Oceanic Time Warner

[Konaguy]

I was watching Pacific Business News with Howard Dicus tonight.
Nate Smith of Oceanic was on talking about new services etc.
It was rather amazing OTW has 200,000 digital cable customers (400,000
overall)and 200,000 Internet customers.

[anapuni808]

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they basically have no competition except for the "dish" networks here & most of us either can't afford those or our landlords won't allow them. Those numbers don't surprise me at all. It will be interesting if Hawn TelCom gets their service going to see if it will make any difference in Oceanic's pricing.

[Media Amigo]

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The state of Hawaii has the highest cable penetration of any state in the nation with over 95% of households having cable.

[foolish heart]

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Makes sense to me, most of us Hawaii folks love our tvs.

Sports is huge here too.

Not much to do on an island.

[mel]

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If you live in a condo, there is usually only 1 choice you can have for a TV provider. In my building that is only Oceanic/Time Warner, unless you want to go with the building's own antenna system which is subject to ghosting on several channels due to Honolulu's urban landscape (too many buildings in the way of over air TV signals).

[kimo55]

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Not much to do on an island.

wow. sound like someone is too accustomed to driving for miles in a straight line and ending up at dizzyland.

[lurkah]

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wow. sound like someone is too accustomed to driving for miles in a straight line and ending up at dizzyland.

Or it could also sound like someone who doesn't occupy most of their spare time going bar hopping and listening to music loud enough to cause premature deafness. Only 24 hours in a day, right?

If the only choices for watching TV in Hawaii are either through a "ghosty" antenna setup or OTW's clear reception and extensive channel selections, then those numbers shouldn't be surprising at all.

[timkona]

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DISH Network is great. Landlords cannot prevent you from putting a dish on a home or on the balcony of your condo, if it don't stick out.

[tutusue]

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[...] Not much to do on an island.

Interesting observation! And, I respectfully disagree with you.

[Leo Lakio]

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DISH Network is great.

Hey, Tim? You ever listen to the music channels available on your Dish system? I program a bunch of 'em, including the Hawaiian one (ch. 981, I think.)

[Konaguy]

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In regards to HawTel IPTV application to the DCCA-CATV division

http://www.hawaii.gov/dcca/areas/cat...waiian_telcom/

AT&T's IPTV problems
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=101056

[Palolo Joe]

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Not much to do on an island.

Not much to do?

http://starbulletin.com/calendars/weekend.html

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/current/en/tgifcal

http://honoluluweekly.com/calendar/

[Kalihiboy]

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Mel is right, you dont have much of a choice w/o cable when I first moved here I lived by Beretania Foodland, which is not far from all the stations (i.e. KITV/KGMB/KHON), let's say within a mile or so from them. Only station I could receive halfway decent was KHON, while the others were nearly complete snow.
If I wanted to watch ANY form of tv I simply had to pay for cable. Back then the basic cable was like 25 bucks or so, now I hear its close to 40 bucks right?

I dont know since I went digital a few years ago and got the entire package with the phone/internet/digital tv, I dont know what I pay for each, but its alot of money like 170 bucks!!! Part of its a tax write-off for me since I need the internet to work on.

On another note despite being 5 hours behind time zone wise, I'd sure love for Oceanic to pick up WGN out of Chicago, I was born and raised in Chicago and sure would love to see the Cubbies (well not this season!), local news and other programming from the superstation I grew up with as a kid.

KalihiBoy

[Konaguy]

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On another note despite being 5 hours behind time zone wise, I'd sure love for Oceanic to pick up WGN out of Chicago, I was born and raised in Chicago and sure would love to see the Cubbies (well not this season!), local news and other programming from the super station I grew up with as a kid.

I remember reading Oceanic's FAQ a long time ago (long since removed).
Evidently these super stations cost a lot of money in access fees. Also
if lets say Wheel of Fortune gets shown on WGN, since I believe KHON
owns the rights to show it here, Oceanic would have to black out the
WGN televised Wheel of Fortune.

[timkona]

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Leo, Yes, Totally !! In fact, by far more than the total minutes we spend looking at TV.

We like The Pulse, Classical Favorites, Roadhouse, Outlaw Country, Kid Tunes, Blues, and a couple others.....but we pretty much listen to ALL of them now and then.

I don't even know if the cable has a lot of music channels. But Dish has at least 50 or more. Makes chores easier when the music is good.