INSP Gains Comcast Subs

By Kent Gibbons
published

INSP said it gained more than 1.3 million new Comcast subscribers in the cable company’s West Division, including California (San Francisco, Fresno, San Jose, and Sacramento); Washington (Seattle) and Minnesota (the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul).

The launches came on May 7, the programmer said. Comcast West Division subscribers can now find INSP on channel 223 in California, channel 230 in Washington and channel 162 in the Twin Cities area, it said.

The latest Nielsen figures (June 2014) show the Inspiration Networks outlet in about 58 million homes. It has suffered a net loss of 19.1 million subscribers since January, per Nielsen, due to coming off DirecTV in March, after apparently declining to continue paying for carriage.

Kent Gibbons
Kent Gibbons

Kent has been a journalist, writer and editor at Multichannel News since 1994 and with Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He is a good point of contact for anything editorial at the publications and for Nexttv.com. Before joining Multichannel News he had been a newspaper reporter with publications including The Washington Times, The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal and North County News.