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.

GSN re-acquires Wheel of Fortune reruns with the 2013-14 season

GSN has re-acquired reruns of the nighttime syndicated Wheel of Fortune after it had been off the schedule since 2010.

The network will air the 2013-14 season of Wheel at 11:00 and 11:30AM.

Clips from other past seasons of Wheel can be found on the Internet, such as closing credits on Dailymotion.

QVC dropped from Bright House analog cable lineup

I'm sorry to report that QVC has been dropped from Bright House Networks' analog cable channel lineup. QVC Plus can be found on digital channel 162.

QVC is also dropped from my grandmother Zoe Ann Clark's channel lineup for less than a decade.

For those of you who don't have QVC on analog cable anymore, check out the QVC live webstream on their official website.

Click here to watch QVC live!

Shannon Fox replaces Lesley Ann Machado as Guy Yovan's co-host on HSN Today

At HSN, Guy Yovan stays the same on HSN Today, but with Shannon Fox replacing Lesley Ann Machado as Guy's co-host. The change would officially take effect today, resulting in Lesley moving to sometime after HSN Today.

Garry Marshall dies of pneumonia at 81

Garry Marshall, the creator of ABC's Happy Days, died yesterday of pneumonia at 81!

I used to watch Garry's creation even before school, during the last year or so of grade school at Northwest Elementary, and Happy Days ran on ABC from 1974-1984.

Kathy Wolf leaves HSN

After 24 years, HSN host Kathy Wolf has left the network. She decided to retire and HSN will really miss her!

Charter is done acquiring Time Warner Cable and Bright House

Charter Communications, a US cable company, has finally acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks for a lot of money. The three companies will merge into one sometime soon, and in the Tampa Bay area, Bright House's TV, Internet, and home phone services will be available under Charter's Spectrum brand.

The Tampa Bay cable company is still called Bright House as of now.

Our cable company will soon have a different name: Charter Spectrum!