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Canceled channels
Telus is losing basically all the channels I watch (MTV, hgtv, cooking, bravo). This feels like a breach of contract since I agreed to these specific channels in packages. What are my options for leaving Telus? I have a contract and have a long time til it expires.
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Guess I need to switch to Rogers then. Every channel and show I regularly watch is gone. The new rebranded channels are missing everything.
- That’s what they want you to do.Sent from my iPad
- Alternatively - you can pay for City+. No guarantee this couldn’t happen at Roger’s. I see Discovery has been added back to the Telus channels
But for how long?
One solution is to subscribe to Discovery+ … $5.99 or $8.99/month … annoying, but a workaround. I’m missing some of the shows that were on Discovery. This service also has HGTV, Food Network and other
- Nighthawk
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Discovery wants people subscribe to Discovery+. Discovery+ also should lose any of the Canadian content that Bell still owns the rights to now. Rogers, as part of the deal to acquire the channels from Bell also moved a lot of content to their paid streaming service, CityTV+.
If you would like to make a CRTC complaint about Rogers’ behavior here is the link :https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/contact/question.htm#tv_programming_availability
Looks like i will be changing providers next week. Very poorly played TELUS, you are loosing not only myself but my whole family due to this poorly executed change. I am sure man will follow.
I totally agree.. We were following Gold Rush and Freddy Dodge.
I agree totally agree. We were also following Gold Rush and Freddy Dodge
HGTV & Food will still exist under new names.
Minus any content from outside Canada though
You are wrong, the renamed channels for HGTV and Food (I think they are called Home and Flavour) still have non-Canadian content, and some new stuff that I never saw on the network before. I actually like Flavour better than it was before as I can now watch Gordon Ramsay and Guy Fieri without having to change channels.
I actually hope TELUS doesn't launch Rogers' channels as all it will do is increase their costs which will be passed onto us. We can already get this stuff on Discovery+
They are only losing magnolia and MTV. The other two channels are getting renamed
Magnolia is apparently being relaunched
Discovery channel getting dumped is big. USA network isn't even close. Renaming the other channels and removing USA content is also a killer. It's basically tv shrinkflation.
Agreed --- seems like USA network replaces some of the newer discovery stuff with wrestling and repeats of old dramas, although it still had some stuff that was on Discovery but not 100% the same. Glad to see that Discovery is back today, hopefully Rogers doesn't muck it up and make it worst than it was before (I just got Discovery+, so I'll have to decide which I want, looking at the program grid for Discovery channel doesn't show anything that I can't get on Discovery+).
You asked how to cancel, here are the instructions.
https://www.telus.com/en/support/article/cancel-telus-home-services
- FuzzyLogic
There is some info here regarding the changes (December 1):
Rates increasing as of yesterday, with the switch to low-budget copycat channels filled with ancient reruns... what a bargain!
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