showtime -east analog is gone

[turbosat]

The day has come, and showtime's gone from G5-24 .

 

[chefwan]

that sucks, Analog. fading fast.

 

[Corrado]

It's been good while it lasted.

 

[Pismire]

They didn't mess around pulling the plug did they.

 

[Diamond Jim]

I can't remember where I read it, NPS site perhaps, but it was announced about 3 weeks ago that March 31st would be the last day.

 

[AntAltMike]

They'd been pressuring us commercial headend operators to move to digital since February of last year. For small system operators, it just can't be done economically. At the only two properties where we were still furnishing Showtime on a per subscription basis, I've arranged to help those residents get full DirecTV subscriptions, which, while it will cost them more, gets them Multichannel Showtime, versus the single, blurry "beeping channel" version that they had up until npw.