WASHINGTON — Four automakers from three continents have struck a deal with California to produce more fuel-efficient cars for their US fleets in coming years, undercutting one of the Trump administration’s most aggressive climate policy rollbacks.
The compromise between the California Air Resources Board and Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, and BMW of North America came after weeks of secret negotiations and could shape future US vehicle production, even as White House officials aim to relax gas mileage standards for the nation’s cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs.
Mary Nichols, California’s top air pollution regulator, said in an interview Wednesday that she sees the agreement as a potential ‘‘olive branch’’ to the Trump administration and hopes it joins the deal, which she said gives automakers flexibility in meeting emissions goals without the ‘‘massive backsliding’’ contained in the White House proposal.
In a joint statement, the four automakers said their decision to hash out a deal with California was driven by a need for predictability, as well as a desire to reduce compliance costs, keep vehicles affordable for customers, and be good environmental stewards.
The deal comes as the Trump administration is working to finalize a huge regulatory rollback that would freeze mileage requirements for cars and light trucks next fall at about 37 miles per gallon on average, rather than raising them over time to about 51 mpg for 2025 models — the level to which the industry and government agreed during the Obama administration. The proposal would also revoke California’s long-standing authority to set its own rules under the Clean Air Act, a practice the federal government has sanctioned for decades.
The White House argues that more lenient standards would lower the sticker price of vehicles and encourage Americans to buy newer, safer cars. But California has vowed to enforce stricter requirements to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and the auto industry itself has implored the Trump administration to try to find common ground with California.
Trump officials quickly rejected the idea of embracing the new deal as a blueprint for federal mileage goals, and said it was pressing ahead with its rollback.
‘‘The federal government, not a single state, should set this standard,’’ said White House spokesman Judd Deere in an e-mail.
Environmental Protection Agency spokesman Michael Abboud said of the agreement, ‘‘This voluntary framework is a PR stunt that does nothing to further the one national standard that will provide certainty and relief for American consumers.’’
And officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is co-writing federal tailpipe standards, noted in a statement that the administration’s proposal doesn’t prevent manufacturers from building more efficient vehicles if they so choose.
Under the new accord, the four companies, which represent roughly 30 percent of the US auto market, have agreed to produce fleets averaging nearly 50 mpg by model year 2026. That’s just one year later than the target set under the Obama administration, which argued that requiring more-fuel-efficient vehicles would improve public health, combat climate change, and save consumers money at the gas pump without compromising safety.
The share of the US auto market affected by the new terms could grow significantly if other automakers also join the deal. Last month, the Canadian government also pledged to align mileage requirements for its auto market with California rather than the Trump administration.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
18 months (and counting)
Do you remember the good old days when we had "12 years to save the planet"?
Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that to keep the rise in global temperatures below 1.5C this century, emissions of carbon dioxide would have to be cut by 45% by 2030.
But today, observers recognise that the decisive, political steps to enable the cuts in carbon to take place will have to happen before the end of next year.
The idea that 2020 is a firm deadline was eloquently addressed by one of the world's top climate scientists, speaking back in 2017.
"The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can't be healed within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until 2020," said Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus of the Potsdam Climate Institute.
The sense that the end of next year is the last chance saloon for climate change is becoming clearer all the time.
"I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival," said Prince Charles, speaking at a reception for Commonwealth foreign ministers recently.
One of the understated headlines in last year's IPCC report was that global emissions of carbon dioxide must peak by 2020 to keep the planet below 1.5C.
Current plans are nowhere near strong enough to keep temperatures below the so-called safe limit. Right now, we are heading towards 3C of heating by 2100 not 1.5.
As countries usually scope out their plans over five and 10 year timeframes, if the 45% carbon cut target by 2030 is to be met then the plans really need to be on the table by the end of 2020.
What are the steps?
The first major hurdle will be the special climate summit called by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, which will be held in New York on 23 September.
Mr Guterres has been clear that he only wants countries to come to the UN if they can make significant offers to improve their national carbon cutting plans.
This will be followed by COP25 in Santiago, Chile, where the most important achievement will likely be keeping the process moving forward.
But the really big moment will most likely be in the UK at COP26, which takes place at the end of 2020.
The UK government believes it can use the opportunity of COP26, in a post-Brexit world, to show that Britain can build the political will for progress, in the same way the French used their diplomatic muscle to make the Paris deal happen.
"If we succeed in our bid (to host COP26) then we will ensure we build on the Paris agreement and reflect the scientific evidence accumulating now that we need to go further and faster," said Environment Secretary Michael Gove, in what may have been his last major speech in the job.
"And we need at COP26 to ensure other countries are serious about their obligations and that means leading by example. Together we must take all the steps necessary to restrict global warming to at least 1.5C."
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
creating oxygen
from carbon dioxide.
Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason—we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid of it. Even on other planets with thick atmospheres, O2 is hard to come by.
So, when we explore space, we need to bring our own oxygen supply. That is not ideal because a lot of energy is needed to hoist things into space atop a rocket, and once the supply runs out, it is gone.
One place molecular oxygen does appear outside of Earth is in the wisps of gas streaming off comets. The source of that oxygen remained a mystery until two years ago when Konstantinos P. Giapis, a professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, and his postdoctoral fellow Yunxi Yao, proposed the existence of a new chemical process that could account for its production. Giapis, along with Tom Miller, professor of chemistry, have now demonstrated a new reaction for generating oxygen that Giapis says could help humans explore the universe and perhaps even fight climate change at home. More fundamentally though, he says the reaction represents a new kind of chemistry discovered by studying comets.
Most chemical reactions require energy, which is typically provided as heat. Giapis's research shows that some unusual reactions can occur by providing kinetic energy. When water molecules are shot like extremely tiny bullets onto surfaces containing oxygen, such as sand or rust, the water molecule can rip off that oxygen to produce molecular oxygen. This reaction occurs on comets when water molecules vaporize from the surface and are then accelerated by the solar wind until they crash back into the comet at high speed.
Comets, however, also emit carbon dioxide (CO2). Giapis and Yao wanted to test if CO2 could also produce molecular oxygen in collisions with the comet surface. When they found O2 in the stream of gases coming off the comet, they wanted to confirm that the reaction was similar to water's reaction. They designed an experiment to crash CO2 onto the inert surface of gold foil, which cannot be oxidized and should not produce molecular oxygen. Nonetheless, O2 continued to be emitted from the gold surface. This meant that both atoms of oxygen come from the same CO2 molecule, effectively splitting it in an extraordinary manner.
"At the time we thought it would be impossible to combine the two oxygen atoms of a CO2 molecule together because CO2 is a linear molecule, and you would have to bend the molecule severely for it to work," Giapis says. "You're doing something really drastic to the molecule."
The apparatus Giapis designed to perform the reaction works like a particle accelerator, turning the CO2 molecules into ions by giving them a charge and then accelerating them using an electric field, albeit at much lower energies than are found in a particle accelerator. However, he adds that such a device is not necessary for the reaction to occur.
"You could throw a stone with enough velocity at some CO2 and achieve the same thing," he says. "It would need to be traveling about as fast as a comet or asteroid travels through space."
That could explain the presence of small amounts of oxygen that have been observed high in the Martian atmosphere. There has been speculation that the oxygen is being generated by ultraviolet light from the sun striking CO2, but Giapis believes the oxygen is also generated by high-speed dust particles colliding with CO2 molecules.
He hopes that a variation of his reactor could be used to do the same thing at more useful scales—perhaps one day serving as a source of breathable air for astronauts on Mars or being used to combat climate change by pulling CO2, a greenhouse gas, out of Earth's atmosphere and turning it into oxygen. He acknowledges, however, that both of those applications are a long way off because the current version of the reactor has a low yield, creating only one to two oxygen molecules for every 100 CO2 molecules shot through the accelerator.
Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason—we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid of it. Even on other planets with thick atmospheres, O2 is hard to come by.
So, when we explore space, we need to bring our own oxygen supply. That is not ideal because a lot of energy is needed to hoist things into space atop a rocket, and once the supply runs out, it is gone.
One place molecular oxygen does appear outside of Earth is in the wisps of gas streaming off comets. The source of that oxygen remained a mystery until two years ago when Konstantinos P. Giapis, a professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, and his postdoctoral fellow Yunxi Yao, proposed the existence of a new chemical process that could account for its production. Giapis, along with Tom Miller, professor of chemistry, have now demonstrated a new reaction for generating oxygen that Giapis says could help humans explore the universe and perhaps even fight climate change at home. More fundamentally though, he says the reaction represents a new kind of chemistry discovered by studying comets.
Most chemical reactions require energy, which is typically provided as heat. Giapis's research shows that some unusual reactions can occur by providing kinetic energy. When water molecules are shot like extremely tiny bullets onto surfaces containing oxygen, such as sand or rust, the water molecule can rip off that oxygen to produce molecular oxygen. This reaction occurs on comets when water molecules vaporize from the surface and are then accelerated by the solar wind until they crash back into the comet at high speed.
Comets, however, also emit carbon dioxide (CO2). Giapis and Yao wanted to test if CO2 could also produce molecular oxygen in collisions with the comet surface. When they found O2 in the stream of gases coming off the comet, they wanted to confirm that the reaction was similar to water's reaction. They designed an experiment to crash CO2 onto the inert surface of gold foil, which cannot be oxidized and should not produce molecular oxygen. Nonetheless, O2 continued to be emitted from the gold surface. This meant that both atoms of oxygen come from the same CO2 molecule, effectively splitting it in an extraordinary manner.
"At the time we thought it would be impossible to combine the two oxygen atoms of a CO2 molecule together because CO2 is a linear molecule, and you would have to bend the molecule severely for it to work," Giapis says. "You're doing something really drastic to the molecule."
The apparatus Giapis designed to perform the reaction works like a particle accelerator, turning the CO2 molecules into ions by giving them a charge and then accelerating them using an electric field, albeit at much lower energies than are found in a particle accelerator. However, he adds that such a device is not necessary for the reaction to occur.
"You could throw a stone with enough velocity at some CO2 and achieve the same thing," he says. "It would need to be traveling about as fast as a comet or asteroid travels through space."
That could explain the presence of small amounts of oxygen that have been observed high in the Martian atmosphere. There has been speculation that the oxygen is being generated by ultraviolet light from the sun striking CO2, but Giapis believes the oxygen is also generated by high-speed dust particles colliding with CO2 molecules.
He hopes that a variation of his reactor could be used to do the same thing at more useful scales—perhaps one day serving as a source of breathable air for astronauts on Mars or being used to combat climate change by pulling CO2, a greenhouse gas, out of Earth's atmosphere and turning it into oxygen. He acknowledges, however, that both of those applications are a long way off because the current version of the reactor has a low yield, creating only one to two oxygen molecules for every 100 CO2 molecules shot through the accelerator.
Wednesday, May 08, 2019
Nature is essential
You may go your entire life without seeing an endangered species, yet the globe's biodiversity crisis threatens all of humanity in numerous unseen or unrecognized ways, scientists say.
A massive United Nations report this week warned that nature is in trouble, estimated 1 million species are threatened with extinction if nothing is done and said the worldwide deterioration of nature is everybody's problem.
"Nature is essential for human existence and good quality of life," the report said.
Food, energy, medicine, water, protection from storms and floods and slowing climate change are some of the 18 ways nature helps keep people alive, the report said. And it concluded 14 of those are on long-term declining trends.
"You destroy nature and it's going to bite you back," Duke University ecology Stuart Pimm said, pointing to how difficult it has been for China to recover from decades of forest loss.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report points to more than 2,500 wars and other conflicts over fossil fuels, water, food and land to show how important nature is.
"Protecting biodiversity means protecting mankind because we human beings depend fundamentally on the diversity of the living," UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said in announcing the report in Paris.
Here are four ways humanity depends on nature, according to the report and scientists:
FOOD
Nearly all food comes directly from nature, said report co-author Kai Chan, an environmental scientist at the University of British Columbia. Even though overall the world is growing more food, pressure on crops from pollution, habitat changes and other forces has made prices soar and even caused food riots in Latin America, he said.
Pollinators across the globe, not just bees, are in decline. Three quarters of the world's food crops, including fruits, vegetables, coffee and cocoa, require pollination. The report said pollinator loss could cost the world $285 billion to $577 billion a year.
MEDICINE and HEALTH
About 70% of the drugs used to fight cancer "are natural or are synthetic products inspired by nature," the report said. About 4 billion people rely primarily on natural medicines.
George Mason University ecologist Thomas Lovejoy points to a single heat-thriving microbe that comes out of Yellowstone National Park's hot springs. Pieces of its genetic code are the key to a scientific technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that is used for medical, genetic and forensic tests and much of modern biotechnology.
"Nature underpins all dimensions of human health," the report said.
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE
The world's forests and oceans suck nearly 6.2 billion tons (5.6 billion metric tons) of heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the air each year, the report said. That's about 60% of what humans produce through burning fossil fuels.
Earth would be warming more and faster without forests and oceans, scientists said.
Climate change and biodiversity loss are equally huge environmental problems that make each other worse, report chairman Robert Watson said.
STORM PROTECTION
People can build expensive time-consuming sea walls to fight the rise of oceans from climate change or the same protection can be offered by coastal mangroves, the report said.
But mangroves are in trouble, Watson said.
"They often act as a nursery for fisheries basically," Watson said. "And they clearly help to protect land from severe weather events and storm surges from the sea."
The problem, he said, is that many mangrove systems have been converted to shrimp farms, leaving the land vulnerable to storm surges and devoid of biodiversity.
LIVING PLANET
People may think of biodiversity or endangered species as something detached from their daily lives. But those people don't understand that Earth functions as a "living planet" with many parts dependent on each other, George Mason's Lovejoy said.
"We're here in Paris. Can you experience Paris without nature?" asked report co-chairman Eduardo Brondizio of Indiana University. "Every place we turn here we see biodiversity exposed to us in the streets. When we open the tap here, we drink excellent water. When we look at the parks, when we look at the atmosphere here in the city, it's all about nature."
-- by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
A massive United Nations report this week warned that nature is in trouble, estimated 1 million species are threatened with extinction if nothing is done and said the worldwide deterioration of nature is everybody's problem.
"Nature is essential for human existence and good quality of life," the report said.
Food, energy, medicine, water, protection from storms and floods and slowing climate change are some of the 18 ways nature helps keep people alive, the report said. And it concluded 14 of those are on long-term declining trends.
"You destroy nature and it's going to bite you back," Duke University ecology Stuart Pimm said, pointing to how difficult it has been for China to recover from decades of forest loss.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report points to more than 2,500 wars and other conflicts over fossil fuels, water, food and land to show how important nature is.
"Protecting biodiversity means protecting mankind because we human beings depend fundamentally on the diversity of the living," UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said in announcing the report in Paris.
Here are four ways humanity depends on nature, according to the report and scientists:
FOOD
Nearly all food comes directly from nature, said report co-author Kai Chan, an environmental scientist at the University of British Columbia. Even though overall the world is growing more food, pressure on crops from pollution, habitat changes and other forces has made prices soar and even caused food riots in Latin America, he said.
Pollinators across the globe, not just bees, are in decline. Three quarters of the world's food crops, including fruits, vegetables, coffee and cocoa, require pollination. The report said pollinator loss could cost the world $285 billion to $577 billion a year.
MEDICINE and HEALTH
About 70% of the drugs used to fight cancer "are natural or are synthetic products inspired by nature," the report said. About 4 billion people rely primarily on natural medicines.
George Mason University ecologist Thomas Lovejoy points to a single heat-thriving microbe that comes out of Yellowstone National Park's hot springs. Pieces of its genetic code are the key to a scientific technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that is used for medical, genetic and forensic tests and much of modern biotechnology.
"Nature underpins all dimensions of human health," the report said.
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE
The world's forests and oceans suck nearly 6.2 billion tons (5.6 billion metric tons) of heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the air each year, the report said. That's about 60% of what humans produce through burning fossil fuels.
Earth would be warming more and faster without forests and oceans, scientists said.
Climate change and biodiversity loss are equally huge environmental problems that make each other worse, report chairman Robert Watson said.
STORM PROTECTION
People can build expensive time-consuming sea walls to fight the rise of oceans from climate change or the same protection can be offered by coastal mangroves, the report said.
But mangroves are in trouble, Watson said.
"They often act as a nursery for fisheries basically," Watson said. "And they clearly help to protect land from severe weather events and storm surges from the sea."
