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NEWS: Anime Network Streaming Website Switches to Cable, Video on Demand Only

Which cable provider did you have, if you don't mind me asking? TAN is available on all of the major ones, including Comcast, Spectrum (Time Warner/Charter/Beighthouse)and DirecTV. I know they fell off of some smaller cable systems, and some had replaced it with the Funimation Channel (prior to them shutting down.)

But the availability of dubs and rotation of shows really depended on which provider you had and which package they offered.

So Anime Network isn't doing streaming anymore? And Hulu is removing dozens of Sentai titles. Amazon is looking even more like the new home for Sentai titles.

So I guess this means Ro-Kyu-Bu will not be available in America at all now unless it show up On Demand again.

dragonrider_cody wrote:

Which cable provider did you have, if you don't mind me asking? TAN is available on all of the major ones, including Comcast, Spectrum (Time Warner/Charter/Beighthouse)and DirecTV. I know they fell off of some smaller cable systems, and some had replaced it with the Funimation Channel (prior to them shutting down.) But the availability of dubs and rotation of shows really depended on which provider you had and which package they offered.

Is the DISH Network not one of them? That's what I'm subscribed to and have never found The Anime Channel any time I checked. I have the middle package as I wanted to get channels not normally available on the default package like Discovery Family, The NASA Channel, The Cooking Channel, Boomerang, and GSN (though some have moved to the default package since then). Is it only available on the upper package, is it request-only, or is it not available on DISH at all?

I'm pretty sure that creating a bidding war for the streaming rights to all of these titles is the exact reason this is being done.

No, Dish Network dropped them along with a few other channels some time ago. They've been pretty vocal about not paying for channels for sufficient viewership, and I'm not sure that they support subscription VOD channels at the moment. And their Sling service has very limited offerings.

dragonrider_cody wrote:

No, Dish Network dropped them along with a few other channels some time ago. They've been pretty vocal about not paying for channels for sufficient viewership, and I'm not sure that they support subscription VOD channels at the moment. And their Sling service has very limited offerings.

I see. I have never seen this channel available as part of the DISH service at any time, even when I'd have the guide set to all channels including ones I don't have access to. (And I have deliberately looked for it in the past, albeit infrequently as I can never seem to find it.)

I think you're misunderstanding a bit. Anime Network was never really a channel on Dish. It was only On Demand programming. It wouldn't show up in their channel line ups, only when searching through programming on either Pay Per View or On Demand.

I've never had Dish, so I can't say exactly how it was set up in the past. I just know that it was there for a few years, as they had a content listing on TAN's site and Dish subscribers would give updates when they received, or didn't receive content. It's probably been at least three or four years since they were on there, though I can't remember exactly.