Re: Oceanic Time Warner

Originally Posted by
Honoruru
Well, I was wrong. It seems the two just changed channel numbers. I thought OC Sports would be the pay-per-view channel because after the switch, Channel 16 was not showing anything. It was just blank. But yesterday, they began to show re-runs of UH games.
Actually, I was a little skeptical about your previous post. I would have been most surprised to see Oceanic suddenly make the live UH sports PPV channel available on the analog tier. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that all premium, VOD, and PPV channels are only available to digital subscribers.
And just to make it clear, the OC Sports channel on the analog lineup is NOT the PPV channel. It is merely an outlet that shows either taped broadcasts or live events (i.e. baseball, soccer, etc.) that are not PPV.

Originally Posted by
Honoruru
And the first game against #1 USC is on Fox Sports, not ESPN. Furthermore, I looked at the 12 game schedule, and six of those games are already slated to be televised by entities other than Oceanic, mostly by CBS Sports, which holds the rights for the Mountain West Conference. So it seems the multi-million dollar contract with UH might be in jeopardy.
The exact dollar figures will probably be prorated accordingly. I don't think the entire UH-OTW agreement is in jeopardy.

Originally Posted by
Honoruru
The thing that gets me is that the channel switch was so sudden and somewhat mysterious.
What gets me is OTW's plan to carryover the OC16 name over to channel 12, even though it will no longer be on analog channel 16. Reminds me of what OTA viewers were probably thinking when KHNL rebranded themselves as "News 8," even though they were still channel 13 on the VHF band.
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