The problem, he said, is that many mangrove systems have been converted to shrimp farms, leaving the land vulnerable to storm surges and devoid of biodiversity.
LIVING PLANET
People may think of biodiversity or endangered species as something detached from their daily lives. But those people don't understand that Earth functions as a "living planet" with many parts dependent on each other, George Mason's Lovejoy said.
"We're here in Paris. Can you experience Paris without nature?" asked report co-chairman Eduardo Brondizio of Indiana University. "Every place we turn here we see biodiversity exposed to us in the streets. When we open the tap here, we drink excellent water. When we look at the parks, when we look at the atmosphere here in the city, it's all about nature."
-- by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
Friday, April 19, 2019
it's alive! (a little bit)
In a study that raises profound questions about the line between life and death, researchers have restored some cellular activity to brains removed from slaughtered pigs.
The brains did not regain anything resembling consciousness: There were no signs indicating coordinated electrical signaling, necessary for higher functions like awareness and intelligence.
But in an experimental treatment, blood vessels in the pigs’ brains began functioning, flowing with a blood substitute, and certain brain cells
regained metabolic activity, even responding to drugs. When the
researchers tested slices of treated brain tissue, they discovered
electrical activity in some neurons.
The
work is very preliminary and has no immediate implications for
treatment of brain injuries in humans. But the idea that parts of the
brain may be recoverable after death, as conventionally defined,
contradicts everything medical science believes about the organ and
poses metaphysical riddles.
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Oahu recycling update
The bad news from China took effect on New Year’s Day, 2018: Due to
growth, development and a mounting pile of its own recyclable waste, the
world’s second-largest economy was no longer in the market to buy
America’s trash as raw materials.
Suddenly, U.S. cities — which had benefited from an easy way to make recycling pencil out, given that for decades, China had been happy to buy up 40-50 percent of the recyclable materials — now had to come up with other solutions.
While the islands face a particular problem given the added factor of shipping costs, Oahu is not alone: Philadelphia, for example, has begun sending half of its recyclables to the incinerator.
The alternative contemplated by the City and County of Honolulu is a variant of that, though in milder form. Noting the falling values of recyclable glass, aluminum and paper now being collected in the city’s curbside recycling program, the city auditor in 2017 proposed redirecting much of it.
The waste, recyclable or otherwise, could go to the garbage-to-energy plant, H-POWER, to reduce the volume of what otherwise is bound for the landfill, according to the audit. The numbers are hard to dispute. From a high in 2011 when the sales value of the collected materials topped $2.5 million annually, it has dropped by more than half — and continues to fall.
Regardless, the notion of abandoning the curbside recycling effort quickly drew opposition from environmental groups, including the Sierra Club. Jodi Malinoski, policy advocate for the Hawaii chapter, said the organization does not want to see the city continually feeding its garbage to the plant, even if harvesting energy from it is a partial offset.
“It seems like we have to keep the fire going,” she said. “It’s time to cut that out.”
Rather than curbing the recycling, Malinoski said environmentalists favor finding a way to cut costs by reducing waste overall and by manufacturing a product with recyclable materials on-island rather than shipping it elsewhere.
There may be a point at which the city and the environmental groups can meet in the middle, said the city’s environmental services chief, and that discussion is likely to happen over the next several months.
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Suddenly, U.S. cities — which had benefited from an easy way to make recycling pencil out, given that for decades, China had been happy to buy up 40-50 percent of the recyclable materials — now had to come up with other solutions.
While the islands face a particular problem given the added factor of shipping costs, Oahu is not alone: Philadelphia, for example, has begun sending half of its recyclables to the incinerator.
The alternative contemplated by the City and County of Honolulu is a variant of that, though in milder form. Noting the falling values of recyclable glass, aluminum and paper now being collected in the city’s curbside recycling program, the city auditor in 2017 proposed redirecting much of it.
The waste, recyclable or otherwise, could go to the garbage-to-energy plant, H-POWER, to reduce the volume of what otherwise is bound for the landfill, according to the audit. The numbers are hard to dispute. From a high in 2011 when the sales value of the collected materials topped $2.5 million annually, it has dropped by more than half — and continues to fall.
Regardless, the notion of abandoning the curbside recycling effort quickly drew opposition from environmental groups, including the Sierra Club. Jodi Malinoski, policy advocate for the Hawaii chapter, said the organization does not want to see the city continually feeding its garbage to the plant, even if harvesting energy from it is a partial offset.
“It seems like we have to keep the fire going,” she said. “It’s time to cut that out.”
Rather than curbing the recycling, Malinoski said environmentalists favor finding a way to cut costs by reducing waste overall and by manufacturing a product with recyclable materials on-island rather than shipping it elsewhere.
There may be a point at which the city and the environmental groups can meet in the middle, said the city’s environmental services chief, and that discussion is likely to happen over the next several months.
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WHAT’S SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE BINS?
>> Green bins contain the green waste. That’s largely yard clippings: grass and tree and hedge trimmings. But it also can include plain vegetable and fruit waste unmixed with other ingredients.
>> Blue bins contain the recyclables, which can all be mixed together. Paper products are limited to newspaper, corrugated cardboard and white or colored office paper. Paper should exclude glossy paper or inserts, clips, envelopes and sticky labels. Glass bottles and jars, aluminum cans, metal food cans and plastic containers of types 1 and 2 (look for the triangle with a 1 or 2 inside, usually embossed on the bottom of the container).
>> Gray bins contain the regular trash — everything else suitable for general disposal, excluding anything hazardous. These are items such as plastic bags, Styrofoam, junk mail, magazines, cereal boxes and other chipboard, food cans and plastic containers other than those coded No. 1 or No. 2.
>> Green bins contain the green waste. That’s largely yard clippings: grass and tree and hedge trimmings. But it also can include plain vegetable and fruit waste unmixed with other ingredients.
>> Blue bins contain the recyclables, which can all be mixed together. Paper products are limited to newspaper, corrugated cardboard and white or colored office paper. Paper should exclude glossy paper or inserts, clips, envelopes and sticky labels. Glass bottles and jars, aluminum cans, metal food cans and plastic containers of types 1 and 2 (look for the triangle with a 1 or 2 inside, usually embossed on the bottom of the container).
>> Gray bins contain the regular trash — everything else suitable for general disposal, excluding anything hazardous. These are items such as plastic bags, Styrofoam, junk mail, magazines, cereal boxes and other chipboard, food cans and plastic containers other than those coded No. 1 or No. 2.
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WHO GETS IT, AND WHERE DOES IT GO?
>> Green waste goes to Hawaiian Earth Recycling in Wahiawa, which processes it into mulch and soil amendments such as compost.
>> Mixed recyclables are screened, separated and packed for shipping at the RRR Recycling plant at Campbell Industrial Park. According to its website: Corrugated cardboard and newspaper are sent largely to Asia to be remade into more cardboard, brown paper bags, more newspaper, wrapping paper and molded packaging. Aluminum cans are shipped to the mainland to be reprocessed into new aluminum cans and other products; glass bottles may be crushed and used as construction backfill locally, but much of it is shipped to the mainland to be melted into new glass products; plastics are shipped to the mainland or Asia to be remanufactured.
>> Trash largely goes to H-POWER to be burned for the heat that drives electrical generators; what can’t be incinerated goes to the landfill.
>> Green waste goes to Hawaiian Earth Recycling in Wahiawa, which processes it into mulch and soil amendments such as compost.
>> Mixed recyclables are screened, separated and packed for shipping at the RRR Recycling plant at Campbell Industrial Park. According to its website: Corrugated cardboard and newspaper are sent largely to Asia to be remade into more cardboard, brown paper bags, more newspaper, wrapping paper and molded packaging. Aluminum cans are shipped to the mainland to be reprocessed into new aluminum cans and other products; glass bottles may be crushed and used as construction backfill locally, but much of it is shipped to the mainland to be melted into new glass products; plastics are shipped to the mainland or Asia to be remanufactured.
>> Trash largely goes to H-POWER to be burned for the heat that drives electrical generators; what can’t be incinerated goes to the landfill.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
How we stopped climate change (in 31 years)
we're unleashing our imagination and exploring a dream, a possible future in which we're bringing global warming to a halt. It's a world in
which greenhouse emissions have ended.
Mass Electrification (Batteries Hold The Power)
(Editor's note: Each story has two sections, the first reflecting the present and the second imagining the world of 2050.)
2019: I went looking for people who've mapped out this world without greenhouse emissions. I found them in Silicon Valley.
Sila Kiliccote is an engineer. The back deck of her house, high up in the hills, overlooks Cupertino. Apple's circular headquarters is hidden in the morning mist. It's a long way from Istanbul, in Turkey, where she grew up; a great place to conjure up future worlds.
"Maybe you'd like some coffee?" Kiliccote says.
Her coffee machine is powered by solar panels on the roof. So is her laptop and her Wi-Fi.
"Everything runs on electricity in this house," she says.
This is the foundation of a zero-carbon world: Electricity that comes from clean sources, mainly the sun and the wind, cheap and increasingly abundant.
Today, it powers this house; tomorrow, it could drive the world.
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2050: The first step was electric cars. That was actually pretty easy
"By 2025, battery technology got cheaper," she says. Electric cars were no longer more expensive. "At that point there was a massive shift to electric vehicles, because they were quieter, and cleaner, and [required] less maintenance. No oil change! Yippee! You know?"
Heating and cooling in homes and office buildings have gone electric, too. Gas-burning furnaces have been replaced with electric-power like heat pumps.
We needed more electricity to power all this right when we were shutting down power plants that burned coal and gas. It took a massive increase in power from solar and wind farms. They now cover millions of acres in the U.S., 10 times more land than they did in 2020. Huge electrical transmission lines share electricity between North and South America. Europe is connected to vast solar installations in the Sahara desert, which means that sub-Saharan Africa also has access to cheap power.
"It just changed Africa," Kiliccote says. "It actually fueled the economies of Africa."
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The Urbanization Of Everything (A Desire Named Streetcars)
2019: I'm taking a walk through downtown Toronto, in Canada, with Jennifer Keesmaat, the city's former chief planner.
Keesmaat wants me to see one particular street. King Street. It's the seed of a zero-carbon future, she says.
King Street has a little bit of everything: glass-walled office buildings, theaters, old brick warehouses.
Two years ago, a new set of traffic rules went into effect here. "Basically, what we've done is, we've limited through-traffic for cars," Keesmaat says. It forced cars away from King Street and launched a whole cascade of changes.
The streetcars that run down the middle of King Street weren't stuck in traffic anymore.
They became the best way to get across town at rush hour. "The volume of people being moved is astronomical!" Keesmaat says, as one rolls by. The streetcars, of course, are powered by electricity, and one passes every two or three minutes.
Meanwhile, thousands of people have been moving into this downtown neighborhood, buying condos and renting apartments. Keesmaat knows one of them. He's the father of one of her friends.
"He said to me a few weeks ago, he thinks he takes out his car about once every two weeks," Keesmaat says. He walks to shops, restaurants and basketball games. His neighbors walk to jobs in the financial district right down the street. He's not heating a big free-standing house, either.
He has cut his energy use, and his greenhouse emissions, dramatically.
"That wasn't the driver for him," Keesmaat says. "He didn't say, 'How do I in fact live smaller?" It just happened naturally in this new urban geography.
2050: At this point, Keesmaat and I open up our minds and take a leap into a world that could be. Greenhouse gas emissions have dropped to zero.
How did we do it? By gradually reshaping our cities so that they look more like this neighborhood, with lots of people living close together, within walking distance of many of the things they need.
Keesmaat can already see this city in her mind, and describe it. "The vast majority of streets have been pedestrianized; that's how people get around, by walking down the street," she says.
"What has happened to the sprawling suburbs?" I ask. "Are people living there? How are they getting around?"
"Some of the large homes haven't changed at all," Keesmaat says. They've just been turned into multifamily units." Other free-standing houses that once lined suburban cul-de-sacs have disappeared; each one has been replaced with a building that contains five or six homes. With the local population booming, those neighborhoods also attracted shops and offices. Suburban sprawl morphed into urban density.
Cars have mostly disappeared. "There are cars, but people don't own cars," Keesmaat says. "Because a car is something that you use occasionally when you need it." Streetcars and buses go practically everywhere in the city now, and you rarely have to wait more than a couple of minutes to catch one. Fast buses and trains connect towns. For other destinations, there's car-sharing.
And it wasn't just technology, Hoornweg says. Over the past three decades, from 2020 to 2050, a huge cultural shift has taken place.
Just one example: In Toronto, the sharing economy that started decades ago with Uber and Airbnb is everywhere now. "Sharing rides, sharing tools, sharing somebody to look after your dog when you're not there."
Yes, we apparently still have dogs in 2050.
In part, people are forced to share things; cars are scarce and homes are smaller. (Scores of home builders went belly-up in the 2030s when millions of people suddenly decided that big houses weren't just expensive; they were lonely, too.)
But the scale of zero-carbon life also makes it easier to share. We're living closer together and run into neighbors all the time. "We have more acquaintances — somebody we met in our ride pool or car pool or whatever," Hoornweg says. "There's no better way to [meet your neighbors] than sitting in a [shared] car and you can't get away from them for 20 minutes or whatever."
Some people hated losing their yards and their solitary commutes at first. Others loved the changes. Eventually, Hoornweg says, it just became normal. People stopped talking about it.
Life now goes on as it always did. But there's one huge difference. We're no longer heating up the planet.
Mass Electrification (Batteries Hold The Power)
(Editor's note: Each story has two sections, the first reflecting the present and the second imagining the world of 2050.)
2019: I went looking for people who've mapped out this world without greenhouse emissions. I found them in Silicon Valley.
Sila Kiliccote is an engineer. The back deck of her house, high up in the hills, overlooks Cupertino. Apple's circular headquarters is hidden in the morning mist. It's a long way from Istanbul, in Turkey, where she grew up; a great place to conjure up future worlds.
"Maybe you'd like some coffee?" Kiliccote says.
Her coffee machine is powered by solar panels on the roof. So is her laptop and her Wi-Fi.
"Everything runs on electricity in this house," she says.
This is the foundation of a zero-carbon world: Electricity that comes from clean sources, mainly the sun and the wind, cheap and increasingly abundant.
Today, it powers this house; tomorrow, it could drive the world.
***
2050: The first step was electric cars. That was actually pretty easy
"By 2025, battery technology got cheaper," she says. Electric cars were no longer more expensive. "At that point there was a massive shift to electric vehicles, because they were quieter, and cleaner, and [required] less maintenance. No oil change! Yippee! You know?"
Heating and cooling in homes and office buildings have gone electric, too. Gas-burning furnaces have been replaced with electric-power like heat pumps.
We needed more electricity to power all this right when we were shutting down power plants that burned coal and gas. It took a massive increase in power from solar and wind farms. They now cover millions of acres in the U.S., 10 times more land than they did in 2020. Huge electrical transmission lines share electricity between North and South America. Europe is connected to vast solar installations in the Sahara desert, which means that sub-Saharan Africa also has access to cheap power.
"It just changed Africa," Kiliccote says. "It actually fueled the economies of Africa."
***
The Urbanization Of Everything (A Desire Named Streetcars)
2019: I'm taking a walk through downtown Toronto, in Canada, with Jennifer Keesmaat, the city's former chief planner.
Keesmaat wants me to see one particular street. King Street. It's the seed of a zero-carbon future, she says.
King Street has a little bit of everything: glass-walled office buildings, theaters, old brick warehouses.
Two years ago, a new set of traffic rules went into effect here. "Basically, what we've done is, we've limited through-traffic for cars," Keesmaat says. It forced cars away from King Street and launched a whole cascade of changes.
The streetcars that run down the middle of King Street weren't stuck in traffic anymore.
They became the best way to get across town at rush hour. "The volume of people being moved is astronomical!" Keesmaat says, as one rolls by. The streetcars, of course, are powered by electricity, and one passes every two or three minutes.
Meanwhile, thousands of people have been moving into this downtown neighborhood, buying condos and renting apartments. Keesmaat knows one of them. He's the father of one of her friends.
"He said to me a few weeks ago, he thinks he takes out his car about once every two weeks," Keesmaat says. He walks to shops, restaurants and basketball games. His neighbors walk to jobs in the financial district right down the street. He's not heating a big free-standing house, either.
He has cut his energy use, and his greenhouse emissions, dramatically.
"That wasn't the driver for him," Keesmaat says. "He didn't say, 'How do I in fact live smaller?" It just happened naturally in this new urban geography.
