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Minimum Time Warner Cable bill: $8.50/month

December 27th, 2009, 7:20 pm by

Time Warner Cable charges $8.50 for broadcast channels in Seal Beach, CA.Did you know that some people in Orange County can order TV service from Time Warner Cable for $8.50 a month?

This $8.50 monthly fee is for a very select group of local residents: People who live in Leisure World and most of Seal Beach. And it’s people who only need access to ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and other over-the-air channels, which are free if you have a good TV antenna. I’ve listed the channels available with this broadcast TV plan in the chart below on the right.

This plan was reiterated to me during a recent interview with Time Warner’s local executives, Deborah “Debi” Picciolo, president of residential services for the West Region. The topic? Why are cable TV prices so high? More on this later, but Time Warner pointed out that the cheapest plans available for most people is around $20. (Read past stories where the two have answered questions for me here: Time Warner answers some questions.)

So, I looked it up and documented how much Orange County pays for basic broadcast service (see city-by-city price chart below)– a plan presumably intended for folks who get poor TV reception and don’t want to pay the minimum $53+ monthly fee (before taxes) for real cable service. The $8.50 plan is the cheapest in Orange County. Most of the county can get the same TV package for $20. Read the rest of this entry »

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Psssst: Digital cable TV is cheaper than analog cable

December 17th, 2009, 9:22 am by

Time Warner Cable signHere’s a little known fact about cable TV service from Time Warner Cable: Digital cable is cheaper than analog.

In Orange County, Time Warner’s digital cable package includes 200 channels, on-demand video and one special tier of channels (movies, variety, sports, etc.) for $50.95. This is the published rate, not a special promotion. You will need to rent a digital cable box for $6/month.

Basic analog cable, which is $55.50 to $58 per month depending on what city you live in, offers much less. That number shrunk this week as Time Warner moved some of these analog channels (ABC Family, The Weather Channel, TruTV) to digital to make room for more digital services for the majority of its customers. Time Warner has said that 80 percent of its Southern California customers are digital subscribers. Read the rest of this entry »

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AT&T’s official list of Orange County cities getting U-verse TV

July 21st, 2009, 8:13 am by

Where is AT&T's U-verse service?

Readers, I’m heading to my second day of jury duty so posts will be on hold. But here’s something for Orange County readers who are hoping to get AT&T’s alternative TV service, U-verse, in their city.

To supplement an ongoing series of updates as to what happened to the AT&T U-verse rollout in Orange County, the company gave me this updated list of cities where it is building U-verse.

Keep in mind, service may not be available in all the cities yet, but AT&T is working on building the service there. 

Is your city listed? Or is it listed but you still can’t order TV service? Comment below or send me an e-mail and I will try to verify. If you have more information yourself, please share!

More on the U-verse impasse
  1. Aliso Viejo
  2. Anaheim
  3. Brea
  4. Buena Park
  5. Costa Mesa
  6. Fountain Valley
  7. Fullerton
  8. Garden Grove
  9. La Habra
  10. La Palma
  11. Laguna Hills
  12. Laguna Niguel
  13. Mission Viejo
  14. Orange 
  15. Placentia
  16. Rancho Santa Margarita
  17. San Juan Capistrano
  18. Santa Ana
  19. Stanton
  20. Villa Park
  21. Westminster
  22. Yorba Linda

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Where in the world is AT&T’s U-verse?

May 20th, 2008, 2:32 pm by

Someone keeps asking about AT&T’s U-verse TV service. In OC, it celebrates its one-year anniversary today.

The big fuss about this service is that it’s TV from the phone company. Verizon also offers TV service, called FiOS TV.

For OC, U-verse is now available in these cities, or parts thereof: Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Irvine, La Habra, Laguna Niguel, Orange, Placentia, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Tustin, Westminster and Yorba Linda.

That compares to the handful of cities that could subscribe to U-verse last year: Anaheim, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Laguna Niguel, Orange County, Santa Ana and Tustin.

AT&T won’t divulge future spots in Orange County (“Our competitors would lower their prices in preparation,” said a spokeswoman), but it does indeed look like service is expanding.

If you’re wondering why U-verse isn’t in Huntington Beach or other OC spots, the company focuses on its own telephone territory first. There’s still hope for non AT&T customers but U-verse could be a long ways away.

For those outside of OC, other areas with U-verse include:

  • California: San Francisco/Oakland, San Jose/Santa Clara,Riverside
  • Fairfield County, Conn.
  • Chicago
  • Indianapolis
  • St. Louis
  • Kansas City, Kansas
  • Detroit
  • Cleveland
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Texas: Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin

As for Verizon’s FiOS TV, no new cities since last year, according to the company. FiOS is hit and miss in these OC cities: Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Westminster, Garden Grove, Stanton, and certain unincorporated areas.

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