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Comcast Network
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| CN8: The Comcast Network | |
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| Type | cable television network |
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| Country | United States |
| Availability | Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the Northeastern United States |
| Owner | Comcast |
| Website | www.cn8.tv |
The Comcast Network (also known as CN8) is a cable television station that is transmitted from Maine to Virginia on Comcast cable systems. Key markets include New England, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Denver, Detroit and Chicago have their local channels that use the Comcast branding.
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The flagship show is It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle, which has been on the air for over 10 years of broadcasts; its host is the wife of senior Comcast executive Michael Doyle. It also features the dating show Dating on Demand, which encourages viewers to take advantage of the on-demand function of digital cable. Another show in the CN8 lineup is Seeking Solutions with Suzanne, a show that focuses on issues pertaining to seniors.
Other shows broadcast on CN8 include:
- American Builder with Brian Gurry
- Art Fennell Reports
- Backstage with Barry Nolan
- Comcast Comedy Spotlight
- Caucus NJ (broadcast only in New Jersey)
- Christina Cooks
- Flavors of America
- The Fretz Kitchen
- ITV with Donald Barrett
- Larry Kane: Voice Of Reason
- Let's Cook with Paul Dillon
- Money Matters Today with Mary Caraccioli
- New England Newsmakers with Sarah Zapp (broadcast only in the New England region)
- One on One with Steve Adubato
- Out of Bounds with Gregg Murphy
- Smooth Jazz TV
- Your Morning with Connie Colla and Greg Coy
CN8 carries lots of regional High School and college sports. CN8-Mid Atlantic carries MISL soccer games for the Philadelphia Kixx as well as select minor league baseball games, generally from the Eastern League.
CN8-New England carries some sports events (mostly men's hockey games) of Boston University and in the past has carried coverage of the Pawtucket Red Sox (minor-league baseball) produced by Cox Sports Television in Rhode Island, thus making "Pawsox" games available to viewers in the Boston area.
CN8-Mid-Atlantic carries the "overflow" games when at least two of the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Flyers, or Philadelphia 76ers play at the same time when one of the games is scheduled to air on Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia.
In New England, CN8 has sometimes broadcast "overflow" programming from the New England Sports Network (NESN) when two events that NESN had the broadcast rights to (as an example: a playoff game of the Boston Bruins hockey team and an early-season game of the Boston Red Sox baseball team) both occur at the same time. One game is on NESN; the other goes onto CN8.
Like other local cable networks in the United States, CN8 is not available on satellite systems, particularly DirecTV and Dish Network. CN8, along with similar networks like NY1 and News 12, was created to add value to cable networks over satellite systems.
The area where this decision raises the most controversy is with sports. Lawmakers have put pressure on Comcast to make the sports contents that they cover, particularly on sister network CSN Philadelphia, available to satellite operators. CN8 is not available on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, which covers many sporting events, because their internal cable system is satellite based.
Another controversy took place when CN8 expanded to New England. At the time, Comcast had a studio in Brookline, Massachusetts that was shared by the company for local-origination programming, and Brookline Access Television (BAT), the local public-access cable channel in that town. BAT was kicked out of that studio, and it resulted in Comcast getting bad publicity in a local newspaper. Eventually, BAT built its own separate studio elsewhere in the town while the former studio shared by Comcast and BAT is now used full-time by CN8, the major (but not the only) studio facility used by CN8 in New England.
Comcast's Chicago cable systems carry a different Comcast Network, unrelated to CN8. It is the home of the AHL Chicago Wolves.
A different Comcast television network airs in the Detroit area as a small regional sports network, Comcast Local (CL).
- Main article: Comcast Entertainment Television
A Comcast local channel similar to CN8 is available in the Denver area, Comcast Entertainment Television (CET).
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