TV Channels at Fort Wilderness (completely unlike other resort hotels)

KentB3

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
I'm surprised I have not found this anywhere else on the Internet, but according to Fort Fiends (a website about Disney's Fort Wilderness campground and cabins), it appears that FW has a completely different cable channel lineup than the other resorts, which seems odd to me! Here is the list of channels:

7.1 NBC Local
7.2 CBS Local
8.1 ABC Local
8.2 WUCFO (PBS)
9.1 CW 18
9.2 WOFL 35 -- Local FOX Affiliate
10.1 WRDQ 27
10.2 WHLV 52
11.1 WACX 55
11.2 WOPX 56
12.1 WRBW 65
12.2 WTGL 45
13.1 Duffy The Bear
13.2 Company Clips
14.1 ESPN Wild World of Sports
14.2 Walt Disney World Today
15.1 Disney Vacation Club
15.2 Disney Must Do
15.3 Your Next Disney Vacation
16.1 Radio Disney
16.2 Occasional WDW Video
16.3 Occasional WDW Video
17.1 WDW Tour (Spanish)
17.2 DVC (Spanish)
17.3 TV Japan
17.4 WOTF 43 (Telefutura)
18.1 (plays old Disney cartoons)
18.2 Occasional WDW Video
18.3 Downtown Disney Channel
19.1 Your Disney Resort
20.1 ABC Family
20.2 Headline News
20.3 Oxygen
20.4 Lifetime
21.1 Lifetime Movies
21.2 ESPN
21.3 ESPN Classic
21.4 ESPN2
22.1 ESPNews
22.2 ESPN Deportes
22.3 Disney XD
22.4 Disney Channel
23.1 Program Guide
23.2 Food Network
23.3 History
23.4 The Learning Channel
24.1 TV Land
24.2 Animal Planet
24.3 Cooking Channel
24.4 HGTV
25.1 Soapnet
25.2 BET
25.3 A&E
25.4 Weather Channel
26.1 CNBC
26.2 MSNBC
26.3 CNN
26.4 Golf Channel
27.1 FOX News
27.2 NFL Network
27.3 USA
27.4 National Geographic
28.1 Destination America
28.2 Biography
28.3 TBS
28.4 ESPNU
29.1 AMC
29.2 Discovery
29.3 SyFy
29.4 CMT
30.1 Bravo
30.2 NBC College Sports
30.3 TNT
30.4 WE tv
31.1 Travel Channel
31.2 CBS College Sports
31.3 Disney Junior
31.4 MLB Network

The channel lineup is also unusual since every channel is broken up into 2-4 subchannels. I never knew that Disney (or anyone else!) could break up each channel into subchannels with different cable networks (ie: 21.1 Lifetime Movies, 21.2 ESPN, 21.3 ESPN Classic, 21.4 ESPN2) on a subchannel within a single channel number and even WDW Resort TV channels (ie: 14.1 ESPN Wild World of Sports, 14.2 Walt Disney World Today, 15.1 Disney Vacation Club, 15.2 Disney Must Do, 15.3 Your Next Disney Vacation). I have only heard of over-the-air broadcast TV channels using subchannels, and thought they were the only ones able to do that.
 

slappy magoo

Well-Known Member
Just a guess, but maybe Disney's tooling around with a new setup and Fort Wilderness is their "test market." I'd imagine WDW has its own satellite receiving the feeds from all the networks and can designate them to any channel they deem suitable much the same way the Disney channel HD might be 307 in my market but 823 in yours.
 

KentB3

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
We were at Wilderness Lodge last week and I did a double take when I thought I saw a DirecTV guide on screen....

Was the lineup the same as Fort Wilderness Campground (which I posted above), or was it the resort hotel channel lineup? Here is the current resort hotel lineup, according to AllEars.net:

