Update on Nasa TV

[Techman28]

I know more and more people have responded to the addition of Nasa TV as well as in HD.  I was advised that we may have missed the deadline for this year's channel lineup add's.  I don't have the channel add's for the remainder of the year but wanted to give everyone a heads up on what's going on with this channel. For everyone that still pm's me with wanting the channel I will still submit a ticket regarding the channel addition.

Together with everyone showing they want the channel I'm sure we can get it quicker.

[philhu]

Do you mean 'Adds for the year', as now thru Jun or now-December?

Currently, I keep a sat dish up just to get this channel because Nasa Channel is 'in the clear', I remodulate it to cable channel 124 and insert it in my cable after a ch 123 attenuator.

Works like a champ.

Message Edited by philhu on 03-23-2009 01:38 PM

[matcarl]

Of course he means December, June does not end the "year"

Message Edited by matcarl on 03-23-2009 05:32 PM

[prisaz]

Some companies end their year in June. What in the world does it take to add a channel to the list. This is stupid! Don't our tax dollars pay for it already now.

Message Edited by prisaz on 03-23-2009 05:40 PM

[philhu]

Jeez!

If we have filled up the whole year's HD adds or channel adds, I sure would like to know what channels they are adding over the next 8 months.

Is there a list available?  NASATV is free to all cable companies.  It seems stupid to advertise 'virtually unlimited bandwidth on fiber' and then not put a FREE/PUBLIC channel, even in SD

I would think that Verizon would put up anything and everything they can get!

I know ComedyCentral/AMC hd, etc is a cable company owned channel problem, but they have CSPAN3 for goodness sake, but no NASATV?

Someone at Verizon really has to address the customer concerns in a real/ongoing way, or even me, a great lover of FiOS, will be forced to leave from being left out in the dark.

[Tested]

Techman said we "may have" missed.  I suspect there might still be a way to get it this year.

"This year" could reference a fiscal year.  That might end in June, it might end in September.  It might be the calendar year and end in December. 

I would just like to say thank you to Techman for his efforts.  I'm sure eventually we'll get this channel added. 

I am now curious about what other channels are on the "add" list for this year. 🙂

[elizar]

I too would like to thank techman for his efforts in this regard!

Maybe we could lower our sights a little and ask for a 2 week try out during the upcoming Hubble servicing mission?  You just know that mission is going to make for good TV. They're even bringing an imax camera as part of a ducumentary about the Hubble telescope.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/news/hst_imax.html

[DzWR]

I'm quite interested to see if this happens.  I never got into NASA Tv and I think it would be a great channel to have.  🙂

[CharlesH]

I don't know that much about the channel, but is it in HD? I wanna see the rockets go up in HD! =P

[Carl]

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@Tested wrote:

"This year" could reference a fiscal year.  That might end in June, it might end in September.  It might be the calendar year and end in December. 

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Just checked the Investor Relations portion of the Verizon web site.VZ's fiscal year is the calendar year.