Cablevision will soon roll out 15 new free, high-definition (HD) channels. The additions include Nickelodeon, WE tv, AMC, Animal Planet, The Weather Channel, Travel Channel, FOX News Channel, Discovery Channel, Hallmark Movie Channel and FX.

 

Beginning July 28, these new channels will launch over the course of a five-day period and will be available across Cablevision's entire service area by August 1. The HD customer base has expanded more than 50 percent in the last year more than 1.1 million iO TV customers today have at least one high-definition television and HD-enabled set-top box. Cablevision's high-definition programming line-up has expanded from 23 channels a year ago to 45 today and 60 by the beginning of next month.

 

More than 85 percent of Cablevision's cable customers are iO TV digital cable customers, with nearly 2.7 million iO TV customers with nearly 2.7 million iO TV customers. Customers get up to 360 channels, including 53 premium movie channels, 48 channels of commercial-free digital music with this channel. They also get more than 3,500 titles on demand at all times, an interactive programming guide, 45 high-definition programming services. The customers will also be able to get uniquely valuable and relevant interactive television applications including News 12 Interactive.

 

“With our nation poised to celebrate the holiday that marks our freedom, we thought it was a perfect time to announce even more free HD for our iO TV digital cable customers,” said John Trierweiler (News - Alert), Cablevision's senior vice president of product management. “Free HD has become an important competitive differentiator of our digital cable service, and with these additions iO TV customers will have access to 60 of the best HD channels at no additional cost, including all of the HD games of all nine New York-area professional sports teams.”