2 Resort Information
3 Guide
4 WDW Today
5 WDW Must Do
7 Disney Vacation Club
8 WFTV-TV (ABC Affiliate)
9 WESH-TV (NBC Affiliate)
10 WKMG-TV (CBS Affiliate)
11 WOFL-TV (Fox Affiliate)
12 The Weather Channel
13 Disney Channel
14 Disney Junior
15 Disney XD
16 ABC Family
17 Duffy the Disney Bear's Bedtime Stories
18 Radio Disney
19 ESPN
20 ESPN2
21 ESPN News
22 ESPN U
23 ESPN Classic
24 ESPN Desportes
25 ESPN Wide World of Sports (News & Events)
26 Major League Baseball Network
27 NFL Network (Football)
28 CBS Sports Network
29 NBC Sports Network
30 Golf Network
31 Headline News
32 CNN
33 CNBC (Financial News)
34 MSNBC
35 Fox News Channel
36 Company Clips
37 TBS
38 TNT
39 USA Network
40 AMC
41 Discovery Channel
42 National Geographic
43 History Channel
44 Animal Planet
45 Travel Channel
46 Destination America
47 Disney Vacation
48 Biogrpahy
49 TLC
50 Food Network
51 Cooking Channel
52 HGTV
53 A & E
54 BET
55 Oxygen
56 Lifetime
57 Lifetime Movie Network
58 WEtv
59 Bravo
60 TV Land
61 Soap Network
62 SyFy
63 CMT
64 WKCF (CW Network)
65 WUCF-TV (PBS Affiliate)
66 WRDQ (Independent)
67 WHLV-TV
68 WACX
69 WOPX (ION Network Television)
70 WRBW (Independent)
71 WTGL (Independent)
73 Disney Must Do (Spanish)
74 Disney Vacation Club (Spanish)
76 Disney Must Do (Spanish)
77 Disney Vacation Club (Spanish)
78 Disney Info
79 Disney Info
80 Disney Info
 

KentB3

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
Just a guess, but maybe Disney's tooling around with a new setup and Fort Wilderness is their "test market." I'd imagine WDW has its own satellite receiving the feeds from all the networks and can designate them to any channel they deem suitable much the same way the Disney channel HD might be 307 in my market but 823 in yours.

That is a possibility, especially since there is a Resort TV channel not carried on the regular channel lineup, Downtown Disney Channel on channel 18.3.
 

brokedad

Active Member
Funny you mentioned that, lsst year at the camp ground, I used their cable hookup and swore my tv was screwed up, I remembered that the lineup was way better and better variety, another reason that fwc is the best resort, since71'
 

MaryJaneP

Well-Known Member
Just guessing here but when we connect our TV here to cable, without the cable company's digital transport adapter, we get the channels in decimal lineup. However, when we connect and activate the cable company's digital transport adapter, then channel lineup changes and all the channels are numerically whole (no decimals). Does FWC provide and activate a cable digital transport adapater (or similar cable-box) for each connection in the campground?

P.S. Also noticed there were almost equal numbers of channels (78 in first post, 79 in Allears listing) and some other differences (MLB, Disney Info, Spanish channels)
 
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Tuvalu

Premium Member
Was the lineup the same as Fort Wilderness Campground (which I posted above), or was it the resort hotel channel lineup? Here is the current resort hotel lineup, according to AllEars.net:

2 Resort Information
3 Guide
4 WDW Today
5 WDW Must Do
7 Disney Vacation Club
8 WFTV-TV (ABC Affiliate)
9 WESH-TV (NBC Affiliate)
10 WKMG-TV (CBS Affiliate)
11 WOFL-TV (Fox Affiliate)
12 The Weather Channel
13 Disney Channel
14 Disney Junior
15 Disney XD
16 ABC Family
17 Duffy the Disney Bear's Bedtime Stories
18 Radio Disney
19 ESPN
20 ESPN2
21 ESPN News
22 ESPN U
23 ESPN Classic
24 ESPN Desportes
25 ESPN Wide World of Sports (News & Events)
26 Major League Baseball Network
27 NFL Network (Football)
28 CBS Sports Network
29 NBC Sports Network
30 Golf Network
31 Headline News
32 CNN
33 CNBC (Financial News)
34 MSNBC
35 Fox News Channel
36 Company Clips
37 TBS
38 TNT
39 USA Network
40 AMC
41 Discovery Channel
42 National Geographic
43 History Channel
44 Animal Planet
45 Travel Channel
46 Destination America
47 Disney Vacation
48 Biogrpahy
49 TLC
50 Food Network
51 Cooking Channel
52 HGTV
53 A & E
54 BET
55 Oxygen
56 Lifetime
57 Lifetime Movie Network
58 WEtv
59 Bravo
60 TV Land
61 Soap Network
62 SyFy
63 CMT
64 WKCF (CW Network)
65 WUCF-TV (PBS Affiliate)
66 WRDQ (Independent)
67 WHLV-TV
68 WACX
69 WOPX (ION Network Television)
70 WRBW (Independent)
71 WTGL (Independent)
73 Disney Must Do (Spanish)
74 Disney Vacation Club (Spanish)
76 Disney Must Do (Spanish)
77 Disney Vacation Club (Spanish)
78 Disney Info
79 Disney Info
80 Disney Info
Just returned from Pop Century on Monday, the channel lineup is exactly what you posted. It is DirectTV.
 

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