2050: At this point, Keesmaat and I open up our minds and take a leap into a world that could be. Greenhouse gas emissions have dropped to zero.
How did we do it? By gradually reshaping our cities so that they look more like this neighborhood, with lots of people living close together, within walking distance of many of the things they need.
Keesmaat can already see this city in her mind, and describe it. "The vast majority of streets have been pedestrianized; that's how people get around, by walking down the street," she says.
"What has happened to the sprawling suburbs?" I ask. "Are people living there? How are they getting around?"
"Some of the large homes haven't changed at all," Keesmaat says. They've just been turned into multifamily units." Other free-standing houses that once lined suburban cul-de-sacs have disappeared; each one has been replaced with a building that contains five or six homes. With the local population booming, those neighborhoods also attracted shops and offices. Suburban sprawl morphed into urban density.
Cars have mostly disappeared. "There are cars, but people don't own cars," Keesmaat says. "Because a car is something that you use occasionally when you need it." Streetcars and buses go practically everywhere in the city now, and you rarely have to wait more than a couple of minutes to catch one. Fast buses and trains connect towns. For other destinations, there's car-sharing.
And it wasn't just technology, Hoornweg says. Over the past three decades, from 2020 to 2050, a huge cultural shift has taken place.
Just one example: In Toronto, the sharing economy that started decades ago with Uber and Airbnb is everywhere now. "Sharing rides, sharing tools, sharing somebody to look after your dog when you're not there."
Yes, we apparently still have dogs in 2050.
In part, people are forced to share things; cars are scarce and homes are smaller. (Scores of home builders went belly-up in the 2030s when millions of people suddenly decided that big houses weren't just expensive; they were lonely, too.)
But the scale of zero-carbon life also makes it easier to share. We're living closer together and run into neighbors all the time. "We have more acquaintances — somebody we met in our ride pool or car pool or whatever," Hoornweg says. "There's no better way to [meet your neighbors] than sitting in a [shared] car and you can't get away from them for 20 minutes or whatever."
Some people hated losing their yards and their solitary commutes at first. Others loved the changes. Eventually, Hoornweg says, it just became normal. People stopped talking about it.
Life now goes on as it always did. But there's one huge difference. We're no longer heating up the planet.
Monday, February 25, 2019
global warming, what are the chances?
OSLO (Reuters) - Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a
“gold standard” level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in
greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, scientists said on
Monday.
“Humanity cannot afford to ignore such clear signals,” the U.S.-led team wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change of satellite measurements of rising temperatures over the past 40 years.
They said confidence that human activities were raising the heat at the Earth’s surface had reached a “five-sigma” level, a statistical gauge meaning there is only a one-in-a-million chance that the signal would appear if there was no warming.
Such a “gold standard” was applied in 2012, for instance, to confirm the discovery of the Higgs boson subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe.
Benjamin Santer, lead author of Monday’s study at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said he hoped the findings would win over skeptics and spur action.
“The narrative out there that scientists don’t know the cause of climate change is wrong,” he told Reuters. “We do.”
Mainstream scientists say the burning of fossil fuels is causing more floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels.
U.S. President Donald Trump has often cast doubt on global warming and plans to pull out of the 197-nation Paris climate agreement which seeks to end the fossil fuel era this century by shifting to cleaner energies such as wind and solar power.
Sixty-two percent of Americans polled in 2018 believed that climate change has a human cause, up from 47 percent in 2013, according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
“Humanity cannot afford to ignore such clear signals,” the U.S.-led team wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change of satellite measurements of rising temperatures over the past 40 years.
They said confidence that human activities were raising the heat at the Earth’s surface had reached a “five-sigma” level, a statistical gauge meaning there is only a one-in-a-million chance that the signal would appear if there was no warming.
Such a “gold standard” was applied in 2012, for instance, to confirm the discovery of the Higgs boson subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe.
Benjamin Santer, lead author of Monday’s study at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said he hoped the findings would win over skeptics and spur action.
“The narrative out there that scientists don’t know the cause of climate change is wrong,” he told Reuters. “We do.”
Mainstream scientists say the burning of fossil fuels is causing more floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels.
U.S. President Donald Trump has often cast doubt on global warming and plans to pull out of the 197-nation Paris climate agreement which seeks to end the fossil fuel era this century by shifting to cleaner energies such as wind and solar power.
Sixty-two percent of Americans polled in 2018 believed that climate change has a human cause, up from 47 percent in 2013, according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
artificial leaves
One can not help but marvel at the ingenuity of nature. Leaves, for
instance, do an incredible job of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen, making a better planet for us all.
Impressively, researchers have successfully copied nature and created artificial leaves that work just as well or even better than real ones. These engineered leaves mimic photosynthesis effectively; however, they have one caveat. So far, they only work in labs.
Impressively, researchers have successfully copied nature and created artificial leaves that work just as well or even better than real ones. These engineered leaves mimic photosynthesis effectively; however, they have one caveat. So far, they only work in labs.
Because they use pure, pressurized carbon
dioxide from tanks, these little marvels of engineering could not be
taken outside in the real world where they could help with reducing CO2,
until now.
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have invented a solution that could see artificial leaves be used in the real world. Better yet, their leaves would be 10 times more effective at converting CO2 than real ones.
"So far, all designs for artificial leaves that have been tested in the lab use carbon dioxide from pressurized tanks. In order to implement successfully in the real world, these devices need to be able to draw carbon dioxide from much more dilute sources, such as air and flue gas, which is the gas given off by coal-burning power plants," said Meenesh Singh, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the UIC College of Engineering and corresponding author on the paper.
To solve this dilemma, Singh and his team have devised an artificial semi-permeable membrane that would allow water to evaporate when hit by sunlight. When this occurs the water would also pull in carbon dioxide from the air.
Then, an artificial photosynthetic unit would convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and oxygen. The carbon monoxide would be collected and used in the development of synthetic fuels. The oxygen, however, could be released back into the environment where it is very much needed.
"By enveloping traditional artificial leaf technology inside this specialized membrane, the whole unit is able to function outside, like a natural leaf," Singh said.
"So far, all designs for artificial leaves that have been tested in the lab use carbon dioxide from pressurized tanks. In order to implement successfully in the real world, these devices need to be able to draw carbon dioxide from much more dilute sources, such as air and flue gas, which is the gas given off by coal-burning power plants," said Meenesh Singh, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the UIC College of Engineering and corresponding author on the paper.
To solve this dilemma, Singh and his team have devised an artificial semi-permeable membrane that would allow water to evaporate when hit by sunlight. When this occurs the water would also pull in carbon dioxide from the air.
Then, an artificial photosynthetic unit would convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and oxygen. The carbon monoxide would be collected and used in the development of synthetic fuels. The oxygen, however, could be released back into the environment where it is very much needed.
"By enveloping traditional artificial leaf technology inside this specialized membrane, the whole unit is able to function outside, like a natural leaf," Singh said.
Sunday, February 03, 2019
stop buying water
Like most people, I’m frustrated over the plastic pollution problem and
wonder if anything I do will make a difference. So last week Craig and I
met after work at Hanauma Bay to attend a talk given by a speaker
representing Plastic Free Hawaii, a branch of the Kokua Hawaii
Foundation started by musician Jack Johnson and his wife, Kim. The
charitable organization is dedicated to environmental education, one
being a program to reduce our consumption of single-use plastic.
And there I sat with my Plastic Free Hawaii bag full of single-use plastic. I had stopped at a grocery store for our dinner of sushi and drinks.
The subjects of plastic use, recycling, landfills, fishing gear and burning trash for electricity are so complex, and so biased, that after listening to the Hanauma Bay talk and spending hours on the internet, I’m still not convinced of the best way to deal with our island trash.
I am, however, convinced of one thing: We must stop buying drinking water in plastic bottles.
In one of the most successful marketing rip-offs of our lifetime, corporations have convinced people they need to buy water. Bottling companies have also persuaded people that to be healthy they should drink water all day long in substantial quantities.
The doctors I know think that the advertising to drink more (meaning buy more) water has caused people to be obsessed about dehydration. Feeling thirsty, they tell me, is not harmful. Pay attention to this natural drive, and when it happens, drink something.
A mind-boggling 50 billion plastic bottles of water are sold in the U.S. each year. That’s just one number I chose for this column, but the internet has dozens of websites offering nearly any drinking water statistic you prefer to believe.
I prefer to believe that Hawaii’s tap water is of high quality. That’s why I was so angry recently when I heard a vendor at the Honolulu airport tell a visitor that she needed to buy a bottle of water to go with her sandwich because you can’t drink tap water in Hawaii.
Hawaii has some of the purest water in the country. The vendor told me, though, he doesn’t believe that.
If you don’t trust government reports or scientific studies, or don’t like the taste of your water, install a filter on your kitchen faucet. If you prefer sparkling water, buy a Soda Stream machine that makes it.
The ever-changing pluses and minuses of recycling, HPOWER, packaging, waste dumps and drinking water are hard to sort out in our overcrowded, throw-away world. But to me there’s no question about buying water. This swindle of the century litters oceans, fouls beaches, fills trash cans and stokes fears of illness.
What with packaging as it is today, it’s nearly impossible to not buy plastic. Not buying water, though, and spreading the word, is one big thing we can do to help.
It’s one more reason to love visiting, and living in, Hawaii. It’s safe to drink the water.
-- Susan Scott, Ocean Watch, Star Advertiser, 1/19/19
And there I sat with my Plastic Free Hawaii bag full of single-use plastic. I had stopped at a grocery store for our dinner of sushi and drinks.
The subjects of plastic use, recycling, landfills, fishing gear and burning trash for electricity are so complex, and so biased, that after listening to the Hanauma Bay talk and spending hours on the internet, I’m still not convinced of the best way to deal with our island trash.
I am, however, convinced of one thing: We must stop buying drinking water in plastic bottles.
In one of the most successful marketing rip-offs of our lifetime, corporations have convinced people they need to buy water. Bottling companies have also persuaded people that to be healthy they should drink water all day long in substantial quantities.
The doctors I know think that the advertising to drink more (meaning buy more) water has caused people to be obsessed about dehydration. Feeling thirsty, they tell me, is not harmful. Pay attention to this natural drive, and when it happens, drink something.
A mind-boggling 50 billion plastic bottles of water are sold in the U.S. each year. That’s just one number I chose for this column, but the internet has dozens of websites offering nearly any drinking water statistic you prefer to believe.
I prefer to believe that Hawaii’s tap water is of high quality. That’s why I was so angry recently when I heard a vendor at the Honolulu airport tell a visitor that she needed to buy a bottle of water to go with her sandwich because you can’t drink tap water in Hawaii.
Hawaii has some of the purest water in the country. The vendor told me, though, he doesn’t believe that.
If you don’t trust government reports or scientific studies, or don’t like the taste of your water, install a filter on your kitchen faucet. If you prefer sparkling water, buy a Soda Stream machine that makes it.
The ever-changing pluses and minuses of recycling, HPOWER, packaging, waste dumps and drinking water are hard to sort out in our overcrowded, throw-away world. But to me there’s no question about buying water. This swindle of the century litters oceans, fouls beaches, fills trash cans and stokes fears of illness.
What with packaging as it is today, it’s nearly impossible to not buy plastic. Not buying water, though, and spreading the word, is one big thing we can do to help.
It’s one more reason to love visiting, and living in, Hawaii. It’s safe to drink the water.
-- Susan Scott, Ocean Watch, Star Advertiser, 1/19/19
Friday, February 01, 2019
immunotherapy
Cancer has an insidious talent for evading the natural defenses that
should destroy it. What if we could find ways to help the immune system
fight back?
It has begun to happen. The growing field of immunotherapy is profoundly changing cancer treatment and has rescued many people with advanced malignancies that not long ago would have been a death sentence.
It has begun to happen. The growing field of immunotherapy is profoundly changing cancer treatment and has rescued many people with advanced malignancies that not long ago would have been a death sentence.
Thursday, January 24, 2019
stopping Alzheimer's?
If you bled when you brushed your teeth this morning, you might want
to get that seen to. We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of
Alzheimer’s disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease.
That’s bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. But the good news is that a drug that blocks the main toxins of P. gingivalis is entering major clinical trials this year, and research published today shows it might stop and even reverse Alzheimer’s. There could even be a vaccine.
That’s bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. But the good news is that a drug that blocks the main toxins of P. gingivalis is entering major clinical trials this year, and research published today shows it might stop and even reverse Alzheimer’s. There could even be a vaccine.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Trump vs. science
Among the up-is-down, night-is-day practices of the Trump
administration, one of the most dangerous and disturbing is its habit of
turning America’s leading science agencies into hives of anti-science policymaking.
A new report lays out how this has produced a “monumental disaster” for science at the Department of the Interior. The report by the Union of Concerned Scientists details how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his minions have in the space of two years turned Interior from a steward of public lands and natural resources into a front for the mining and oil and gas industries.
“The intent in rolling back the consideration of science in decision-making is always to progress the development of fossil fuel interests,” Jacob Carter of the union’s center for science and democracy and lead author of the report told me.
This results in cascading negative effects on the agency’s mission. “Under Zinke’s watch, we see a lot of federal lands being opened for sale, which means a lot of endangered species will no longer be protected, and which has damaging consequences for climate,” Carter says.
Interior isn’t the only science agency that has been turned into a billboard for political and ideological propaganda. The Environmental Protection Agency has been similarly hollowed out, and the Department of Health and Human Services has all but abandoned its duty to advance Americans’ access to affordable healthcare.
Interior has taken a multifaceted approach to wiping science out of its policymaking. Zinke and his political appointees have terminated research projects or canceled them before they start. Among the affected studies was one to evaluate the health effects of coal strip mining in Appalachia. Interior shut down a study into how to improve inspections of offshore oil and gas development, which had been requested by Interior itself after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Zinke reassigned dozens of top scientists to make-work jobs out of their fields in an overt effort to goad them into resigning. One was Joel Clement, a forest ecologist who had been a climate science advisor at Interior for seven years, until he was abruptly reassigned to an accounting office that collects royalty checks from fossil fuel companies.
As Clement wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last year, “I believe I was retaliated against for speaking out publicly about the dangers that climate change poses to Alaska Native communities.” He’s one of the co-authors of the Union of Concerned Scientists report.
-- Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
A new report lays out how this has produced a “monumental disaster” for science at the Department of the Interior. The report by the Union of Concerned Scientists details how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his minions have in the space of two years turned Interior from a steward of public lands and natural resources into a front for the mining and oil and gas industries.
“The intent in rolling back the consideration of science in decision-making is always to progress the development of fossil fuel interests,” Jacob Carter of the union’s center for science and democracy and lead author of the report told me.
This results in cascading negative effects on the agency’s mission. “Under Zinke’s watch, we see a lot of federal lands being opened for sale, which means a lot of endangered species will no longer be protected, and which has damaging consequences for climate,” Carter says.
Interior isn’t the only science agency that has been turned into a billboard for political and ideological propaganda. The Environmental Protection Agency has been similarly hollowed out, and the Department of Health and Human Services has all but abandoned its duty to advance Americans’ access to affordable healthcare.
Interior has taken a multifaceted approach to wiping science out of its policymaking. Zinke and his political appointees have terminated research projects or canceled them before they start. Among the affected studies was one to evaluate the health effects of coal strip mining in Appalachia. Interior shut down a study into how to improve inspections of offshore oil and gas development, which had been requested by Interior itself after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Zinke reassigned dozens of top scientists to make-work jobs out of their fields in an overt effort to goad them into resigning. One was Joel Clement, a forest ecologist who had been a climate science advisor at Interior for seven years, until he was abruptly reassigned to an accounting office that collects royalty checks from fossil fuel companies.
As Clement wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last year, “I believe I was retaliated against for speaking out publicly about the dangers that climate change poses to Alaska Native communities.” He’s one of the co-authors of the Union of Concerned Scientists report.
-- Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
19 of the G20 nations reaffirm commitment to Paris climate accord
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Leaders of the world's top
economies agreed Saturday to repair the global trading system as they
closed a Group of 20 summit that saw the Trump administration at odds
with many allies over the Paris accord on climate change and issues like
migration.
The joint statement signed by all 20 member
nations said 19 of them reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris
climate accord, with the United States, which withdrew from the pact
under President Donald Trump, the lone holdout. The official communique
acknowledged flaws in global commerce and called for reforming the World
Trade Organization, but it didn't mention the word "protectionism"
after negotiators said that had met resistance from the United States.
