Well, I just spoke with a supervisor at customer service. It was explained to me that the newly added channels are considered to be premium channels by Voom, and that is why they are in the high-end tier. To clarify, I asked, "So Voom views these channels the same as HBO and Showtime?" the answer was "Yes" - something they could not actually further justify beyond the fact that they view them the same. I also asked if this means that future channel additions would only be added to the highest tier and was told that they didn't know, but confirmed that it was possible. Of course, the supervisor also told me that with his local cable company in Spokane, he can only get channels such as ESPN by subscribing to their package containing all of the premium movie channels. Unless I missed one, it looks like Spokane has Comcast (did have GPACable, but that site forwards to Comcast, so I imagine was taken over) which does not require this level of package for receiving ESPN. I also specifically asked about BBCA, but of course he could not tell me whether or not that would be in the high-end tier or not. No mention of the possibility of a middle tier (which doesn't really mean anything).
