Friday, November 18, 2016

Charter rebrands Bright House (and Time Warner Cable) into its Spectrum brand + free alternatives in the event of Spectrum service outages

I learned earlier this week that Charter Communications had rebranded Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable into the Spectrum brand. The brand was announced to Bright House and Time Warner customers back in May.

My mother's house, where I still live in, has all the equipment needed for our Spectrum services. The equipment was actually carried over from the previous Bright House brand, but Charter decided to replace the Bright House logo on its digital cable systems such as our living room cable box with a Spectrum logo because the equipment was carried over from the Bright House brand.

 If you have a future Spectrum service outage, you can use the following as free alternatives, like my mom and me.


  • Home entertainment equipment such as a VCR or DVD player (for movies and TV shows such as those recorded from a pay TV system), or one or more digital over-the-air (OTA) converters and one or more digital antennas for your TV's. These are used as alternatives to pay TV.
  • Media that was saved to a USB flash drive and a computer's built-in hard drive, such as videos, photos, music, and other audio files, used as a free alternative to media on the Internet. Those files should be downloaded from the Internet to the built-in hard drive on a computer (or to a USB flash drive).
  • Cellphones; used as an alternative to home phone service.