Walt Disney World Resort Hotels to Get New TV Channels

[Wendy]

We are hearing that starting on the 13th March 2012, Walt Disney World Resorts will be introducing new cable TV channels in their resort hotels.

The completion of all Resort Hotels is expected to be completed by the 8th May, but on the day the upgrade takes place the service will be down for about 20 minutes between 10am and 3pm. The channel selections will be available on Channel 17.

The new channels will include the following:


AMC
Bravo
Discovery
Food Network
Fox News
History Channel
HGTV
National Geographic
SyFy
TBS
TLC
TNT
Travel Channel
TV Land



The dates for the upgrades are:




Date

Resort


13th March
Disney’s Port Orleans Resorts


20th March
Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort


15th March
Disney’s Old Key West Resort


22nd March
Disney’s Pop Century Resort


3rd April
Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa


5th April
Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort


10th April
Disney’s All-Star Resorts


12th April
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge


17th April
Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resorts


19th April
Disney’s BoardWalk Inn


24th April
Disney’s Contemporary Resort


26th April
Disney’s Polynesian Resort


1st May
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa


3rd May
Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Resort


8th May
Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground





What do you think about the upgrade of the cable channels or aren’t you really in your room long enough to watch TV?

[MinnieMama]

When we went, we just kept it on the Disney Parks channel that comes on-:happybounce: I guess we were so excited, that's all we wanted to know about. And we were usually not in the room that much.

[Wendy]

I've only ever stayed on site once, and we hardly watched any TV and if we had the Disney Parks Channel on and Stacey (I think that's her name) came on we used to hit the mute button :lol: :lol:

[robertcraig]

I only watch the news and weather when i am at disney too busy having a good time

[Britchick]

NBC, CNN and weather channel for me. If in doubt put the weather channel on i say!

[Tink]

YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! Food Network and HGTV! :happybounce: We only watch it in the evening when we return to the villa, but it will be nice to have some options.