CLOO CHANNEL 186

[JUSTINBEAVER]

I need to know why VerizonFios is removing Cloo Channel from the line up today August 15, 2014

[beach45]

It's one of the reasons why I purchased Verizon Fios too. I am so angry! There's no explanation, no survey of customers, nothing.  I really wish they would put it back!

[Jo3y_21]

This is crazy!! I come home after a long day at work and i'm looking for CLOO to watch and it wasn't there!!! Whyyyyyy??!!! It's the only station other than USA that I can count on to watch my re-runs of NCIS and Law and Order: SVU. Bring back CLOO!!

[bluedevil2002]

There was a message on the STB about this. And as several people have said, everything on the channel is available through other means, including DVD.

[Maxluv]

I must have missed that information because for sure this morning i go to watch Law n order Criminal Intent and couldn't, thought something was wrong with my TV.  Yes sure you can watch some of the shows on other channels, or Netflix, or whichever, that isnt the point.. the point is this is the USA we should have got a vote    What's next TVLAND? they play mostly all repeats but in this day its good to watch the old stuff.

[HokieDave]

Umm ... you do know that companies are not a democracy, right?  If you don't like the service a company offers, your "vote" is to not do business with them.

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@Maxluv wrote:

the point is this is the USA we should have got a vote

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[bluedevil2002]

I think the ratings might have been the vote.

[wrjab]

My wife and I are extremely unhappy that you have removed the CLOO channel - when there was nothing else we wanted to watch, we would find that CLOO would give us something to pass an hour or two.  We really want it back!

[palvmba]

I agree with several on thie board.  I've stuck with FIOS because of the CLOO channel. I don't watch sports or any of the other junk shows!  Bring it back!

[ArmyWife722]

 I have to say I am extremely unhappy about Verizon once again deciding it was going to pull a channel without letting their customers know ahead of time. I switched to the higher tier package in order to get Cloo and another channel, which I might add I had at the lower tier but Verizon chose to pull it from the lower tier and only make it available to the higher tier customers. And with that I was still in the middle of the 2 yr agreement with them, so how is it they can just pull a channel from my tier and make it only available in the higher tier? Greed that's how, pure and utter greed. It's not enough I have a triple packaeg for my home, I also have cell service through verizon and they are still not satisfied that want more money from mr so they pull some of my fav channels and only make them avail at a higher tier. Now this...completely pulling a channel is ridiculous and you can't tell me it's because of money, Verizon is a multi billion dollar company and I doubt one channel with low ratings is going to put them under!! Verizon I ask that you think of your customers before you think of your pockets, because it is after all us who is paying your salaries and it is us who allows you to have your jobs. So please BRING BACK CLOO...............another thought you may want to consider a package where a customer pays for "X" number of channels and they pick the channels they want, because God knows I don't need 30 news channels or sports channels and so on. Make an A-la carte package. Just a thought.

[nyrngrs694]

Came home from a miserable day at work. Was looking forward to monk, or house, or burn notice or anything that doesn't resemble real housewives, or dance moms, or the bachelor, or honey freakin boo boo only to find that verizon no long has cloo!!! This stinks. I don't watch much tv, but when I do, it's cloo. Get it together verizon.

[DirtLady]

weird...CLOO still showed up when I search for SVU but it could switch to the channel. please bring the channel back. I signed a 2-yr contract. is this bait & switch?

[roaddogg1]

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@DirtLady wrote:
weird...CLOO still showed up when I search for SVU but it could switch to the channel. please bring the channel back. I signed a 2-yr contract. is this bait & switch?

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No it's not bait and switch. If you read your terms of service (and all providers are the same way) it says they can add, change, remove channels/packages at anytime.

[HokieDave]

Universal HD runs Monk, Burn Notice, and House constantly.   And unlike Cloo, it runs them in HD.

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@nyrngrs694 wrote:
Came home from a miserable day at work. Was looking forward to monk, or house, or burn notice or anything that doesn't resemble real housewives, or dance moms, or the bachelor, or honey freakin boo boo only to find that verizon no long has cloo!!! This stinks. I don't watch much tv, but when I do, it's cloo. Get it together verizon.

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[roaddogg1]

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@HokieDave wrote:

Universal HD runs Monk, Burn Notice, and House constantly.   And unlike Cloo, it runs them in HD.

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Bingo and much more shows then the what 4 they showed on Cloo? http://www.universalhd.com/Series/

[MarilynRae]

Universal HD is being cancelled, too. 

[tns2]

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@MarilynRae wrote:

Universal HD is being cancelled, too. 

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Universal Hd is not being canceled.  However it will only be available in the Ultimate package.

[roaddogg1]

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@MarilynRae wrote:

Universal HD is being cancelled, too. 

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Where did you see this information? In some markets it is being removed from Extreme HD and will only be in Ultimate HD, but it's not going all together.

I understand the people on here liked Cloo, but real world numbers say the channel just wasnt that popular and part of the reason is because it wasnt in HD. I'm beating NBCUniversal/Comcast wanted more money to keep carrying the channel (contract was probably up) and Verizon said no so the channel was dropped. This is usually the case, but who really knows the exact reason. A lot of networks require channels to be carried as part of a package deal. They either carry all or none. Cloo was not one of them.

[beckek]

I just called Verizon to log my complaint.  It can't hurt if more people call.

Though I have to admit, it's probably time to research another cable provider, especially after they added the 99 cents admin charge a couple of month ago. That was a nice end around to my contract.

[Chown]

Put CLOO BACK ON! I watch it all the time.

[sugie1]

Those who like mysteries enjoyed Cloo. Removing the channel could have something to do with it being owned by NBC, Universal and Comcast. Plan to find out. Cloo showed reruns of some of television's best dramas, including NCIS. Funny thing is, I switched to Verizon because it had more channels. Comcast didn't even carry Cloo when I switched about a year and a half ago. The more I think about this, the more I believe it's a Comcast issue. The two cable outlets still compete on some levels you know.

[TampaTopCat]

And AJ-TV (al jeserra, excuse my spelling, don't care) has better ratings?

Bandwidth? there's so many junk infomercial channels, shopping channels, and propaganda channels on ALL provider lineups, be they traditional cable, satellite, whatever.

CLOO is part of the Comcast/NBC/Universal lineup, - USA, SiFi, U-HD, to name a few; biggest player in the ring. so you want to bet this is all a power play somewhere, and either more channels from that stable will start to disappear, or who knows.

CLOO is still in Direct-TV 308.

I had been waiting for it to go HD; it was one of my favorites, that had no overload of reality tv or informercials. Just good old TV.