What the blazes is happening to SAP in Arg TV???

[gpop]

It's been creeping in like the blob absorbing any English programing and spitting out the English!

Arg TV is bad enough when a channel repeats, and heavily promotes the same 6 episodes of a series for an entire season then do a marathon of those same 6 episodes, then stretch it out over the next year as well as if its a bonus.
Now thy are nixing the SAP audio altogether for shows that I know have been previously aired with the English track fully available (case in point Bones, American Dad, Family Guy, on FX). Or worse, I've started to watch movies (Airplane) with SAP on and half way through the first 1/2 hour the language changes to Spanish. WTF??? Even the kids channels often don't have the English track available even if the option exists for that show.

Either this is strategic on the part of the channel, or some programming director doesn't know/care/want to provide this option, or a tech along the line dropped the ball.
If someone with a broadcasting background knows about where this oversight might be... please let me know. I mean is it FX, who desides, Cablevision, government?
I pay lots to get cable so that I can kick back and recharge my brain with some mindless English entertainment, so I'd love to know where to send the complaint.
Is there a cable provider/package that has for-sure SAP or language control?
Anyone?

 

[bebero]

I have cablevision digital and i never had a problem. have you called and asked?

 

[gpop]

I have cablevision digital and i never had a problem. have you called and asked?

No, I'm not sure which entity is responsible for this feature... the web sites don't have much to say on this as far as I know.
Thanks though, I will look into it.

 

[Ashley]

our SAP disappeared completely 8/9 months ago. In the past year, our channel order also got mixed around several times and a few channels disappeared altogether. I finally cancelled the service 3 months ago and while I am no longer billed, they have yet to disconnect us! I think we have cablevision.

 

[KevinK]

Unfortuneately this has been happening for years and is getting worse.
Example on both directtv and cablevision all nfl games were with sap..about three years ago fox moved all nfl for latin america to come out of mexico and since then they do not transmit the games in english. it seems that it does not pay them to buy two audio signals on their feeds so mostly they dont..i have been slowly moving to where i basically watch tv via internet and directly purchase the sports packages on the internet (like the nfl) and then see how and the way i want... its lousy that this has happened bit it is even though the tech is clearly available for them to use...

 

[TeacherDeIngles]

I heard through a student that it's the government control of how many programs can be in English, they want them dubbed so people don't have to read the subtitles.

 

[irina]

NatGeo was always my favorite channel here, while it was dubbed without subtitles you could always turn on SAP to watch the original soundtrack. They stopped the SAP at the end of November and my just hasn't been the same without my Locked up Abroad!

Regarding the channels being switched around, Cablevision has done that twice in the past year. Rearranged the order of the channels...dunno why, they do warn you though with some ticker tape type warning at the bottom of the screen throughout the few days leading up to the change.

 

[AngelinBA]

It is definitely getting worse, and the sad thing is that it means I end up spending more and more time at Sony and Warner Channel to watch the programs in English! (one more repeat of 2 1/2 men and I'll SCREAM!!!)

 

[KevinK]

as i said get strongvpn then use netflix abc cbs nbc fox etc as if from usa

 

[irina]

as i said get strongvpn then use netflix abc cbs nbc fox etc as if from usa

Yeah, I've heard that's good. It's just that I don't spend a lot of time watching TV here, just a show or two before bed.