Update: Get HBO for free on Sunday
January 16th, 2009, 1:06 pm · 7 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
As an update to a prior post about Time Warner Cable offering free HBO on Sunday for an inauguration special, several other TV services now plan to do the same thing.
The HBO event, called “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial,” is exclusive to HBO. The main event starts at 11:30 a.m. California time, with a rebroadcast at 7 p.m ET and PT. It’s also available online at HBO.com during those times.
Here are the TV companies that plan to offer HBO for free on Sunday and beyond.
U-Verse, the TV service from AT&T, will offer HBO for free all day Sunday until midnight. HBO is on Channel 802. U-Verse also plans to send a text message on Saturday to U-verse customers who opted to receive U-verse news mobile alerts.
FiOS, the TV service from Verizon, is offering free HBO to users on channel 400.
DISH Networks will make HBO free during the 11:30 a.m. concert and 7 p.m. rebroadcast. Tune into channel 300 (HBO East) or Channel 303 (HBO West). As a bonus, customers of its 100-channel plan will get free access to a screen that shows mini screens of six channels simultaneously during Tuesday’s inaugeration ceremoney.
DirecTV does one better. It is offering free HBO today through Jan. 18 on Channels 70, 501 and 504. On Sunday, of course, the HBO special will begin broadcasting at 11:30 a.m. And, of course, DirecTV offers a handy link for customers to record the special on a DVR.
And as mentioned yesterday, Time Warner Cable. Here are details for digital cable customers who don’t already get HBO:
- HBO East, Channel 504
- HBO HD East HD, Channel 481
- HBO West, Channel 503
- HBO HD West, Channels 427 & 502
- HBO Latino, Channel 511 (starts at 2 p.m. because of a tape delay)
Cox Communications customers in Orange County are out of luck on the HBO freebie. While Cox customers in other parts of the country will get HBO free on Sunday, the local branch doesn’t plan to offer the show for free.
Check out the OC Register’s special Obama Transition section:
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DO NOT LISTEN TO WHAT BARACK OBAMA SAYS, BUT CAREFULLY WATCH WHAT HE DOES !!!
Barack Obama is the greatest liar in history (no wonder he is an excellent lawyer!) During his campaign, he told lots of hope in future for America if he was elected, but now he warns Americans of oncoming darker economy and not to put too much hope in his promises. He promises a big plan to reduce budget deficit while his inauguration ceremony this January will be the most costly in history (50 millions) as well as his presidential campaign (600 millions), which was much more than his opponent John McCain’s. He swears to clean up Washington DC, but he failed to first clean up his homestate Illinois, one of the most corrupted state with the scandal of Governor Rod Blagojevich, who greatly helped Obama to win his state senate seat in 1996, 1998, and 2002. And his favorite slogan is “Yes, we can”, yet he himself cannot quit smoking at all !!!
Thank you HBO for allowing viewers to have access to this celebration. And to you Tim Nguyen, SHUT UP. Bush and his cronies got us into this mess and it will take time to begin to see progress move this economy. It is a shame a democrat has to clean up this mess after a BUSH and the republicians got us here. Get over it, your candidate lost!! CHANGE HAS COME, THANK GOD!!!
Gina…ah, it was Clinton that started the mess.
Tim, Tim, Tim – This is Jim. Your party had it’s turn if screwing up our country. I’ll give you a “A” for that. Now let us pick up the pieces from their mess.
Tim – Happy New Year Tim!
It’s a terrible shame that Cox would not honor the chance to show the HBO presentation to its customers. How un-American!
Great! Now they tell me!
Thanks to Totally Worthless Crap for keeping us in the dark!
Oh well at least they didnt put football on pay per view
(not yet anyway)
There are more chances to watch the concert. HBO is reshowing the concert TODAY at 1pm and 9:30pm. Or watch it online, go to hbo.com, click on box that says “CATCH OUR ENCORE PRESENTATION”, then click on “WATCH IT NOW”.