Applause broke out in the convention center hall as the leaders,
including Trump, signed off on the statement at the end of the two-day
summit in the Argentine capital, the first time it has been held in
South America.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
climate change worse than thought?
[12/1/18] What climate change will do region by region
[11/24/18] National Climate Assessment contradicts Trump / impact on Hawaii
***
INCHEON, South Korea — A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.”
The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.
The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.” The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under the Paris agreement, the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming.
The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty.
Avoiding the most serious damage requires transforming the world economy within just a few years, said the authors, who estimate that the damage would come at a cost of $54 trillion. But while they conclude that it is technically possible to achieve the rapid changes required to avoid 2.7 degrees of warming, they concede that it may be politically unlikely.
*** [11/19/18] ***
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Climate change is often described as one problem, but it’s actually many.
Hotter temperatures are melting glaciers, causing sea levels to rise, triggering droughts, increasing the risk for more frequent and stronger cyclones, and making wildfires more likely, scientists say.
All those climate hazards add up.
And an expansive new report from a team of 23 scientists — led by a University of Hawaii professor — predicts that together those hazards mean that society “faces a much larger threat from climate change than previous studies have suggested.”
“Overall, our analysis shows that ongoing climate change will pose a heightened threat to humanity that will be greatly aggravated if substantial and timely reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are not achieved," the scientists concluded, while urging society to take steps now to prevent the worst-case scenarios of climate change.
[11/24/18] National Climate Assessment contradicts Trump / impact on Hawaii
***
INCHEON, South Korea — A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.”
The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.
The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.” The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under the Paris agreement, the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming.
The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty.
Avoiding the most serious damage requires transforming the world economy within just a few years, said the authors, who estimate that the damage would come at a cost of $54 trillion. But while they conclude that it is technically possible to achieve the rapid changes required to avoid 2.7 degrees of warming, they concede that it may be politically unlikely.
*** [11/19/18] ***
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Climate change is often described as one problem, but it’s actually many.
Hotter temperatures are melting glaciers, causing sea levels to rise, triggering droughts, increasing the risk for more frequent and stronger cyclones, and making wildfires more likely, scientists say.
All those climate hazards add up.
And an expansive new report from a team of 23 scientists — led by a University of Hawaii professor — predicts that together those hazards mean that society “faces a much larger threat from climate change than previous studies have suggested.”
“Overall, our analysis shows that ongoing climate change will pose a heightened threat to humanity that will be greatly aggravated if substantial and timely reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are not achieved," the scientists concluded, while urging society to take steps now to prevent the worst-case scenarios of climate change.
Friday, November 16, 2018
Grand K being retired
VERSAILLES, France — In a historic vote, nations unanimously approved Friday a ground-breaking overhaul to the international system of measurements, coming together in a way that they fail to do on so many other issues behind new definitions for the kilogram and other key units vital for trade and science.
Scientists for whom the update represents decades of work clapped, cheered and even wept as the 50-plus nations one by one said "yes" or "oui" to the update.
Nobel prize winner William Phillips called it "the greatest revolution in measurement since the French revolution," which ushered in the metric system of meters and kilograms.
The so-called "Grand K" kilogram, a cylinder of polished platinum-iridium alloy that has been the world's sole true kilo since 1889, is to be retired.
Nations gathered in Versailles, west of Paris, instead approved the use of a scientific formula to define the exact weight of a kilogram. Scientists at the meeting were giddy with excitement: some even sported tattoos on their forearms to mark the moment.
The change will have no discernable impact for most people. Their bathroom scales won't get kinder and kilos and grams won't change in supermarkets.
But it will mean redundancy for the Grand K and its six official copies. The new formula-based definition of the kilogram will have multiple advantages over the precision-crafted metal lump that has set the standard for more than a century.
Unlike a physical object, the formula cannot pick up particles of dust, decay with time or be dropped and damaged. It also is expected to be more accurate when measuring very, very small or very, very large masses.
Even in retirement, the "Grand K" and its six official copies — collectively known as "the heir and the spares" — will still be kept in the high-security vault on the outskirts of Paris where they are stored. That's because scientists want to keep on studying them, to see whether their masses gradually change over time.
Only exceedingly rarely have they seen the light of day since 1889, when they were taken out on a very few occasions to check whether other master kilograms that nations around the world use were still accurately calibrated, give or take the mass of a dust particle or two.
The metal kilo is being replaced by a definition based on Planck's constant, which is part of one of the most celebrated equations in physics but also devilishly difficult to explain.
Suffice to say that the updated definition will, in time, spare nations the need to occasionally send their kilos back to France for calibration against the "Grand K." Scientists instead should be able to accurately calculate an exact kilo without having to measure one lump of metal against another.
Scientists for whom the update represents decades of work clapped, cheered and even wept as the 50-plus nations one by one said "yes" or "oui" to the update.
Nobel prize winner William Phillips called it "the greatest revolution in measurement since the French revolution," which ushered in the metric system of meters and kilograms.
The so-called "Grand K" kilogram, a cylinder of polished platinum-iridium alloy that has been the world's sole true kilo since 1889, is to be retired.
Nations gathered in Versailles, west of Paris, instead approved the use of a scientific formula to define the exact weight of a kilogram. Scientists at the meeting were giddy with excitement: some even sported tattoos on their forearms to mark the moment.
The change will have no discernable impact for most people. Their bathroom scales won't get kinder and kilos and grams won't change in supermarkets.
But it will mean redundancy for the Grand K and its six official copies. The new formula-based definition of the kilogram will have multiple advantages over the precision-crafted metal lump that has set the standard for more than a century.
Unlike a physical object, the formula cannot pick up particles of dust, decay with time or be dropped and damaged. It also is expected to be more accurate when measuring very, very small or very, very large masses.
Even in retirement, the "Grand K" and its six official copies — collectively known as "the heir and the spares" — will still be kept in the high-security vault on the outskirts of Paris where they are stored. That's because scientists want to keep on studying them, to see whether their masses gradually change over time.
Only exceedingly rarely have they seen the light of day since 1889, when they were taken out on a very few occasions to check whether other master kilograms that nations around the world use were still accurately calibrated, give or take the mass of a dust particle or two.
The metal kilo is being replaced by a definition based on Planck's constant, which is part of one of the most celebrated equations in physics but also devilishly difficult to explain.
Suffice to say that the updated definition will, in time, spare nations the need to occasionally send their kilos back to France for calibration against the "Grand K." Scientists instead should be able to accurately calculate an exact kilo without having to measure one lump of metal against another.
Tuesday, November 06, 2018
ozone layer healing
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing
from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations
report said.
The ozone layer had been thinning since the late 1970s. Scientists raised the alarm and ozone-depleting chemicals were phased out worldwide.
As a result, the upper ozone layer above the Northern Hemisphere should be completely repaired in the 2030s and the gaping Antarctic ozone hole should disappear in the 2060s, according to a scientific assessment released Monday at a conference in Quito, Ecuador. The Southern Hemisphere lags a bit and its ozone layer should be healed by mid-century.
“It’s really good news,” said report co-chairman Paul Newman, chief Earth scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “If ozone-depleting substances had continued to increase, we would have seen huge effects. We stopped that.”
High in the atmosphere, ozone shields Earth from ultraviolet rays that cause skin cancer, crop damage and other problems. Use of man-made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which release chlorine and bromine, began eating away at the ozone. In 1987, countries around the world agreed in the Montreal Protocol to phase out CFCs and businesses came up with replacements for spray cans and other uses.
The ozone layer had been thinning since the late 1970s. Scientists raised the alarm and ozone-depleting chemicals were phased out worldwide.
As a result, the upper ozone layer above the Northern Hemisphere should be completely repaired in the 2030s and the gaping Antarctic ozone hole should disappear in the 2060s, according to a scientific assessment released Monday at a conference in Quito, Ecuador. The Southern Hemisphere lags a bit and its ozone layer should be healed by mid-century.
“It’s really good news,” said report co-chairman Paul Newman, chief Earth scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “If ozone-depleting substances had continued to increase, we would have seen huge effects. We stopped that.”
High in the atmosphere, ozone shields Earth from ultraviolet rays that cause skin cancer, crop damage and other problems. Use of man-made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which release chlorine and bromine, began eating away at the ozone. In 1987, countries around the world agreed in the Montreal Protocol to phase out CFCs and businesses came up with replacements for spray cans and other uses.
Friday, October 26, 2018
Games On The Go
For many, mobile gaming refers to games played on smartphones and tablets. But there's another lesser-known kind of mobile gaming out there -- one that involves vehicles decked out in video game hardware, cruising from home to home.
These veritable arcades on wheels can be spotted in neighborhoods around the island, yet few know what they actually are. Those who are privy to their existence, however, understand what a boon they can be to parents with lots of kids to look after.
Mobile Game Guys, founded in March 2008 by Kalani Miller and Shawn Haruno, is one such mobile gaming business on O'ahu.
-- Midweek, October 24, 2018, page 6
These veritable arcades on wheels can be spotted in neighborhoods around the island, yet few know what they actually are. Those who are privy to their existence, however, understand what a boon they can be to parents with lots of kids to look after.
Mobile Game Guys, founded in March 2008 by Kalani Miller and Shawn Haruno, is one such mobile gaming business on O'ahu.
-- Midweek, October 24, 2018, page 6
Monday, October 15, 2018
Paul Allen
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who had been suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, passed away at the age of 65 on Monday, his family said.
Allen had said earlier this month that he had started treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the same type of cancer he overcame nine years ago.
Born in Seattle, Allen attended Washington State University for two years before dropping out to co-found Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates, a friend of his from high school.
Allen, who left Microsoft in 1983, set up investment firm Vulcan Inc. in 1986 to manage his multibillion-dollar portfolio.
"Paul Allen's contributions to our company, our industry and to our community are indispensable," Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said in a statement. "As co-founder of Microsoft, in his own quiet and persistent way, he created magical products, experiences and institutions, and in doing so, he changed the world."
Allen, who ranked 44th on Forbes magazine's 2018 list of billionaires with a $20.5 billion fortune, was a major benefactor in Seattle, funding everything from libraries and universities to brain research.
His investments include ownership stakes in several professional sports teams, including the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, NFL's Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer.
Allen had said earlier this month that he had started treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the same type of cancer he overcame nine years ago.
Born in Seattle, Allen attended Washington State University for two years before dropping out to co-found Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates, a friend of his from high school.
Allen, who left Microsoft in 1983, set up investment firm Vulcan Inc. in 1986 to manage his multibillion-dollar portfolio.
"Paul Allen's contributions to our company, our industry and to our community are indispensable," Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said in a statement. "As co-founder of Microsoft, in his own quiet and persistent way, he created magical products, experiences and institutions, and in doing so, he changed the world."
Allen, who ranked 44th on Forbes magazine's 2018 list of billionaires with a $20.5 billion fortune, was a major benefactor in Seattle, funding everything from libraries and universities to brain research.
His investments include ownership stakes in several professional sports teams, including the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, NFL's Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Have you bought your last car?
A growing number of tech analysts are predicting that in less than 20
years we'll all have stopped owning cars, and, what's more, the
internal combustion engine will have been consigned to the dustbin of
history.
Yes, it's a big claim and you are right to be sceptical, but the argument that a unique convergence of new technology is poised to revolutionise personal transportation is more persuasive than you might think.
The central idea is pretty simple: Self-driving electric vehicles organised into an Uber-style network will be able to offer such cheap transport that you'll very quickly - we're talking perhaps a decade - decide you don't need a car any more.
And if you're thinking this timescale is wildly optimistic, just recall how rapidly cars replaced horses.
Yes, it's a big claim and you are right to be sceptical, but the argument that a unique convergence of new technology is poised to revolutionise personal transportation is more persuasive than you might think.
The central idea is pretty simple: Self-driving electric vehicles organised into an Uber-style network will be able to offer such cheap transport that you'll very quickly - we're talking perhaps a decade - decide you don't need a car any more.
And if you're thinking this timescale is wildly optimistic, just recall how rapidly cars replaced horses.
Monday, August 27, 2018
The OTT race
Sling remains the largest player in the total OTT pay-TV landscape with
over 2.34 million subscribers. DirecTV Now T had hit 1.8 million
subscribers by the end of June, which means the two largest players now
control over two thirds of the more than 6 million total OTT pay-TV
subscribers, according to Digiday.
While Sling leads the pack, the gap with DirecTV Now is shrinking, with only 535,000 separating the two providers, down from 836,000 at the end of the first quarter. While Sling had 41,000 net adds in the second quarter, the pace of expansion is slowing, as the service added 120,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2017 and 91,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2018. In contrast, DirecTV Now added 342,000 subscribers in the second quarter versus 152,000 in same period in 2017 and 312,000 in the first quarter of 2018. We expect that DirecTV Now will overtake Sling within the next year, but that YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV will expand faster than their slightly older peers.
While Sling leads the pack, the gap with DirecTV Now is shrinking, with only 535,000 separating the two providers, down from 836,000 at the end of the first quarter. While Sling had 41,000 net adds in the second quarter, the pace of expansion is slowing, as the service added 120,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2017 and 91,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2018. In contrast, DirecTV Now added 342,000 subscribers in the second quarter versus 152,000 in same period in 2017 and 312,000 in the first quarter of 2018. We expect that DirecTV Now will overtake Sling within the next year, but that YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV will expand faster than their slightly older peers.
Friday, August 10, 2018
Oceanic channel updates (direct connect)
[12/13/18] HDJ
[8/10/18] Noticed OC16 was missing as well as COZI and SURF. So I decided to re-scan. SURF moved to 9-4, OC16 moved to 9-16, COZI moved to 83-5. Also I'm getting CW-HD on 105-2, but I don't expect that to last long.
So here's the updated lineup:
2-8 CSPAN2
2-13 ANTENNA
9-16 OC16 SD
9-220 Program Guide (silent) [I think this is for the digital transport adapter]
[6/26/18] Well, I returned the boxes and canceled Spectrum. But I'm still getting some channels via direct connect. I guess they don't bother disconnecting it since it's now carrying only the few oddball channels. Maybe they think I might re-subscribe?
Anyway I decided to rescan since I wasn't getting a couple channels that I got on previous scan. Here's what I'm getting now.
2-8 CSPAN2
2-13 ANTENNA
[5/12/18] That was fast. The cable boxes arrived the next day via Priority Mail 1-Day. I hate for them to waste all that postage. I guess they figure they'll make it up eventually with the monthly rental fees.
Hook it up and let's see.
Got some loading message or something on the screen. In the meantime, set up the remote for my TV. Then the power went off on the cable box. Turn it on with the remote.
Then got the message your TV will be right with you. Wait several more minutes.
Now there's a message "To Restore Or Activate Services Call us at 643-2100. But the pamphlet says to call 1-877-309-5869. I wonder if it goes to the same place? I'll call the 877 number since I remember the last time (at the in-laws) I called the local number and I had to speak to somebody.
Activate digital receiver cable box. Nope, went to somebody talking.
Asked for my name, address. Then the last 4-digits of my SS#. Now on hold, waiting for the next person.
Wait a few more minutes and the signal came in.
Let's see. Nope, no Spectrum Sports. Mentioned briefly to the rep that the other rep said I would get Spectrum Sports. She seemed sympathetic. And also gave me a tip that if I pressed Guide twice I would get the option to view only the channels that I subscribe to. OK, that's cool.
Hmm. I'm getting the same problem that I got at the in-laws house. The picture changes every other channel. The solution was to reset the box on their side. But they said if I had that problem next time that I could pull out the power and plug it back in. Let's try that.
Nothing happens when I first plugged in the power. Let me wait a while.
Now it says Acquiring Application Information ...
Then the screen went blank.
OK, let's turn on the power with the remote.
Your TV will be right with you ... [with a countdown ball with a number in it]
then the screen went blank again
then it goes to channel 1016.
OK, not skipping the channels now.
OK, here's the channels.
