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Porn channel mistake by Broadstripe on basic cable

For most of us in the Central District we can only use the fabulous Broadstripe for our cable and broadband ISP service. I only have the basic cable service which they give me free with broadband service – no cable box (uses your digital QAM tuner on your digital TV).

Last night while surfing the upper channels I found that 80-1 and 80-2 are now full-on Porn channels. Channel 79 is TVLand and 80-3 is college football ESPN. Nice sandwich there huh? As of thus writing they are still Porn. If you have children and you have basic cable with a digital tv and no cablebox then it is time to make a phone call.

Matt

0 thoughts on “Porn channel mistake by Broadstripe on basic cable

  1. Is there anybody out there with Broadstripe who would be willing to let me come over for an hour or so?

    Thanks,
    DirecTV Subscriber

  2. I don’t care about the porn channels – although it is a bit humorous, but I have found that the Broadstripe service–internet and Cable–is horrible. Frequent internet outages and intermittent tv interference/disruption. Not to mention their customer service when you call is horrible. Has anyone else had the same problems with broadstripe.

  3. They are in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy currently and are trying to restructure. I am all for competition but cable service is the few places where monopolies make sense – the infrastructure for cabling a city are too large to have multiple vendors fight for the customers with other TV sources available through FIOS and satellite. Less customer density would result in lower quality.

    Their TV HD selection is horrific compared to Comcast or DISH etc. And the broadband modem service is sketching many times with what can only be explained as throttling of bandwidth much of the time.

    There is nothing good said about Broadstripe on the AVS forum.

    Not sure how long they will hold on before Comcast can take them over. And with Quest having a stranglehold on telephone service in Seattle you can say goodbye to FIOS as a TV/ISP solution – Verizen can not operate in Seattle.