By Clarence Cromwell
Some channels have to go to make room for a better TV lineup for Los Gatos and Saratoga customers, a TCI Cable spokesperson said last week.
Two months after completing the purchase of South Bay CableVision, TCI plans to rearrange programming to put a total of five new channels onto basic cable service here. After Jan. 1, viewers will find Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, History Channel, Home and Garden and the Sci-Fi Channel.
But to make room for the new programming, TCI will have to drop a few channels. Those include the Action Channel, Travel, WGN and Southbay Cable's information channel, the one that helps customers figure out which channel is CNN and which is HBO. Two shop-at-home channels will disappear: QVC2 and Video Marketplace.
Another change will move TBS and the Discovery channel down from the "expanded basic" tier to the less-expensive "basic" tier, said Andrew Johnson, director of communications for TCI.
"What we're trying to do is make our lineup more attractive to a broader base of customers," Johnson said.
This article appeared in the Saratoga News, December 18, 1996.
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