1 iCONTROL Movies on Demand [shows both free and pay movies and TV]
2 HKBFD
3 KHONHD
4 KITVHD
5 KFVEHD
6 KLEI
7 KGMBHD
8 KHNLHD
9 KIKU
10 KHETHD
11 KWHE
12 SPCSP To receive this channel, call Customer Care at 643-2100
13 Spectrum Sports Enhanced Interactive / [sports highlights on demand]
14 Spectrum OC16 On Demand / [entire games On Demand, including Wahine volleyball] but when I tried Hawaii vs. UCLA HD, it said unavailable / I was able to load a high school baseball game in SD though. Might be a bandwidth problem
15 Spectrum OC16 Interactive
16 OC16
17 XCAST
18 XCAST2
19 XCAST Multiview
20 SPCSU (Surf Channel)
21 Spectrum USurf
25 KALO
26 KAAH
27 KPXOHD (ion)
28 DSTAR
30 EWTN
31 INSP
45 CSPAN
46 CSPAN3
47 CSPAN2
49 olelo (FOCUS)
50 KKAI
53 olelo (NATV)
54 olelo (VIEWS)
55 olelo (OAHU)
56 KUPU (COZI)
61 TBS
79 ARIRANG
80 KBS
81 Korea Lifestyle on Demand (pay)
93 KHON2 HD (CW)
100 Online Cable Billing Center
114 Hawaii News On Demand
126 KITV2 (MeTV)
131 LEASE
132 jtv
150 EVINEHD
152 HSNHD
153 QVCHD / blank screen
154 HSNShop (on demand)
155 SZ9 (Gem Shopping Network)
156 SHOPLC
157 RFN1
158 GEM
160 RFN1
162 SHZL3 (shop zeal)
183 Government On Demand
184 OLELO On Demand
200 SportsChoice multi-screen
330 Free On Demand
332 The Green Channel
342 Information for the Ages
354 EDUTV
355 UHTV
356 TEACH
358 UH Distance Learning On Demand
408 EWTN
409 BYUTV
410 INSP
411 Digitial Instructions (blank screen - I think my signal is marginal)
432 Multi-Screen Mosaic For Kids
443 KHET2 (PBS Kids)
520 QVCHD
541 KHNL2 (Antenna TV)
543 KHON3 (get TV)
544 KGMB2 (this)
546 REELZ
551 TBS
552 HSNHD
596 Free On Demand
620 iCONTROL Movies on Demand
695 KLEI
700 In Demand Barker
782 CSPAN2
783 CSPAN3 (blank)
912 Job Listings (blank)
919 PETS (adoptable Humane Society Pets)
943 Music Choice On Demand
951 OC16 On Demand
953 Hawaii News On Demand
959 Oceanic Sports and Fitness On Demand
963 TW Cable How-To On Demand
975 Primetime On Demand
990 iCONTROL Movies On Demand
1000 iCONTROL Movies On Demand
1002 HKBFD
1003 KHONHD
1004 HKBFD
1005 KFVEHD
1006 KITVHD
1007 KGMBHD
1008 KHNLHD
1010 KHETHD
1013 Spectrum Sports Enhanced Interactive Programming
1014 Spectrum OC16 On Demand
1015 Spectrum OC16 Interactive
1016 OC16
1017 XCAST
1018 XCAST2
1019 Spectrum XCast Multiview HD
1020 Surf Channel
1021 USURF
1027 KPXOHD (ion)
1028 DAYSTAR
1045 CSPAN HD
1046 CSPAN3 HD
1047 CSPAN2 HD
1093 KHON2 HD (CW)
1132 HJEWL
1150 EVINEHD
1152 HSNHD
1153 QVCHD
1154 HSNShop
1316 The Inspire Channel
1320 CookSpace
1326 Oiwi
1330 The Green Channel
1342 Information for the Ages
1408 EWTN
1409 BYUTVHD
1410 INSPHD
1546 REELZHD
1551 TBSHD
1810 KLEI
1975 Primetime On Demand
1990 iCONTROL Movies on Demand
1999 Bulletins On Demand
Yeah, so there are a lot of channels. But the only main channels are FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, TBS, PBS, CW. I get the first five on YouTube TV. I can get CW on demand (but not the live Saturday morning shows). And of course PBS on demand. The other channels I would be interested in are OC16 and XCAST. But I don't know if that's enough for me to cough up $34 a month.
***
[5/11/18] Called Spectrum to cancel my service. Told the rep that the only reason I had been keeping my basic service was that I was getting channels I wasn't supposed to have. And that the main reason was because of Spectrum Sports (and secondarily CW). She said I would still get Spectrum Sports. So I caved and decided to order the cable boxes and see how it is.
Logging into the spectrum app (on my ipad) and watch.spectrum.net (on my laptop) shows the channels I'm supposed to get (theoretically). I'll know for sure when I get the box.
16 - Spectrum OC16 (1016)
31 - insp (410, 1410)
45 - CSPAN (1045)
46 - CSPAN 3 (783)
47 - CSPAN 2 (782, 1047)
132 - jtv (1132)
152 - HSN (154, 1152)
153 - QVC (520)
154 - HSN (152, 1152)
410 - insp (31, 1410)
520 - QVC (153)
782 - CSPAN 2 (47, 1047)
783 - CSPAN3 (46, 1046)
1016 - Spectrum OC16 HD (16)
1045 - CSPAN HD (45)
1046 - CSPAN 3 HD (46, 783)
1047 - CSPAN 2 HD (47, 782)
1132 - jtv HD (32)
1152 - HSN HD (152, 154)
1153 - QVC HD (153, 520)
1154 - HSN HD (152, 154, 1152)
1410 - insp HD (31, 410)
then if you have Spectrum internet at home, you can also watch
2 - KBFD
3 - KHON (Fox)
4 - KITV (ABC)
5 - KFVE
7 - KGMB
8 - KHNL
9 - KIKU
10 - KHET
11 - KWHE
25 - KALO
26 - TBN
27 - ion
28 - Daystar
30 - EWTN (408)
43 - MSNBC (107)
56 - KUPU
61 - tbs
80 - KBS World
93 - CW (1093)
107 - MSNBC (43)
126 - MeTV
150 - evine
156 - SHOP
157 - Shop Zeal (160)
158 - Gem Shopping Network
160 - Shop Zeal (157)
I also asked the rep if they still offer the Basic service because when I tried to downgrade Tom at the Ward office, the guy said it's no longer available. She said it's still available. But I kind of doubt this too.
[5/1/18] The dreaded day has arrived when Spectrum has gone all digital in our area. While most of the channels are gone or encrypted, not all were.
Here's what my scan this morning turned up. I'm going to cancel my service after this, so this will likely be the final lineup I post.
Current Spectrum Channel Lineup (via direct connect, updated 5/1/18)
3 Spectrum's network is now all digital. This channel has moved to a new location. Please go to www.spectrum.com/digitalnow for a complete list of channel locations
9-220 Program Guide (silent) [I think this is for the digital transport adapter]
57-1 Great news! Spectrum TV is now 100% digital in your area. This will require you to have an existing set-top box, CableCARD, or Spectrum receiver on each TV in your home to get service.
57-2 same message as on channel 3
57-10 same message as on channel 57-1
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN
78-21 KBS
78-29 State of Hawaii Emergency Operations Center
78-30 TEC
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-4 SURF
79-10 ON DEMAND previews
79-16 OC16 SD
112-14 KWHE
112-26 TBN
112-49 olelo
112-53 olelo 53
112-54 olelo 54
112-55 olelo55
[5/9/18 - rescanned after scanning with the Mohu antenna attached. Noticed that the signals are weak when my Roku Stick is attached. Must be interference.]
***
Current Spectrum Channel Lineup (via direct connect, updated 11/25/17)
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (82-14)
12 OC16 (83-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 Spectrum Sports (83-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSW
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 Spectrum Sportsnet
25 KALO (47-25)
26 TBN (82-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD, 47-27 SD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 Spike
40 bravo
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 ion HD (27, 47-27 SD)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 2)
46-4 CW (81-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-3 KHON SD
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 KFVE SD
47-7 KGMB SD
47-8 KHNL SD
47-10 KHET SD
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion SD (27, 46-1 HD)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 2)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD SD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 4)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (82-53)
54 olelo (82-54)
55 olelo (82-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-4 SURF
79-10 ON DEMAND previews
79-16 OC16 SD (83-16 HD)
81-3 CW HD (favorite 7) [changed from 66-3]
81-63 QVC (2) [changed from 66-63]
81-64 INFO [changed from 66-64]
82-14 KWHE (11) [changed from 119-14]
82-26 TBN (26) [changed from 119-26]
82-49 olelo [changed from 119-49]
82-53 olelo 53 (53) [changed from 119-53]
82-54 olelo 54 (54) [changed from 119-54]
82-55 olelo55 (55) [changed from 119-55]
116-5 COZI TV
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
2/2/18 - try wait
2/1/18 - Spectrum to go all-digital starting Tuesday. I guess they're going to remove all the analog channels? Are they going to move any more of the analog channels to digital? Well, we'll see if I can still catch anything without a cable box. I think I'll still get the broadcast channels via ClearQAM?
I guess, not. The FCC decided in 2012 that cable companies can encrypt the broadcast channels. Goodbye ClearQAM. I dunno, this blurb just says the cable operator can choose to carry broadcast channels only in digital form and that digital TVs with a QAM tuner should still be able to get them. But this CNET article says that cable operators will be allowed to encrypt basic cable TV service which includes broadcast TV.
If they don't give me OCSports any more, it's probably goodbye Spectrum for me. Stay tuned. [According to this, Spectrum Sports is not included with Basic Service.]
Well, in Akron in November, customers TV went black. OK, not looking good.
Apparently the signals will be encrypted. Not looking good. Maybe time to shop for an antenna.
OK, got a robo-call from Spectrum that they're going all digital. Then I checked my bill in the mail. My bill went up to $34.18 from $27.19 with this notice:
"Spectrum is going 100% digital in your area. We are upgrading your TV service to 100% digital to bring you better picture quality, more channels and great entertainment options. In the coming weeks. all channels will be delivered digitally and your television will require a digital receiver in order to watch these channels. For more information call 643-2100 to learn more about how to receive your equipment."
Well, maybe I'll get the free cable box / digital adapter and see what kind of channels I'll get. [It looks like it's free for two years.] Then maybe cancel the next month if I don't like it.
11/22/17 - XCAST disappeared from 109-2. Re-scanned and XCAST turned up on 110-1 with SURF HD on 110-2. But then they disappeared shortly after that. 11/25/17 - Re-scanned again. SURF HD showed up on 86-5, but was gone a few hours later.
11/5/17 - while going through finish labeling the channels again, I checked to see if the missing channels were back (didn't have to re-scan, but just entered the numbers of the channels that were missing from before, and the TV apparently scans for all the sub-channels of that particular channel.). They're back! PBS Kids (79-1), getTV (79-3), On Demand trailers (79-10), KBFD HD (114-5). 116-5 is also back, but it's now COZI TV instead of the Catholic Channel. SURF also showed up at 79-4, but we'll see if it (and the others) stick around. And XCAST HD (109-2) has stuck around.
***
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 Spectrum Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSW
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 Spectrum Sportsnet
25 KALO (47-25)
26 TBN (119-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD, 47-27 SD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 Spike
40 bravo
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 ion HD (27, 47-27 SD)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 2)
46-4 CW (81-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-3 KHON SD
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 KFVE SD
47-7 KGMB SD
47-8 KHNL SD
47-10 KHET SD
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion SD (27, 46-1 HD)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 2)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD SD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 4)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (119-53)
54 olelo (119-54)
55 olelo (119-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS [gone]
79-3 getTV [gone]
79-10 ON DEMAND [gone]
79-16 OC16 SD (99-16 HD)
81-3 CW HD (favorite 7) [changed from 66-3]
81-63 QVC (2) [changed from 66-63]
81-64 INFO [changed from 66-64]
82-14 KWHE (11) [changed from 119-14]
82-26 TBN (26) [changed from 119-26]
82-49 olelo [changed from 119-49]
82-53 olelo 53 (53) [changed from 119-53]
82-54 olelo 54 (54) [changed from 119-54]
82-55 olelo55 (55) [changed from 119-55]
116-5 CATHOLC [gone]
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
10/8/17 - rescanned since I noticed last night that the 119 series had disappeared. The 119 series has now moved to channel 82. Also popping up (temporarily I assume) were 104-2 XCAST OC16, 107-1 SURF, 108-1 XCAST SD, 108-2 XCAST Multiview, 109-2 XCAST HD. 108-1 and 108-2 have already disappeared. Gone are the 79 series: PBSKIDS, getTV, ON DEMAND, OC16 SD. Also gone are 114-5 KBFD HD and 116-5 Catholic. I wouldn't be surprised they pop up again in the coming days.
*** [9/30/17]
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 Spectrum Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSW
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 Spectrum Sportsnet
25 KALO (47-25)
26 TBN (119-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD, 47-27 SD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 Spike
40 bravo
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 ion HD (27, 47-27 SD)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 2)
46-4 CW (81-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-3 KHON SD
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 KFVE SD
47-7 KGMB SD
47-8 KHNL SD
47-10 KHET SD
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion SD (27, 46-1 HD)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 2)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD SD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 4)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (119-53)
54 olelo (119-54)
55 olelo (119-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 OC16 SD (99-16 HD)
81-3 CW HD (favorite 7) [changed from 66-3]
81-63 QVC (2) [changed from 66-63]
81-64 INFO [changed from 66-64]
116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
119-8 CSPAN2 [changed from 134-8]
119-13 ANTENNA [changed from 134-13]
119-14 KWHE (11) [changed from 134-14]
119-26 TBN (26) [changed from 134-26]
119-49 olelo [changed from 134-49]
119-53 olelo 53 (53) [changed from 134-53]
119-54 olelo 54 (54) [changed from 134-54]
119-55 olelo55 (55) [changed from 134-55]
[9/28/17] Noticed that CW HD and the Olelo digital channels were missing, so I decided to rescan. CW is still missing and the Olelo channels have changed their location. The Olelo channels (along with CSPAN2, ANTENNA, KWHE, TBN) have changed from 134 to 119. Now gone: 66-3 CW HD, 66-63 QVC, 66-64 INFO, 78-21 KBS, 78-29 CIVIL, 78-30 TEC. 46-4 CW SD is still there, so I'm hopeful that CW HD might return. But it's not like I watch it very often (I now watch the Arrowverse shows when they come on Netflix -- the CW app is frustrating with their quirky subtitles and long commercial breaks). Oh yeah, Oceanic is now Spectrum.
[9/29/17] Scanned again. 78-21 KBS, 78-29 CIVIL, 78-30 TEC are back. And good news, channel 66 has moved to channel 81. It's now 81-3 CW HD, 81-63 QVC, 81-64 INFO. So didn't lose any channels after all. 108-2 is SURF (which pops up temporarily then goes away). Yesterday also got an XCAST channel that has gone away.
[9/30/17] Noticed Spectrum Sports and OC16 HD were missing last night, so I scanned again. Spectrum Sports has moved from 99-4 to 83-4 and OC 16 HD has moved from 99-16 to 83-16. SURF is gone again, but XCAST showed up on 86-1 and XCAST2 showed up on 108-2 (where SURF had been). We'll see how long they stay up.
***
Current Oceanic Channel Lineup (via direct connect, updated 4/7/17)
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 OC Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSW
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 Spectrum Sportsnet
25 KALO (47-25)
26 TBN (134-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 Spike
40 bravo
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 ION HD (27)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 2)
46-4 CW (66-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-3 KHON SD
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 KFVE SD
47-7 KGMB SD
47-8 KHNL SD
47-10 KHET SD
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion SD (27)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 2)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD SD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 4)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (134-53)
54 olelo (134-54)
55 olelo (134-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
66-3 CW HD (favorite 7)
66-63 QVC (2)
66-64 INFO
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 OC16 SD (99-16 HD)
98-4 GUIDE
99-4 OCSPORT HD (favorite 9)
99-16 OC16 HD (favorite 8)
114-5 KBFD HD
116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
134-8 CSPAN2
134-13 ANTENNA
134-14 KWHE (11)
134-26 TBN (26)
134-49 olelo
134-53 olelo 53 (53)
134-54 olelo 54 (54)
134-55 olelo55 (55)
[4/7/17] Decided to rescan the channels on my Panasonic plasma (because I felt like starting over). Well, not totally nuts because I decided to rescan just the digital channels so as not to lose the labels on the analog. Pretty much no changes. The major difference is that the digital SD channels in the 83-90 range moved to the 47 range. Also this time, no captions were provided by Oceanic during the scan (they had previously provided the channel captions for the main HD channels), so I had to re-input all the digital captions. Also corrected KALO and KAAH. I had them switched on the TV. According to the Zap2It guide, KALO is channel 25 and KAAH is channel 26. I put on TBN instead of KAAH because that's what shows in the corner when you tune to the channel. Similarly I put on ION instead of KPXO. Channel 23 is now Spectrum Sportsnet instead of Time Warner Cable Sportnet (since Spectrum bought out Time Warner Cable).
