a value-added product when in reality they are overpriced bloat-programming.
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Xylene666
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5 years ago
@Again While it is probably true that you can't actually remove useless channels, it is arguably false to say that the packages are designed to appeal to a broad audience. The reality is that the few desired channels are smothered in a bunch of bloat to force the consumer to get more packages (and thus more bloat-programming) to get the few channels they actually want. There is absolutely no reason the system couldn't be set up with only a la cart programming other than the fact that Comcast wants to force the consumers to pay for a bunch of useless channels so they can arbitrarily raise their rates without providing a value-added. So it isn't a matter of can't but rather an issue of they won't allow it.
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CCAndrew
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OldTVGuide
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Dragonbrat
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5 years ago
Yeah I tried that really cool Favorites tool where you select the channels you watch. Then I get a message that nothing like that is available in my area. BIG HELP THAT WAS. NOT!!!!!!
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Xylene666
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5 years ago
CCAndrew This doesn't address the problem at all. I wasn't asking how to hide the bloat-programming. I was asking how to remove it and not have to pay for a plethora of channels I neither want nor will EVER use.
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Again
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5 years ago
You can't arbitrarily remove channels you don't want and don't want to pay for. Each plan has a broad spectrum of channels to appeal to a large group of people. While there are channels you might not watch in that plan, other people might. So, no, you can't remove or add channels à la carte. Sorry.
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Nashman12South
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5 years ago
Why can't we simply block channels we don't want to see. That's a much smaller list than setting up favorites. I could do that on Uverse.
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Nashman12South
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5 years ago
I get that we will never (most likely) ever get to pick channels individually. I'd just like to remove, from the guide, the ones I'll never watch. That is doable.
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Pam12
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5 years ago
Why not? Most of my channels are foreign language and religious, surely most cable viewers are not tuning in for that stuff.
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Mollie2018
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5 years ago
That would work if you could have multiple favorite lists, but I don't see an option to do that. Is there such an option?
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