Starz leaving Premiere packages?

Hi, what I mean about dropping the channel as the promotion ends would be no different than if any other promotion ends and the "package/promo" It may be more work for the company but less for the now happier customer.

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@JodieNJ wrote:
I don’t believe people with packages will be able to keep STARZ. I don’t know if you realize it, but at some point, they removed Cinemax from people’s package. It was part of mine, and if I go to a Cinemax channel now, I get a message saying that it requires a subscription in order to be able to watch it. Even though, until they decided to remove it, it WAS a part of my package.

One day I had it, the next day it was gone.

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This Starz thing is just an old re-run from last Summer's similar loss of Cinemax from our Premium Packages ..... At that time, there were many postings about that sad incident.  I'll bet there is more sadness to come as the inevitable competition from the Streaming Wars heats up in the coming New Year.

Here you go:

https://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Channels-and-Programming/Hitz-replacing-Cinemax-Really/td-p/3234070

As a further note of fairness, most all cable and satellite TV providers also annouced higher rates for 2020 over this Holiday Season .... so Comcast is in similar company, as much as it pains me to admit.

It's partly due to the Streaming Wars marching foward with newer lower-cost alternative streaming technology, plus many of the content creators/actors/providers also jumping on the gravy-train bandwagon by getting smarter/tougher agents and negoitators.  Thus the legacy content pipelines which deliver our shows (traditional cable and satellite) are getting squeezed.

It reminds me of our addiction to cheaper "made overseas" items which flooded our markets over the last 10 to 15 years.  As to the ultimate end-game?  Your guess is as good as mine.

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@JodieNJ wrote:
But why should we pay $8.99 extra when we signed up for a package for one or two years that we cannot leave without paying the money, a package that includes STARZ?

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I once thought I saw something (either here on the Forum, or on one of my Bills, or in the 24-Month Agreement) that states customers have 30 days from any changes made by Comcast to cancel their account without penalty, although I may wrong.  Maybe someone here on the Forum can refresh my memory?

I think it used to be that way.  Within 30 days of channel lineup changes you could cancel.

I'm looking at my current contract, and came across this line: 

Comcast is hardlyI a monopoly anymore...    Lots of TV choices now viable..  AT&T pulled fiber in my neighborhood and offers its service... DTV and Dish are still out there..  Plus all of the streaming only options available today... 

Still got Starz but will probably switch to getting it on Amazon after it's gone from Comcast..  

Since you have removed all but the main STARZ channel on TV (and most of the the Encore channels), please give us back the STARZ app so that we can watch the programming on other devices, like Roku and Apple TV, which have superior controls, display in 1080, and include the whole library instead of the limited one on Comcast's On Demand. We have been paying to use this app for years, and you have denied us. Now, we still pay the same price (I pay a la carte) for STARZ, so we deserve to have the full service that the app provides. One reason I kept STARZ is because I like scrolling through the channel guide to choose a show to watch live. The more you take that away, the more likely I, and others, will drop STARZ via Comcast and pay less for better service by subscribing directly.