Time Warner adding more HD premiums, moving Style to digital cable

While Time Warner Cable plans to add a few new premium HD channels soon, they are also moving one channel from standard cable to digital in March.

According to the legal notifications page on their website, Time Warner is looking to add Showtime's Showcase channel in HD, as well as HBO's Signature HD and Comedy HD channels.  No date is given for the planned additions.  This follows the notification that Time Warner would soon also be adding Viacom's slate of high-definition networks including Comedy Central and MTV.

As of March 16th, Style will move out of channel 59 on the standard cable tier into the digital variety package.  No reason is given for the change.  On March 31st, Movies On Demand Classics will be renamed "Favorites," and the Action, Comedy and Drama movies-on-demand channels will be discontinued.

Also of note in their most recent legal notification is a hint that contract negotiations with WBAY are on the horizon, and their three digital channels all have the potential of being affected.  No word on whether there is a real danger of losing WBAY on Time Warner, as was the case in December 2008 between WBAY and DISH Network.

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TWC Legal Notifications