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Sat Mar-12-11 11:35 PM
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Comcast unscrambles TV Japan channel to view quake, tsunami news

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Comcast has unscrambled TV Japan, a 24-hour Japanese news channel, so its digital cable customers in California can watch coverage of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami.

The network is normally a premium channel, but it will be available for all digital cable subscribers on Channel 330 until next Friday, said Comcast spokesman Andrew Johnson.

"English translation is available on the channel's secondary audio program SAP (but) there have been some minor glitches with the translation service this morning," Johnson said in an e-mail.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=84840&tsp=1

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