Fios new .tv channels - missing from guide

They were added here -- as "LOOR558", etc. No real guide data. I finally sent in two "Incorrect Channels" reports (since you can only do three channels per report) a few minutes ago, coincidentally.

However, while Verizon's own STBs have the proper names for these channels, even they don't have program data for them. So I don't expect much.

 

I don't think program guide data exists for those channels yet, but you should file a lineup change report to request the correct channel names.

 

I submitted two separate online forms on 5/25 and they have yet to be worked for the 6 new Fios TV Channels!!! If the friggin' online form isn't working or flat out being ignored, then Tivo needs to deactivate the page, otherwise they need to appropriate the necessary resources to work the tickets or properly notify their paying customers!!!!

This has me jacked as I have been a loyal customer for quite some time and every time I end up using the online form, I also have to call to report the change, which ultimately takes 20 minutes or so, then their clock resets to 3 to 5 business days..... Pathetic!!!

As for the Verizon boxes, they were in fact updated timely as the 1 I have in addition to my 6 Tivo units, was updated right away!!!

 

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There is guide data on FIOS DVR's, just not Tivo.

Once again, Tivo blows it with guide updates.

I'm petrified of 6/12... I use OTS for my locals, just because I like it better than FIOS (I think they're identical, but OTA is 100% reliable).

Anyway, 6/12 I predict will be another Tivo disaster... Just like with the initial FIOS channel realignment (where Tivo also had tons of notice, everyone else was updated including Tribune, and it took Tivo weeks in some cases to get things right).

 

I think this is a unusual situation. These aren't new channels that existed before that are being added to FIOS, these are NEW channels that have never existed before. If you check Zap2it.com they are listed as LOOR also. That means that Tribune company still doesn't have the callsigns, etc...

Until the originator of the channels and Verizon get Tribune up to speed, there is nothing that Tivo can do.

 

Yeah yeah...

But it doesn't change how Tivo royally screwed up the FIO channel realignment and HD rollout. It was in Zap2It, sometimes weeks before Tivo updated the markets.

Grrr... Keep your damn jack! (reference to an old joke)

 

Evidence suggest Verizon has screwed this up, not TiVo. The other data provider, TV Guide, does not have data for these channels either.

 

Can somebody contact Tribune to expedite this issue??? I don't have a link or contact point to affect this situation, so if a Mod, Tivo/Verizon/Tribune employee monitoring this thread could do so and update the Community, it would be greatly appreciate by all Verizon Fios TV Customers using Tivo!!!

 

You can submit a lineup report to www.tivo.com/lineup

You can also contact Tribune more or less directly yourself by reporting the lineup issue to zap2it.com -- Tribune runs that site.

 

I guess you've never had a station with a transmitter problem go dark for OTA. And with their Fiber feed to the local cable companies they are still able to broadcast, even while their OTA signal is down.

 

You're not missing anything from not having guide data for these channels. Think QVC or HSN...

 

Here in Maryland on VHO4, I have the names listed right, but all data is "to be announced".

 

Presumably the names are "right" because TiVo hasn't actually added the channels to their guide data for your area yet, and you're getting the names straight from the CableCard. That's what happened here, too.

 

Per my earlier post, I already submitted a ticket with Tivo..... Also, why should I as the paying customer have to jump through hoops with a company (Tribune) that I have no business relationship, when I am paying Tivo to handle that support work???

 

Great - I appreciate you taking the bull by the horns and ramrodding this through!!!

 

Nope, never in the DC/metro area. And I'm not totally sure they are all fiber-fed to FIOS. I think some are still OTA to FIOS, then fiber. I know some are still like this with Comcast.

 

I gave you that information because you asked, and I quote:

Don't ask questions if you don't want the answers.