[10/30/16] Current Oceanic Channel Lineup (via direct connect)
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 OC Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FOXSPT
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 LAKERS (TW Sports)
25 KALO (47-25)
26 KAAH (134-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 SPIKE
40 BRAVO
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 KPXO HD (favorite 11)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 1)
46-4 CW (66-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-4 CSPAN
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion (27)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 4)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 2)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (134-53)
54 olelo (134-54)
55 olelo (134-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
66-3 CW HD (favorite 7)
66-63 QVC (2)
66-64 INFO
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL (favorite 14)
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 get TV
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 OC16 (99-16 HD)
83 DKHON (46-3)
85 DKFVE (49-1)
87 DKGMB (48-1)
88 DKHNL (49-3)
90 DKHET (49-12)
98-4 GUIDE (favorite 20)
99-4 OCSPORT HD (favorite 9)
99-16 OC16 HD (favorite 8)
114-5 KBFD HD (favorite 12)
116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
134-8 CSPAN2
134-13 ANTENNA (favorite 13)
134-14 KWHE (11)
134-26 KAAH (26)
134-49 OLELO
134-53 olelo 53 (53)
134-54 olelo 54 (54)
134-55 olelo55 (55)
[10/30/16] MeTV is finally back. Along with the other channels on channel 47 such as this and CSPAN. So they were absent about 3-1/2 months. I lived.
[9/11/16] ESPN News no longer on 122-2.
[9/7/16] Still no MeTV, but noticed today a new channel get TV (channel 79-3). Like MeTV and Antenna TV, it plays old TV shows. Right now there's an old Western on (apparently Tombstone Territory). And now The Restless Gun.
Looking at the web site, it's a Sony company. They have shows like Sonny and Cher, In the Heat of the Night. Not many comedies, but I do see Nanny and the Professor, The Ghost of Mrs. Muir.
Oddly, I don't see it on the regular Oceanic digital lineup (yet). Doing a search, it's channel 2.3 via antenna and channel 373 on DISH.
ESPN News has been on for a while on channel 122-2, so I'll add it to the lineup. And I think I'll move the latest channel lineup at the top of this post and leave the comments below.
[8/6/16] My OCD compels me to rescan. But before rescanning, I'm double-checking the labels (so I can re-enter them after scanning wipes most of them out). Noticed a few more channels. 48-4 is the digital KIKU. 48-5 is KBFD SD. 48-6 is KITV SD.
Nope, still no MeTV. Well there's another hour (or two) wasted (putting back in the captions).
[8/5/16] Noticed a couple more channels popped up on my direct connect channel list. 46-4 CW which is the SD counterpart to 66-3. And 46-56 TEACH-f which looks like a public access channel. I'll add them to the lineup. Still no MeTV. Don't feel like re-scanning right now.
[7/18/16] decided to rescan the Oceanic channels. Now there's nothing in the 47 range. Disappearing were MeTV, this, CSPAN, KALO digital. However the "main" network digital SD channels in that range have been moved to: 83 DKHON, 85 DKFVE, 87 DKGMB, 88 DKHNL, 90 DKHET.
So here's the updated lineup:
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 OC Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FOXSPT
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 LAKERS (TW Sports)
25 KALO
26 134-26 (KAAH)
27 ion (46-1 HD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 SPIKE
40 BRAVO
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 KPXO HD (favorite 11)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 1)
46-4 CW (66-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV (waiting for it to come back for me)
47-2 this (ditto)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 4)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 2)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (134-53)
54 olelo (134-54)
55 olelo (134-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
66-3 CW HD (favorite 7)
66-63 QVC (2)
66-64 INFO
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL (favorite 14)
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 get TV
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 OC16 (99-16 HD)
83 DKHON (46-3)
85 DKFVE (49-1)
87 DKGMB (48-1)
88 DKHNL (49-3)
90 DKHET (49-12)
98-4 GUIDE (favorite 20)
99-4 OCSPORT HD (favorite 9)
99-16 OC16 HD (favorite 8)
114-5 KBFD HD (favorite 12)
116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
122-2 ESPN News
134-8 CSPAN2
134-13 ANTENNA (favorite 13)
134-14 KWHE (11)
134-26 KAAH (26)
134-49 OLELO
134-53 olelo 53 (53)
134-54 olelo 54 (54)
134-55 olelo55 (55)
[7/16/16] Noticed that MeTV is no longer at 47-1 (or anywhere else I can find). I see in the agreements with programmers document dated 7/4/16 that MeTV digital was one of the channels due to expire. It's still listed as channel 126 on the zap2it guide.
[6/17/16] KGMB HD is back on 48.1.
[6/16/16] Well, still no KGMB HD. In fact 48.1 disappeared from the list of channels. So I'm going to do a new scan. The problem with scanning is that all my labels that I inputted disappear and I have to manually set them again. So at the bottom of the post, I will put the latest channel lineup with the labels I had put on.
[6/15/16] As of last night, I noticed that KGMB HD (48.1) has no signal. This doesn't affect me too much since I subscribe to CBS All Access. KGMB SD digital still works (47.9). Couldn't find any notification of this on the Oceanic site. It may be just a local problem to my area like KITV earlier. We'll see how long it takes to come back, if ever. KITV HD took over 2 months before the problem was corrected.
[4/19/16] Lost a few channels this morning. CNBC HD is gone, CW HD is gone, KBFD HD is gone. And OC Sports has moved to 99-4. And it looks like KHON HD is duplicated at 66-3. Or it could be CW HD since they show the morning news at the same time. I'll know in abount 30 minutes. Yep, it's CW. OK, so only CNBC and KBFD are gone with OC Sports and CW moving to new channels.
Let's check the channel lineup at oceanic.com. The lineups have been updated. The digital lineup is dated 4/12/16. The analog link goes to the digital adapter list and is dated 4/13/16. The digital adapter link goes to the digital adapter list dated 6/26/15. That could mean that Oceanic no longer officially supports analog and will phase it out. Here's the old "analog" lineup dated 4/7/14 which lists CNBC on 51.3 and OC Sports on 51.1.
Ah. Here's something. (I don't know how I would find this page if I didn't have it linked below. Well, I guess I can google it.)
"On or about 4/11/16, Oceanic Time Warner Cable will be making technical changes to our cable system that may disrupt our customers’ ability to view unencrypted (“in-the-clear”) channels on a digital television or other device that includes a QAM tuner (a “ClearQAM device”). If this occurs, viewers will need to go into the settings menu on their ClearQAM device and perform a new channel scan in order to resume viewing these channels. Customers using digital cable set-top boxes will not notice any change. In-the-clear channels on Oahu, Maui and Kauai: CW HD from Ch. 50.7 to 66.3; KUPU from Ch. 50.6 to 116.5 (Oahu only); CNBC HD from Ch. 51.5 to 117.2; OCSports HD from Ch. 51.1 to 99.4 and KBFD HD from Ch. 115.3 to 114.5."
OK, rescan and see if I can get CNBC and KBFD back.
(Shucks should have wrote down all the channel number caption descriptions before I scanned because scanning wipes them out. I only scanned the digital, so hopefully the analog captions are not wiped out. Well most of them are at the old list, so no biggie.)
OK there you go. KUPU is the Catholic channel. Whew, the analog captions are still intact. That saves me some work. But my favorites are all wiped out. OK, let's put the favorites back at least.
So now here's my updated favorites on my Panasonic plasma which includes the current HD lineup.
46-3 KHON
49-1 KFVE
48-9 KITV
48-1 KGMB
49-3 KHON
49-12 KHET
66-3 CW
99-16 OC16
99-4 OC Sports
117-2 CNBC HD
46-1 KPXO
114-5 KBFB HD
47-1 MeTV
134-13 Antenna TV
There is now also a channel guide in HD at 98-4. But it's the lineup for digital cable, so it might not be there for long. Actually it looks like it's the listing for those with a digital adapter (e.g. it doesn't have the premium channels), so it might stick around.
The complete channel lineup (before today's changes) is here.
[3/27/16] Noticed a couple of weeks ago that KPXO HD 66-1 is now 46-1. Updated the channel list.
[1/18/16] Hey KITV HD is back. This is contrary to what the Oceanic guy (working at Reef's house last week) told me. He said they're taking away those channels because we're not supposed to get them. I found it odd when I noticed a couple of weeks ago that KITV HD was still available via direct connect at my cousin's house who doesn't live far away (even after my cousin had their service discontinued).
[11/11/15] Lost KITV HD yesterday (48-9). Rescanned. Nope still not there. The KITV SD digital channel 48-6 doesn't come in either (see the analog channel lineup here). Maybe Oceanic lost to rights to telecast it digitally (but no mention here). Maybe they don't even know it's gone. Well, we'll see if it (and when) it comes back.
[9/13/13] Oh well, it didn't last too long. OC Sports HD is no longer on 115.3. Looks like the blacked it out. Funny it was working at 7:00 PM, then I went back to Rosanne and when I came back for the 7:30 PM game (Wahine vs. Northwestern), it was black. And what's worse TW Sports HD is no longer on either at 51.2, though the SD signal is still at 51.4.
Couldn't resist and rescanned. What do you know? OCSports is now back on! And a minute later, it disappeared :( And now it's on again... stay tuned.
[9/11/13] Latest scan. Apparently Ion (KPXO) HD is no longer on direct connect. It used to be on 46-1 for a long time, then I recently saw it on 66-1 for a little while, though I never saw a full screen picture (though transmitting in 720p).
However, more than making up for it is OC Sports back on HD. This time it's on 115.3. I've seen it on for a day or so. We'll see if it lasts (cross fingers). OC Sports is no longer on 82.1 (SD) and 51.1 (HD). Just on 16 and 115.3 (as far as I can see).
That direct connection TV lineup on Oceanic.com is outdated. They do have Me TV on channel 47.1. And Antenna TV on 134.13. CNBC on 51.3. But not This on 47.2.
[11/23/11] A couple more channels on Oceanic
Me TV (channel 126)
and You TV (channel 604) which is actually youtoo.
(Not to be confused with Me Too which is apparently an additional Me TV channel.)
Both are kind of like TV Land showing old shows for the 60s and 70s.
[5/14/12] Antenna TV
[8/13/12] OC16 moving to channel 12 (and vice-versa)
[8/23/12] In the mail, I get a notice that Oceanic is no longer going to carry CNBC on analog. One more reason to drop Oceanic. Looking at the latest agreements with programmers:
Statewide, on or about September 1, 2012, CBS College Sports on digital Ch. 247 and HD channel 1247 may be added to Digital Variety Pak (DVP).
Statewide, on or about September 20, the following new Free on Demand Channels will be added: Cutting Edge on Demand on Ch. 1974, Travel on Demand on Ch. 1970 and Health on Demand on Ch. 1956.
Statewide, on or about September 20, Gay on Demand Pay-Per-View will be added to Ch. 741.
Statewide, on or about October 1, 2012 Time Warner Cable Sports Network will be launched on analog Ch. 23, HD Ch. 400 and digital Ch. 1400 on the CPST tier.
Statewide, on or about October 1, Gospel Music TV Ch. 407 will be added to the Digital Variety Pak.
Statewide, on or about October 1, the following HD channels will be added: American Movie Classics to digital CPST HD Tier on Ch. 1600 and Sundance Channel to DVP, Movie Pass and TMC Premium Tiers on HD Ch. 1646.
Statewide, on or about October 18, 2012, CNBC and CSPAN (currently on analog channel 39 and 56, respectively) will be delivered in digital format only. These channels will remain in your existing package, however they will continue to be viewable with a digital set-top box or CableCARD. In addition, C-SPAN will continue to be viewable on digital TVs (and other devices) that include a QAM tuner on QAM channel 122.3.
[9/22/12] NFL Network! (Wow, ESPN charges $5.15 per subscriber per month!)
[10/1/12] $3.95 a month for the "Lakers" channel?
[6/16/16] The latest lineup from Oceanic (after I rescanned after losing KGMB HD). (The numbers are the corresponding digital channel.). (The lineup from 2015 is here.)
2 66-65
3 46-3
4 115-3
5 49-1
6 48-9
7 48-1
8 49-3
9 KIKU (formerly also on 48-4)
10 49-12
11 154-14
12 99-16
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 51-1
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSN
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 LAKERS
25 47-25 (KALO)
26 134-26
27 46-1
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FAMILY (now FREEFORM)
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 SPIKE
40 BRAVO
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 KPXO HD (favorite 11)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 1)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
47-1 MeTV (favorite 13)
47-2 this
47-3 46-3
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 49-1
47-7 48-1
47-8 49-5
47-10 49-12
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 46-1
48-1 KGMB HD (disappeared yesterday. favorite 4)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 2)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 134-53
54 134-54
55 134-55
56 ZAP2IT
57 76-10
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
66-3 CW HD (favorite 7)
66-63 QVC
66-64 INFO
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DISCVR
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 46-55
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 99-16
98-4 GUIDE (favorite 20)
99-4 OCSPORT (favorite 9)
99-16 OC16 HD (favorite 8)
114-5 KBFD HD (favorite 12)
116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
134-8 CSPN2
134-13 ANTENNA (favorite 14)
134-14 KWHE
134-26 KAAH
134-49 OLELO
134-53 53
134-54 54
134-55 55
[8/10/18] Noticed OC16 was missing as well as COZI and SURF. So I decided to re-scan. SURF moved to 9-4, OC16 moved to 9-16, COZI moved to 83-5. Also I'm getting CW-HD on 105-2, but I don't expect that to last long.
So here's the updated lineup:
2-8 CSPAN2
2-13 ANTENNA
2-14 KWHE
2-26 TBN
9-4 SURF
56-63 QVC
56-64 INFO
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN
78-21 KBS
78-29 State of Hawaii Emergency Operations Center
78-30 TEC
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-10 ON DEMAND previews
83-5 COZI TV
98-4 GUIDE (with music)
[6/26/18] Well, I returned the boxes and canceled Spectrum. But I'm still getting some channels via direct connect. I guess they don't bother disconnecting it since it's now carrying only the few oddball channels. Maybe they think I might re-subscribe?
Anyway I decided to rescan since I wasn't getting a couple channels that I got on previous scan. Here's what I'm getting now.
2-8 CSPAN2
2-13 ANTENNA
2-14 KWHE
2-26 TBN
9-220 Program Guide (silent) [I think this is for the digital transport adapter]
56-63 QVC
56-64 INFO
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN
78-21 KBS
78-29 State of Hawaii Emergency Operations Center
78-30 TEC
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-4 SURF
79-10 ON DEMAND previews
79-16 OC16 SD
98-4 GUIDE (with music)
116-5 COZI TV
No Olelo anymore. I did get CW HD on 108-1 at first, but that lasted less than an hour.
[5/12/18] That was fast. The cable boxes arrived the next day via Priority Mail 1-Day. I hate for them to waste all that postage. I guess they figure they'll make it up eventually with the monthly rental fees.
Hook it up and let's see.
Got some loading message or something on the screen. In the meantime, set up the remote for my TV. Then the power went off on the cable box. Turn it on with the remote.
Then got the message your TV will be right with you. Wait several more minutes.
Now there's a message "To Restore Or Activate Services Call us at 643-2100. But the pamphlet says to call 1-877-309-5869. I wonder if it goes to the same place? I'll call the 877 number since I remember the last time (at the in-laws) I called the local number and I had to speak to somebody.
Activate digital receiver cable box. Nope, went to somebody talking.
Asked for my name, address. Then the last 4-digits of my SS#. Now on hold, waiting for the next person.
Wait a few more minutes and the signal came in.
Let's see. Nope, no Spectrum Sports. Mentioned briefly to the rep that the other rep said I would get Spectrum Sports. She seemed sympathetic. And also gave me a tip that if I pressed Guide twice I would get the option to view only the channels that I subscribe to. OK, that's cool.
Hmm. I'm getting the same problem that I got at the in-laws house. The picture changes every other channel. The solution was to reset the box on their side. But they said if I had that problem next time that I could pull out the power and plug it back in. Let's try that.
Nothing happens when I first plugged in the power. Let me wait a while.
Now it says Acquiring Application Information ...
Then the screen went blank.
OK, let's turn on the power with the remote.
Your TV will be right with you ... [with a countdown ball with a number in it]
then the screen went blank again
then it goes to channel 1016.
OK, not skipping the channels now.
OK, here's the channels.
