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Posted on: Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Winter Olympics: An overload of channels


Advertiser Staff

If you happen to channel surf during the month of February, chances are you'll stumble across an Olympic channel.

How could you avoid it?

There will be about 25 channels that will be telecasting the Winter Games, which will be held from Feb. 12 to 28.
Here are the channels, as provided by Time Warner Oceanic, which decided to create channels and cluster them together especially for these games.

OLYMPIC NETWORKS

Listed by analog / Digital / High-definition-*
KHNL 8 / 008, 088, 205 / 1008, 1205
CNBC 39 / 116, 204 / 1116, 1204
MSNBC 38 / 107, 203 / 1107, 1203
USA 29 / 555, 202 / 1555, 1202
HDUNI 1605, 1206 (high definition only)
*—Box required

DIGITAL CHANNELS

(Grouped together for easy channel surfing)
Channel 201 — 2010 Olympic Showcase
Channel 202 — USA (Delayed during Olympics)
Channel 203 — MSNBC
Channel 204 — CNBC (live noon-midnight, replay midnight-noon)
Channel 205 — KHNL
Channel 207 — OLVOD (Olympic Video On Demand)

HIGH DEFINITION CHANNELS (BOX REQUIRED)

(Grouped together for easy channel surfing)
Channel 1201 — HD 2010 Olympic Showcase
Channel 1202 — HDUSA (USA Network)
Channel 1203 — HMSNB (MSNBC Network)
Channel 1204 — HCNBC (CNBC Network)
Channel 1205 — HKHNL (Same as ch. 1008)
Channel 1206 — HDUNI (Same as ch. 1605)
Channel 1207 — HOVOD (Olympic Video On Demand)