Charter gifts Westport, Massachusetts with 16 HD channels

Charter has done its fair share of work to earn a less than stellar reputation as a cable company, but it's looking to help customers out (and, you know, compete) in the Westport, Massachusetts region by setting up a mobile office and adding a whopping 16 HD channels to the lineup. According to Thomas P. Cohan, the company's director of government relations, the company is "working on identifying the equipment and staffing it will need to establish a consistent, part-time, local presence to handle walk-in customer service issues," and it's utilizing a makeshift office 'til then. There's no mention of what high-def stations are being added, but with 16 of them on the way, surely there's one or two in there you'll dig.

[Thanks, Nick]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 14th 2008 9:04AM]

I don't think Charter will be doing enough to get my business at my new house. We are currently on Comcast in the Twin Cities and they have enough HD content where we rarely have to watch SD. However, Charter has an absolute pathetic line up where the new house is and I can't even consider it an option.

I am trying to decide between DirecTV and Dish currently. Which I am not sure how I feel about satellite, but Charter is really leaving me no option at all.