1 iCONTROL Movies on Demand [shows both free and pay movies and TV]
2 HKBFD
3 KHONHD
4 KITVHD
5 KFVEHD
6 KLEI
7 KGMBHD
8 KHNLHD
9 KIKU
10 KHETHD
11 KWHE
12 SPCSP To receive this channel, call Customer Care at 643-2100
13 Spectrum Sports Enhanced Interactive / [sports highlights on demand]
14 Spectrum OC16 On Demand / [entire games On Demand, including Wahine volleyball] but when I tried Hawaii vs. UCLA HD, it said unavailable / I was able to load a high school baseball game in SD though. Might be a bandwidth problem
15 Spectrum OC16 Interactive
16 OC16
17 XCAST
18 XCAST2
19 XCAST Multiview
20 SPCSU (Surf Channel)
21 Spectrum USurf
25 KALO
26 KAAH
27 KPXOHD (ion)
28 DSTAR
30 EWTN
31 INSP
45 CSPAN
46 CSPAN3
47 CSPAN2
49 olelo (FOCUS)
50 KKAI
53 olelo (NATV)
54 olelo (VIEWS)
55 olelo (OAHU)
56 KUPU (COZI)
61 TBS
79 ARIRANG
80 KBS
81 Korea Lifestyle on Demand (pay)
93 KHON2 HD (CW)
100 Online Cable Billing Center
114 Hawaii News On Demand
126 KITV2 (MeTV)
131 LEASE
132 jtv
150 EVINEHD
152 HSNHD
153 QVCHD / blank screen
154 HSNShop (on demand)
155 SZ9 (Gem Shopping Network)
156 SHOPLC
157 RFN1
158 GEM
160 RFN1
162 SHZL3 (shop zeal)
183 Government On Demand
184 OLELO On Demand
200 SportsChoice multi-screen
330 Free On Demand
332 The Green Channel
342 Information for the Ages
354 EDUTV
355 UHTV
356 TEACH
358 UH Distance Learning On Demand
408 EWTN
409 BYUTV
410 INSP
411 Digitial Instructions (blank screen - I think my signal is marginal)
432 Multi-Screen Mosaic For Kids
443 KHET2 (PBS Kids)
520 QVCHD
541 KHNL2 (Antenna TV)
543 KHON3 (get TV)
544 KGMB2 (this)
546 REELZ
551 TBS
552 HSNHD
596 Free On Demand
620 iCONTROL Movies on Demand
695 KLEI
700 In Demand Barker
782 CSPAN2
783 CSPAN3 (blank)
912 Job Listings (blank)
919 PETS (adoptable Humane Society Pets)
943 Music Choice On Demand
951 OC16 On Demand
953 Hawaii News On Demand
959 Oceanic Sports and Fitness On Demand
963 TW Cable How-To On Demand
975 Primetime On Demand
990 iCONTROL Movies On Demand
1000 iCONTROL Movies On Demand
1002 HKBFD
1003 KHONHD
1004 HKBFD
1005 KFVEHD
1006 KITVHD
1007 KGMBHD
1008 KHNLHD
1010 KHETHD
1013 Spectrum Sports Enhanced Interactive Programming
1014 Spectrum OC16 On Demand
1015 Spectrum OC16 Interactive
1016 OC16
1017 XCAST
1018 XCAST2
1019 Spectrum XCast Multiview HD
1020 Surf Channel
1021 USURF
1027 KPXOHD (ion)
1028 DAYSTAR
1045 CSPAN HD
1046 CSPAN3 HD
1047 CSPAN2 HD
1093 KHON2 HD (CW)
1132 HJEWL
1150 EVINEHD
1152 HSNHD
1153 QVCHD
1154 HSNShop
1316 The Inspire Channel
1320 CookSpace
1326 Oiwi
1330 The Green Channel
1342 Information for the Ages
1408 EWTN
1409 BYUTVHD
1410 INSPHD
1546 REELZHD
1551 TBSHD
1810 KLEI
1975 Primetime On Demand
1990 iCONTROL Movies on Demand
1999 Bulletins On Demand
Yeah, so there are a lot of channels. But the only main channels are FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, TBS, PBS, CW. I get the first five on YouTube TV. I can get CW on demand (but not the live Saturday morning shows). And of course PBS on demand. The other channels I would be interested in are OC16 and XCAST. But I don't know if that's enough for me to cough up $34 a month.
***
[5/11/18] Called Spectrum to cancel my service. Told the rep that the only reason I had been keeping my basic service was that I was getting channels I wasn't supposed to have. And that the main reason was because of Spectrum Sports (and secondarily CW). She said I would still get Spectrum Sports. So I caved and decided to order the cable boxes and see how it is.
Logging into the spectrum app (on my ipad) and watch.spectrum.net (on my laptop) shows the channels I'm supposed to get (theoretically). I'll know for sure when I get the box.
16 - Spectrum OC16 (1016)
31 - insp (410, 1410)
45 - CSPAN (1045)
46 - CSPAN 3 (783)
47 - CSPAN 2 (782, 1047)
132 - jtv (1132)
152 - HSN (154, 1152)
153 - QVC (520)
154 - HSN (152, 1152)
410 - insp (31, 1410)
520 - QVC (153)
782 - CSPAN 2 (47, 1047)
783 - CSPAN3 (46, 1046)
1016 - Spectrum OC16 HD (16)
1045 - CSPAN HD (45)
1046 - CSPAN 3 HD (46, 783)
1047 - CSPAN 2 HD (47, 782)
1132 - jtv HD (32)
1152 - HSN HD (152, 154)
1153 - QVC HD (153, 520)
1154 - HSN HD (152, 154, 1152)
1410 - insp HD (31, 410)
then if you have Spectrum internet at home, you can also watch
2 - KBFD
3 - KHON (Fox)
4 - KITV (ABC)
5 - KFVE
7 - KGMB
8 - KHNL
9 - KIKU
10 - KHET
11 - KWHE
25 - KALO
26 - TBN
27 - ion
28 - Daystar
30 - EWTN (408)
43 - MSNBC (107)
56 - KUPU
61 - tbs
80 - KBS World
93 - CW (1093)
107 - MSNBC (43)
126 - MeTV
150 - evine
156 - SHOP
157 - Shop Zeal (160)
158 - Gem Shopping Network
160 - Shop Zeal (157)
162 - Shop Zeal (160)
408 - EWTN (30)
409 - buyTV
443 - PBS Kids
541 - Antenna TV
544 - this TV
546 - REELZ
551 - tbs
1002 - KBFD
1003 - Fox
1004 - KBFD
1005 - KFVE
1006 - KITV
1007 - KGMB
1008 - KHNL
1010 - PBS
1027 - ion
1093 - CW (93)
1107 - MSNBC
1150 - evin
1408 - EWTN
1409 - buytv
1546 - REELZ
1551 - tbs
I had earlier seen more channels, but maybe I didn't complete log out of the other account. [Actually it was because I was looking at the Guide section not the live TV section.] Looking the networks that's available On Demand, everything is locked out except for FOX, NBC, PBS, PBS Kids, Pop.
We'll see what I get when I get the box. If I don't get Spectrum Sports (as I suspect), I guess I'll return the boxes.
I also asked the rep if they still offer the Basic service because when I tried to downgrade Tom at the Ward office, the guy said it's no longer available. She said it's still available. But I kind of doubt this too.
[5/1/18] The dreaded day has arrived when Spectrum has gone all digital in our area. While most of the channels are gone or encrypted, not all were.
Here's what my scan this morning turned up. I'm going to cancel my service after this, so this will likely be the final lineup I post.
Current Spectrum Channel Lineup (via direct connect, updated 5/1/18)
3 Spectrum's network is now all digital. This channel has moved to a new location. Please go to www.spectrum.com/digitalnow for a complete list of channel locations
9-220 Program Guide (silent) [I think this is for the digital transport adapter]
57-1 Great news! Spectrum TV is now 100% digital in your area. This will require you to have an existing set-top box, CableCARD, or Spectrum receiver on each TV in your home to get service.
57-2 same message as on channel 3
57-10 same message as on channel 57-1
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN
78-21 KBS
78-29 State of Hawaii Emergency Operations Center
78-30 TEC
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-4 SURF
79-10 ON DEMAND previews
79-16 OC16 SD
98-4 GUIDE (with music)
111-63 QVC
111-64 INFO
112-8 CSPAN2
112-13 ANTENNA112-14 KWHE
112-26 TBN
112-49 olelo
112-53 olelo 53
112-54 olelo 54
112-55 olelo55
116-5 COZI TV
[5/9/18 - rescanned after scanning with the Mohu antenna attached. Noticed that the signals are weak when my Roku Stick is attached. Must be interference.]
***
Current Spectrum Channel Lineup (via direct connect, updated 11/25/17)
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (82-14)
12 OC16 (83-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 Spectrum Sports (83-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSW
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 Spectrum Sportsnet
25 KALO (47-25)
26 TBN (82-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD, 47-27 SD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 Spike
40 bravo
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 ion HD (27, 47-27 SD)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 2)
46-4 CW (81-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-3 KHON SD
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 KFVE SD
47-7 KGMB SD
47-8 KHNL SD
47-10 KHET SD
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion SD (27, 46-1 HD)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 2)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD SD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 4)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (82-53)
54 olelo (82-54)
55 olelo (82-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-4 SURF
79-10 ON DEMAND previews
79-16 OC16 SD (83-16 HD)
81-3 CW HD (favorite 7) [changed from 66-3]
81-63 QVC (2) [changed from 66-63]
81-64 INFO [changed from 66-64]
82-8 CSPAN2 [changed from 119-8]
82-13 ANTENNA [changed from 119-13]82-14 KWHE (11) [changed from 119-14]
82-26 TBN (26) [changed from 119-26]
82-49 olelo [changed from 119-49]
82-53 olelo 53 (53) [changed from 119-53]
82-54 olelo 54 (54) [changed from 119-54]
82-55 olelo55 (55) [changed from 119-55]
83-4 Spectrum Sports HD (moved from 99-4, favorite 9)
83-16 OC16 HD (moved from 99-16, favorite 8)
98-4 GUIDE
114-5 KBFD HD116-5 COZI TV
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
2/2/18 - try wait
2/1/18 - Spectrum to go all-digital starting Tuesday. I guess they're going to remove all the analog channels? Are they going to move any more of the analog channels to digital? Well, we'll see if I can still catch anything without a cable box. I think I'll still get the broadcast channels via ClearQAM?
I guess, not. The FCC decided in 2012 that cable companies can encrypt the broadcast channels. Goodbye ClearQAM. I dunno, this blurb just says the cable operator can choose to carry broadcast channels only in digital form and that digital TVs with a QAM tuner should still be able to get them. But this CNET article says that cable operators will be allowed to encrypt basic cable TV service which includes broadcast TV.
If they don't give me OCSports any more, it's probably goodbye Spectrum for me. Stay tuned. [According to this, Spectrum Sports is not included with Basic Service.]
Well, in Akron in November, customers TV went black. OK, not looking good.
Apparently the signals will be encrypted. Not looking good. Maybe time to shop for an antenna.
OK, got a robo-call from Spectrum that they're going all digital. Then I checked my bill in the mail. My bill went up to $34.18 from $27.19 with this notice:
"Spectrum is going 100% digital in your area. We are upgrading your TV service to 100% digital to bring you better picture quality, more channels and great entertainment options. In the coming weeks. all channels will be delivered digitally and your television will require a digital receiver in order to watch these channels. For more information call 643-2100 to learn more about how to receive your equipment."
Well, maybe I'll get the free cable box / digital adapter and see what kind of channels I'll get. [It looks like it's free for two years.] Then maybe cancel the next month if I don't like it.
11/22/17 - XCAST disappeared from 109-2. Re-scanned and XCAST turned up on 110-1 with SURF HD on 110-2. But then they disappeared shortly after that. 11/25/17 - Re-scanned again. SURF HD showed up on 86-5, but was gone a few hours later.
11/5/17 - while going through finish labeling the channels again, I checked to see if the missing channels were back (didn't have to re-scan, but just entered the numbers of the channels that were missing from before, and the TV apparently scans for all the sub-channels of that particular channel.). They're back! PBS Kids (79-1), getTV (79-3), On Demand trailers (79-10), KBFD HD (114-5). 116-5 is also back, but it's now COZI TV instead of the Catholic Channel. SURF also showed up at 79-4, but we'll see if it (and the others) stick around. And XCAST HD (109-2) has stuck around.
***
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 Spectrum Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSW
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 Spectrum Sportsnet
25 KALO (47-25)
26 TBN (119-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD, 47-27 SD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 Spike
40 bravo
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 ion HD (27, 47-27 SD)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 2)
46-4 CW (81-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-3 KHON SD
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 KFVE SD
47-7 KGMB SD
47-8 KHNL SD
47-10 KHET SD
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion SD (27, 46-1 HD)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 2)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD SD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 4)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (119-53)
54 olelo (119-54)
55 olelo (119-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS [gone]
79-3 getTV [gone]
79-10 ON DEMAND [gone]
79-16 OC16 SD (99-16 HD)
81-3 CW HD (favorite 7) [changed from 66-3]
81-63 QVC (2) [changed from 66-63]
81-64 INFO [changed from 66-64]
82-8 CSPAN2 [changed from 119-8]
82-13 ANTENNA [changed from 119-13]82-14 KWHE (11) [changed from 119-14]
82-26 TBN (26) [changed from 119-26]
82-49 olelo [changed from 119-49]
82-53 olelo 53 (53) [changed from 119-53]
82-54 olelo 54 (54) [changed from 119-54]
82-55 olelo55 (55) [changed from 119-55]
83-4 Spectrum Sports HD (moved from 99-4, favorite 9)
83-16 OC16 HD (moved from 99-16, favorite 8)
98-4 GUIDE
114-5 KBFD HD [gone]116-5 CATHOLC [gone]
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
*** [9/30/17]
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 Spectrum Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSW
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 Spectrum Sportsnet
25 KALO (47-25)
26 TBN (119-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD, 47-27 SD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 Spike
40 bravo
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 ion HD (27, 47-27 SD)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 2)
46-4 CW (81-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-3 KHON SD
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 KFVE SD
47-7 KGMB SD
47-8 KHNL SD
47-10 KHET SD
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion SD (27, 46-1 HD)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 2)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD SD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 4)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (119-53)
54 olelo (119-54)
55 olelo (119-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 OC16 SD (99-16 HD)
81-3 CW HD (favorite 7) [changed from 66-3]
81-63 QVC (2) [changed from 66-63]
81-64 INFO [changed from 66-64]
83-4 Spectrum Sports HD (moved from 99-4, favorite 9)
83-16 OC16 HD (moved from 99-16, favorite 8)
98-4 GUIDE
114-5 KBFD HD116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
119-8 CSPAN2 [changed from 134-8]
119-13 ANTENNA [changed from 134-13]
119-14 KWHE (11) [changed from 134-14]
119-26 TBN (26) [changed from 134-26]
119-49 olelo [changed from 134-49]
119-53 olelo 53 (53) [changed from 134-53]
119-54 olelo 54 (54) [changed from 134-54]
119-55 olelo55 (55) [changed from 134-55]
[9/28/17] Noticed that CW HD and the Olelo digital channels were missing, so I decided to rescan. CW is still missing and the Olelo channels have changed their location. The Olelo channels (along with CSPAN2, ANTENNA, KWHE, TBN) have changed from 134 to 119. Now gone: 66-3 CW HD, 66-63 QVC, 66-64 INFO, 78-21 KBS, 78-29 CIVIL, 78-30 TEC. 46-4 CW SD is still there, so I'm hopeful that CW HD might return. But it's not like I watch it very often (I now watch the Arrowverse shows when they come on Netflix -- the CW app is frustrating with their quirky subtitles and long commercial breaks). Oh yeah, Oceanic is now Spectrum.
[9/29/17] Scanned again. 78-21 KBS, 78-29 CIVIL, 78-30 TEC are back. And good news, channel 66 has moved to channel 81. It's now 81-3 CW HD, 81-63 QVC, 81-64 INFO. So didn't lose any channels after all. 108-2 is SURF (which pops up temporarily then goes away). Yesterday also got an XCAST channel that has gone away.
[9/30/17] Noticed Spectrum Sports and OC16 HD were missing last night, so I scanned again. Spectrum Sports has moved from 99-4 to 83-4 and OC 16 HD has moved from 99-16 to 83-16. SURF is gone again, but XCAST showed up on 86-1 and XCAST2 showed up on 108-2 (where SURF had been). We'll see how long they stay up.
