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- 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

[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! We only watch it in the evening when we return to the villa, but it will be nice to have some options.