WHY IS COMCAST CHANGING TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES TO SPORTS PACKAGE IN OCTOBER?

90% of customers watch less than 2 movies a month..... I find that hard to believe.... did Comcast forget to include all the retired senior citizens in their study, the one's  who love old movies??  You claim the move was to generate more value for your customers, but I really wonder if it was to create more value for Comcast.   Moving it to a "Sports Package," since when does a classic movie channel have any business being in a "Sports Package?"  I noticed you changed the name of the package from a "Sports Package" to a "Sports and Entertainment Package."  Nice forethought Comcast, did you think we wouldn't pick-up on your  guile,  deceit?  Am I angry and upset at this move, YES, I am.  Apart from the local news channels I only watch and enjoy about a dozen channels per month even though we have the Select package of 210+ channels.  It was bad enough that you kept stepping all over us and hiking the price up every month to parallel that of a car payment!  As far as I can remember TCM was part of the base or limited package, ever since the early 1970's, when we first subscribed to Comcast upon institution in CT,  and the only movie channel in the line-up dedicated classic movies and one of the reasons we subscribed to the package.  I read on one of your websites that customer satisfaction was first and foremost to you. is this the way you treat loyal customer's who helped you build the company and have never missed a payment since the 1970's, when I might add that the monthly fee was $9.00, or was it $12.00, a month!  Seems like the upper echelon at Comcast don't care who they step on as long as it improves their market share.  Maybe this is why their still number 2 in this respect.......

I was surprised to find that TCM is now a subscription service and even more surprised to see it lumped into a sports subscription package.

What gives with that Xfinity?

I used to be able to watch movies on TMC.  Now all of a sudden I get a message saying that I need to buy a subscription to watch TMC.  The monthly bill goes up, the services go down.  The Xfinity way, I suppose.  When is Xfinity going to let us pick and choose the exact channels we want to watch?  I don't watch much TV - news, MASH reruns, NHRA drag racing, and old movies.  Now you have taken one of my choices away, and all for the amazing price of $225 a month!

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Give me my TCM back - why ; claim low viewership and then put TCM in a Premium Package. It's Business 101 - you don't put lesser demand channels (as you claim with TCM) in a Sports Package with NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB programming which clearly have a high demand; thus requiring premium cost to the consumer. - no response is need; unless you're prepared to turn my TCM back on!

I am so frustrated that I'm paying over 200.00 a month to Comcast and they now inform me I have to pay 10.00 more a month for TCM.  I am considering my options here instead of XFInity.

Why did you remove the TCM channel?   You can only get it now by buying the Sport Package and that stinks.  Do not watch sport channels and like the old classic movies.   I guess this another reason to go to the streaming channels.  

Cut and pasted from "Comcast Agreement for Residential Services" section 4 "Changes to Service" states.... 

"If any material change negatively affects your Service(s), you have the right to cancel your Service(s). Your continued receipt of the Service(s) for more than 30 days after the change, however, will constitute your acceptance of the change."

So you don't scare me with your cancellation fees Comcast...........  We've only had Xfinity for a few months and were actually enjoying the service until you dropped TCM the the basic preferred package.  Reeks of  "Switch and Bait."  I guess you had to get your customers back from Frontier with low introductory rates and then drop a popular basic tiered channel only making it available through the purchase of another package to regain the loss due to the low introductory rates.... Hints of Extortion.  There should be laws.  I feel like writing to the FCC about your unethical practices.  And you can't tell me that TCM is an unpopular station, it's expanding all over the World, even China.......  

Whose dumb idea was it to take TCM out of my line up of channels of which I already pay a fortune.  I believe you did this to try to get more people to subscribe to the sports package which is ridiculous.  How many women do you think are going to subscribe to a sports package to be able to watch TCM.  All Comcast is doing with these ridiculous changes like deleting several Cinemax channels to 1 Hitz channel and now moving TCM to the sports package is pushing people to find other TV options, moving them away from cable all together.

This is the last straw!

I will happily pay $20 more  month to another company other than Comcast. 

A classic movie station that is paired with a sports package? That now we have to pay to watch black and white movies. When I can stream for free on You Tube! 

Yeah this makes sense for the Stockholders!