I'm No Sailor, but I took the Warning

So my 30 year wait to finally see Red Sky at Morning again was almost over, when I get this strange phone-call. This was Wednesday evening and it was a recorded call. I almost hung up on it thinking it was another in a long line of calls on California propositions being voted on next week. I have already made up my mind on the major ones, so I don't need any coaching from whomever has recoded the message. I almost hung up that is until I realized the call was from Time-Warner Cable.

We have happily been a subscriber to Adelphia for over nine years when a month or so ago Adelphia was absorbed by Time-Warner. I'm not the only person finding themselves with Time-Warner, millions of people across the country have had this happen to them. As you may know, Adelphia was destroyed from within by its founder John Rigas, a sniveling little creep who banned soft-core porn from his cable and preached high morals while through fraud and theft stealing $4 billion from the Adelphia coffers. He bankrupted his own company and sent it into insolvency. Time-Warner and Comcast cut it up and if you were an Adelphia customer, you either ended up a Time-Warner customer or a Comcast customer. We got stuck with Time-Warner.

Anyway, back to the call. The recording mentions something about them moving all of the channels around and how they sent me a notice and a new channel listing card. I admit that I no longer pay the bills in my house, that task has fallen to my wife to perform, so I never open up anything that looks like a bill. But I quickly search the recent mail and there it is. It ends up they moved just about everything between channel 50 and channel 950 but I knew nothing about it and I also wasn't sure what date it was all to take place since it said the listing was for November.

I knew that Red Sky At Morning was going to tape the next morning (today) at 7:00 AM on channel 141, The Sundance Channel. I quickly checked 141 and it was indeed The Sundance Channel. I didn't know when it was starting, but it wasn't yesterday.

I woke up this morning at 6:45 AM, went downstairs and turned on the TV. There were no messages from TiVo that any channels had changed. I turn to channel 141; it does not exist. I look at the schedule and TiVo is still planning on recording 141 at 7:00 for two hours of Red Sky At Morning. First I tell TiVo to cancel that recording. Next I pull out the new Channel Listing and find out that The Sundance Channel is now on two different channels. I pick 125 and I tell TiVo to record it. It tells me that that is Fox Sports Network and will record the 30 minute soccer show that is on at that time. I tell TiVo to record an extra hour and a half. Then I sit there and I wait.

At 7:00 Am on channel 125 my TiVo recorded Red Sky At Morning. I'm so very glad I heeded that warning.