U-Verse channel notifications for August 2025

Is your source for the printed version of USA Today, or do you have some other feed?

@JefferMC U-Verse (AT&T at that point?) changed the channel notification system a while back. USA Today is out of the picture.

Here's how to get them:

1) Press the blue button at the bottom of your remote.

2) Select "channel notices".

From here, the two most important menus are "Additional Changes" and "Channels Newly Noticed".

For a very long time, USA Today would have them on the third Tuesday of each month. On rare occasion, they'd be a few days earlier or later. AT&T also had a website which has since been discontinued. This is where I'd copy them from and I believe TexasGuy37 also did the same thing before me.

In recent months, the on-screen option doesn't seem to update with as much regularity/predicability as USA Today and the AT&T website did, but I did notice that the July updates were released on...the third Tuesday of July. Maybe there's hope.

Are there similar notices or info for local channels?  In the Miami/Ft Lauderdale market, the ABC affiliation just moved to a new outlet. DTV has picked up the change, but as best I can tell, U-Verse has not - they seem to show the new channel in search results but don’t offer the channel itself. 

@Jrandomuser All info, including local channels, should be in those menus. Perhaps the local channel announcement was in a previous month's update.

What's interesting is that, a few years ago, my Fox affiliate moved to a subchannel. A lot of their graphics and whatnot still reference the original channel. On U-Verse, it was channel 28/1028. The call letters reference 6.3, but we still press 1028 to view the channel.

So maybe the channel will never change numbers.

My concern was not that the previous station (owned by Berkshire) which had been the ABC affiliate (under numerous owners and call signs, but always the same channel number) since 1957, would disappear from U-Verse or change channel number (it didn’t do either). It was rather that the new affiliation (a subchannel owned by Sunbeam, which has been a long term station in the market, and currently the Fox affiliate) wasn’t being carried by UxVerse. But it finally showed up several days later (on a new - and previously unused locally - channel number, which had been announced for use by all carriers).  No idea why the delay - the switch had been first announced back in March, and DTV had the new station the day of the switch. 

The interesting part is the six HBO/Cinemax channels that are being sunset.

The only thing that I can come up with why they'd do it is the fact that they have to pay money every time a movie/show airs, regardless of how many people watch. Since the current focus is on HBO Max, they're probably saving money by having that programming sit there in some digital library.

You are probably right in that they have royalty costs associated with the possible viewership on each showing on each channel.  There are also production costs with generating a schedule and transmitting each channel, which are not huge, but they are real. 

It also seems weird that they'd shut down both feeds of a channel. Why not shut down two different west coast feeds? Oh well.

I have a feeling we haven't seen the end of it.