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Easy Listening Gone???

The Easy Listening music channel seems to have suddenly disappeared from the Verizon Fios Burlington MA channel lineup. It has been on channel 1838, but today I find that although next to the channel number in the Guide it says "MCeasy", the program listed and playing is MC Tropicales. If Verizon is no longer offering Easy Listening, I guess it is time to switch to Comcast.

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monamijj

I agree. I see the lineup has changed, and that new channels have been added. But there is no mention of the Easy Listening station being removed. Was this a Verizon FIOS decision not to include this channel in their lineup any longer?

mcgpgh

I miss easy listening also...this morning I asked a friend who has Comcast to check and she still has it in her MC lineup...you're right...one more reason to move on over

sangs1

Check messages on your DVR or STB. I received a message about music channel changes a while ago. (And would you really change providers based on the Music Choice channels? Wow.)

mcgpgh

@ sangs....I work out of my home and have it on all day...there are no vocals, just instrumentals, so easy to concentrate on my work...so, yes, I would change.

sangs1

You are one committed "Easy Listening" music listener. 😄

pxhop

Well, for years now, I always have the TV on when I'm home, and most of the time I'm listening to Easy Listening instead of music on the radio or CDs. No annoying ads, don't have to change CDs. It was great!... right up until this morning when Verizon pulled the rug out from under my feet! And no, I don't see Easy Listening listed in the list of music channel changes in the Messages on my DVR. And it still says "MC Easy" next to the channel number, but it's not. I'm hoping that the removal of Easy Listening was a mistake and it will be back...(?)

walt178

@mcgpgh wrote:
@ sangs....I work out of my home and have it on all day...there are no vocals, just instrumentals, so easy to concentrate on my work...so, yes, I would change.

Check out Soundscapes. Channel 1842 in my area.

patscheer97

I was horrified this morning when I put it on for me and my dog to ease into the morning and it wasn't there! I just checked out music choice website and they didn't eliminate it, yet it looks like Verizon hasn't increase the music choice channels to 50! I have nothing on my channel options after "blues" yet, according to music choice, we should see Singers & Swing, (our) Easy Listening, Classical Masterpieces and Light Classical. All the good ones, of course no where to be found. Can we get Verizon to add these???

monamijj

Ok, I checked the FIOS listings, and the new channel assigned to the MC Easy Listening channel is 1847. The problem is that my channel selection stops at 1845. What the heck?

walt178

Good news! Easy Listening is now available. CH 1847

sangs1

@monamijj wrote:
Ok, I checked the FIOS listings, and the new channel assigned to the MC Easy Listening channel is 1847. The problem is that my channel selection stops at 1845. What the heck?

In your "Favorites" list or the "All Channels" list? I have 1847 here.

monamijj

Update: I spoke to an online Verizon (third one this morning). He reloaded the channel lineup, so my channel guide now goes all the way up to 1849. He said that has to be completed by a Verizon rep, cannot execute this action yourself (note: I was able to use the channel up button to get to this station, but the info display didn't display anything).

Channel 1847 does show Easy Listening on the channel guide. The bad news: It is not Easy Listening, but rather Spanish music. Not what I was expecting. In fact, channels 1846-1849 are all Spanish Music, but the channel guide does not support this.

The Verizon rep I spoke to is reporting this issue to their Support Team. Hopefully they will have all the Music Channels correctly mapped soon.

patscheer97

i just spoke with a Verizon rep also... he said the new line up should have Easy Listening on 1847 as someone else said, even though my box didn't show anything beyond 1845 this morning. I'll try when i get home and hopefully we'll have good news and our Easy Listening channel & Classical, and all the other goodies back!

pxhop

Well, Vz seems to be having a tough time getting their music channels straightened out today. All day I couldn't find Easy Listening anywhere, although it was listed in the Guide as 1847 but wasn't there. A few minutes ago I found it on 1848 where Classical Masterpieces is supposed to be, per the Guide. Now, a few minutes later, Easy Listening is on 1847 like the guide says. Good grief! At least it's back. I hope this shell game is over.

patscheer97

I've got it back now... wasn't there this morning... YAY! now i have to reprogram my favorites and hopefully they won't do this again for a long time!

Smiley Happy

hallrk

It would have been nice if FIOS had told us they had shuffled the music channels around? I was trying to find the Holiday music channel yesterday and it had been moved. I found it fairly quickly but still a quick e-mail should have been sent out to notify the subscribers.

tns2

Most of the reshuffling was done by MC, although the actual channel assignments were Verizon's. I know the message that went out made it clear that lots of realignment was occurring with the MC channels, and I don't think it gave all but a few highlights of those changes.

film111

Sadly. Classic Alternative is gone...permanently.

Johanna33

Where has it gone

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