***
Current Oceanic Channel Lineup (via direct connect, updated 4/7/17)
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 OC Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSW
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 Spectrum Sportsnet
25 KALO (47-25)
26 TBN (134-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 Spike
40 bravo
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 ION HD (27)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 2)
46-4 CW (66-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-3 KHON SD
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 KFVE SD
47-7 KGMB SD
47-8 KHNL SD
47-10 KHET SD
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion SD (27)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 2)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD SD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 4)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (134-53)
54 olelo (134-54)
55 olelo (134-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
66-3 CW HD (favorite 7)
66-63 QVC (2)
66-64 INFO
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 getTV
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 OC16 SD (99-16 HD)
98-4 GUIDE
99-4 OCSPORT HD (favorite 9)
99-16 OC16 HD (favorite 8)
114-5 KBFD HD
116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
134-8 CSPAN2
134-13 ANTENNA
134-14 KWHE (11)
134-26 TBN (26)
134-49 olelo
134-53 olelo 53 (53)
134-54 olelo 54 (54)
134-55 olelo55 (55)
[4/7/17] Decided to rescan the channels on my Panasonic plasma (because I felt like starting over). Well, not totally nuts because I decided to rescan just the digital channels so as not to lose the labels on the analog. Pretty much no changes. The major difference is that the digital SD channels in the 83-90 range moved to the 47 range. Also this time, no captions were provided by Oceanic during the scan (they had previously provided the channel captions for the main HD channels), so I had to re-input all the digital captions. Also corrected KALO and KAAH. I had them switched on the TV. According to the Zap2It guide, KALO is channel 25 and KAAH is channel 26. I put on TBN instead of KAAH because that's what shows in the corner when you tune to the channel. Similarly I put on ION instead of KPXO. Channel 23 is now Spectrum Sportsnet instead of Time Warner Cable Sportnet (since Spectrum bought out Time Warner Cable).
[10/30/16] Current Oceanic Channel Lineup (via direct connect)
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 OC Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FOXSPT
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 LAKERS (TW Sports)
25 KALO (47-25)
26 KAAH (134-26)
27 ion (46-1 HD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 SPIKE
40 BRAVO
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 KPXO HD (favorite 11)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 1)
46-4 CW (66-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-4 CSPAN
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 ion (27)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 4)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 2)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (134-53)
54 olelo (134-54)
55 olelo (134-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
66-3 CW HD (favorite 7)
66-63 QVC (2)
66-64 INFO
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL (favorite 14)
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 get TV
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 OC16 (99-16 HD)
83 DKHON (46-3)
85 DKFVE (49-1)
87 DKGMB (48-1)
88 DKHNL (49-3)
90 DKHET (49-12)
98-4 GUIDE (favorite 20)
99-4 OCSPORT HD (favorite 9)
99-16 OC16 HD (favorite 8)
114-5 KBFD HD (favorite 12)
116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
134-8 CSPAN2
134-13 ANTENNA (favorite 13)
134-14 KWHE (11)
134-26 KAAH (26)
134-49 OLELO
134-53 olelo 53 (53)
134-54 olelo 54 (54)
134-55 olelo55 (55)
[10/30/16] MeTV is finally back. Along with the other channels on channel 47 such as this and CSPAN. So they were absent about 3-1/2 months. I lived.
[9/11/16] ESPN News no longer on 122-2.
Looking at the web site, it's a Sony company. They have shows like Sonny and Cher, In the Heat of the Night. Not many comedies, but I do see Nanny and the Professor, The Ghost of Mrs. Muir.
Oddly, I don't see it on the regular Oceanic digital lineup (yet). Doing a search, it's channel 2.3 via antenna and channel 373 on DISH.
ESPN News has been on for a while on channel 122-2, so I'll add it to the lineup. And I think I'll move the latest channel lineup at the top of this post and leave the comments below.
[8/6/16] My OCD compels me to rescan. But before rescanning, I'm double-checking the labels (so I can re-enter them after scanning wipes most of them out). Noticed a few more channels. 48-4 is the digital KIKU. 48-5 is KBFD SD. 48-6 is KITV SD.
Nope, still no MeTV. Well there's another hour (or two) wasted (putting back in the captions).
[8/5/16] Noticed a couple more channels popped up on my direct connect channel list. 46-4 CW which is the SD counterpart to 66-3. And 46-56 TEACH-f which looks like a public access channel. I'll add them to the lineup. Still no MeTV. Don't feel like re-scanning right now.
[7/18/16] decided to rescan the Oceanic channels. Now there's nothing in the 47 range. Disappearing were MeTV, this, CSPAN, KALO digital. However the "main" network digital SD channels in that range have been moved to: 83 DKHON, 85 DKFVE, 87 DKGMB, 88 DKHNL, 90 DKHET.
So here's the updated lineup:
2 QVC (66-63)
3 KHON (46-3 HD)
4 KBFD (114-5 HD)
5 KFVE (49-1 HD)
6 KITV (48-9 HD)
7 KGMB (48-1 HD)
8 KHNL (49-3 HD)
9 KIKU (48-4)
10 KHET (49-12 HD)
11 KWHE (134-14)
12 OC16 (99-16 HD)
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 OC Sports (99-4 HD)
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FOXSPT
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 LAKERS (TW Sports)
25 KALO
26 134-26 (KAAH)
27 ion (46-1 HD)
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FREEFRM
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 SPIKE
40 BRAVO
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 KPXO HD (favorite 11)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 1)
46-4 CW (66-3 HD)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
46-56 TEACH-f
47-1 MeTV (waiting for it to come back for me)
47-2 this (ditto)
48-1 KGMB HD (favorite 4)
48-4 KIKU (9)
48-5 KBFD (114-5 HD)
48-6 KITV SD (48-9 HD)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 2)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 olelo (134-53)
54 olelo (134-54)
55 olelo (134-55)
56 ZAP2IT
57 HSN (76-10)
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
66-3 CW HD (favorite 7)
66-63 QVC (2)
66-64 INFO
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DSCVRY
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN (57)
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL (favorite 14)
78-30 TEC (46-55)
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-3 get TV
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 OC16 (99-16 HD)
83 DKHON (46-3)
85 DKFVE (49-1)
87 DKGMB (48-1)
88 DKHNL (49-3)
90 DKHET (49-12)
98-4 GUIDE (favorite 20)
99-4 OCSPORT HD (favorite 9)
99-16 OC16 HD (favorite 8)
114-5 KBFD HD (favorite 12)
116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
122-2 ESPN News
134-8 CSPAN2
134-13 ANTENNA (favorite 13)
134-14 KWHE (11)
134-26 KAAH (26)
134-49 OLELO
134-53 olelo 53 (53)
134-54 olelo 54 (54)
134-55 olelo55 (55)
[7/16/16] Noticed that MeTV is no longer at 47-1 (or anywhere else I can find). I see in the agreements with programmers document dated 7/4/16 that MeTV digital was one of the channels due to expire. It's still listed as channel 126 on the zap2it guide.
[6/17/16] KGMB HD is back on 48.1.
[6/16/16] Well, still no KGMB HD. In fact 48.1 disappeared from the list of channels. So I'm going to do a new scan. The problem with scanning is that all my labels that I inputted disappear and I have to manually set them again. So at the bottom of the post, I will put the latest channel lineup with the labels I had put on.
[6/15/16] As of last night, I noticed that KGMB HD (48.1) has no signal. This doesn't affect me too much since I subscribe to CBS All Access. KGMB SD digital still works (47.9). Couldn't find any notification of this on the Oceanic site. It may be just a local problem to my area like KITV earlier. We'll see how long it takes to come back, if ever. KITV HD took over 2 months before the problem was corrected.
[4/19/16] Lost a few channels this morning. CNBC HD is gone, CW HD is gone, KBFD HD is gone. And OC Sports has moved to 99-4. And it looks like KHON HD is duplicated at 66-3. Or it could be CW HD since they show the morning news at the same time. I'll know in abount 30 minutes. Yep, it's CW. OK, so only CNBC and KBFD are gone with OC Sports and CW moving to new channels.
Let's check the channel lineup at oceanic.com. The lineups have been updated. The digital lineup is dated 4/12/16. The analog link goes to the digital adapter list and is dated 4/13/16. The digital adapter link goes to the digital adapter list dated 6/26/15. That could mean that Oceanic no longer officially supports analog and will phase it out. Here's the old "analog" lineup dated 4/7/14 which lists CNBC on 51.3 and OC Sports on 51.1.
Ah. Here's something. (I don't know how I would find this page if I didn't have it linked below. Well, I guess I can google it.)
"On or about 4/11/16, Oceanic Time Warner Cable will be making technical changes to our cable system that may disrupt our customers’ ability to view unencrypted (“in-the-clear”) channels on a digital television or other device that includes a QAM tuner (a “ClearQAM device”). If this occurs, viewers will need to go into the settings menu on their ClearQAM device and perform a new channel scan in order to resume viewing these channels. Customers using digital cable set-top boxes will not notice any change. In-the-clear channels on Oahu, Maui and Kauai: CW HD from Ch. 50.7 to 66.3; KUPU from Ch. 50.6 to 116.5 (Oahu only); CNBC HD from Ch. 51.5 to 117.2; OCSports HD from Ch. 51.1 to 99.4 and KBFD HD from Ch. 115.3 to 114.5."
OK, rescan and see if I can get CNBC and KBFD back.
(Shucks should have wrote down all the channel number caption descriptions before I scanned because scanning wipes them out. I only scanned the digital, so hopefully the analog captions are not wiped out. Well most of them are at the old list, so no biggie.)
OK there you go. KUPU is the Catholic channel. Whew, the analog captions are still intact. That saves me some work. But my favorites are all wiped out. OK, let's put the favorites back at least.
So now here's my updated favorites on my Panasonic plasma which includes the current HD lineup.
46-3 KHON
49-1 KFVE
48-9 KITV
48-1 KGMB
49-3 KHON
49-12 KHET
66-3 CW
99-16 OC16
99-4 OC Sports
117-2 CNBC HD
46-1 KPXO
114-5 KBFB HD
47-1 MeTV
134-13 Antenna TV
There is now also a channel guide in HD at 98-4. But it's the lineup for digital cable, so it might not be there for long. Actually it looks like it's the listing for those with a digital adapter (e.g. it doesn't have the premium channels), so it might stick around.
The complete channel lineup (before today's changes) is here.
[1/18/16] Hey KITV HD is back. This is contrary to what the Oceanic guy (working at Reef's house last week) told me. He said they're taking away those channels because we're not supposed to get them. I found it odd when I noticed a couple of weeks ago that KITV HD was still available via direct connect at my cousin's house who doesn't live far away (even after my cousin had their service discontinued).
[11/11/15] Lost KITV HD yesterday (48-9). Rescanned. Nope still not there. The KITV SD digital channel 48-6 doesn't come in either (see the analog channel lineup here). Maybe Oceanic lost to rights to telecast it digitally (but no mention here). Maybe they don't even know it's gone. Well, we'll see if it (and when) it comes back.
[9/13/13] Oh well, it didn't last too long. OC Sports HD is no longer on 115.3. Looks like the blacked it out. Funny it was working at 7:00 PM, then I went back to Rosanne and when I came back for the 7:30 PM game (Wahine vs. Northwestern), it was black. And what's worse TW Sports HD is no longer on either at 51.2, though the SD signal is still at 51.4.
Couldn't resist and rescanned. What do you know? OCSports is now back on! And a minute later, it disappeared :( And now it's on again... stay tuned.
[9/11/13] Latest scan. Apparently Ion (KPXO) HD is no longer on direct connect. It used to be on 46-1 for a long time, then I recently saw it on 66-1 for a little while, though I never saw a full screen picture (though transmitting in 720p).
However, more than making up for it is OC Sports back on HD. This time it's on 115.3. I've seen it on for a day or so. We'll see if it lasts (cross fingers). OC Sports is no longer on 82.1 (SD) and 51.1 (HD). Just on 16 and 115.3 (as far as I can see).
That direct connection TV lineup on Oceanic.com is outdated. They do have Me TV on channel 47.1. And Antenna TV on 134.13. CNBC on 51.3. But not This on 47.2.
[11/23/11] A couple more channels on Oceanic
Me TV (channel 126)
and You TV (channel 604) which is actually youtoo.
(Not to be confused with Me Too which is apparently an additional Me TV channel.)
Both are kind of like TV Land showing old shows for the 60s and 70s.
[5/14/12] Antenna TV
[8/13/12] OC16 moving to channel 12 (and vice-versa)
[8/23/12] In the mail, I get a notice that Oceanic is no longer going to carry CNBC on analog. One more reason to drop Oceanic. Looking at the latest agreements with programmers:
Statewide, on or about September 1, 2012, CBS College Sports on digital Ch. 247 and HD channel 1247 may be added to Digital Variety Pak (DVP).
Statewide, on or about September 20, the following new Free on Demand Channels will be added: Cutting Edge on Demand on Ch. 1974, Travel on Demand on Ch. 1970 and Health on Demand on Ch. 1956.
Statewide, on or about September 20, Gay on Demand Pay-Per-View will be added to Ch. 741.
Statewide, on or about October 1, 2012 Time Warner Cable Sports Network will be launched on analog Ch. 23, HD Ch. 400 and digital Ch. 1400 on the CPST tier.
Statewide, on or about October 1, Gospel Music TV Ch. 407 will be added to the Digital Variety Pak.
Statewide, on or about October 1, the following HD channels will be added: American Movie Classics to digital CPST HD Tier on Ch. 1600 and Sundance Channel to DVP, Movie Pass and TMC Premium Tiers on HD Ch. 1646.
Statewide, on or about October 18, 2012, CNBC and CSPAN (currently on analog channel 39 and 56, respectively) will be delivered in digital format only. These channels will remain in your existing package, however they will continue to be viewable with a digital set-top box or CableCARD. In addition, C-SPAN will continue to be viewable on digital TVs (and other devices) that include a QAM tuner on QAM channel 122.3.
[9/22/12] NFL Network! (Wow, ESPN charges $5.15 per subscriber per month!)
[10/1/12] $3.95 a month for the "Lakers" channel?
[6/16/16] The latest lineup from Oceanic (after I rescanned after losing KGMB HD). (The numbers are the corresponding digital channel.). (The lineup from 2015 is here.)
2 66-65
3 46-3
4 115-3
5 49-1
6 48-9
7 48-1
8 49-3
9 KIKU (formerly also on 48-4)
10 49-12
11 154-14
12 99-16
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 FOXNEWS
16 51-1
17 MTV
18 VH1
19 NBCSN
20 FSN
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 LAKERS
25 47-25 (KALO)
26 134-26
27 46-1
28 TBS
29 USA
30 GOLF
31 PRIME
32 NICK
33 DISNEY
34 FAMILY (now FREEFORM)
35 TOON
36 TVLAND
37 SyFy
38 MSNBC
39 SPIKE
40 BRAVO
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 KPXO HD (favorite 11)
46-3 KHON HD (favorite 1)
46-55 TEC355 (also on 78-30)
47-1 MeTV (favorite 13)
47-2 this
47-3 46-3
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 49-1
47-7 48-1
47-8 49-5
47-10 49-12
47-25 KALO (25)
47-27 46-1
48-1 KGMB HD (disappeared yesterday. favorite 4)
48-9 KITV HD (favorite 3)
49-1 KFVE HD (favorite 2)
49-3 KHNL HD (favorite 5)
49-12 KHET HD (favorite 6)
53 134-53
54 134-54
55 134-55
56 ZAP2IT
57 76-10
58 TRAVEL
59 HGTV
60 FOOD
61 E!
62 COMEDY
63 HALLMRK
64 LMN
65 DSCLIFE
66-3 CW HD (favorite 7)
66-63 QVC
66-64 INFO
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 DISCVR
70 ANIMAL
71 TLC
72 HISTORY
73 NATGEO
74 A&E
76-6 CSPAN3
76-10 HSN
78-21 KBS
78-29 CIVIL
78-30 46-55
79-1 PBSKIDS
79-10 DEMAND
79-16 99-16
98-4 GUIDE (favorite 20)
99-4 OCSPORT (favorite 9)
99-16 OC16 HD (favorite 8)
114-5 KBFD HD (favorite 12)
116-5 CATHOLC
117-2 CNBC HD (favorite 10)
134-8 CSPN2
134-13 ANTENNA (favorite 14)
134-14 KWHE
134-26 KAAH
134-49 OLELO
134-53 53
134-54 54
134-55 55
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