On March 16, 2010, Comcast Cable TV removed the Seattle Channel and Seattle's SCANtv channel within a wide area of White Center, Top Hat, Beverly Park, Boulevard Park, and South Park, in the unincorporated areas of King County known as North Highline. The two removed channels have been replaced with the Burien channel and a channel called PSA77.

These changes appear to relate to the fact that the City of Burien is about to annex a portion of North Highline on April 1st. (No fooling.)
However, NOT all of North Highline is being absorbed by the City of Burien.

The areas that I have listed above will NOT become a part of Burien and will remain in unincorporated King County for the time being. As such, these listed areas should NOT have been cutover to the Burien cable system.

I live in the remaining portion of unincorporated King County that will remain unincorporated after April 1st.

I for one find the two replacement channels to be of very little worth as I do NOT live in the City of Burien, nor will I be living in that city any time soon. Our unincorporated area may, in fact, become a part of the City of Seattle in the future.

Comcast's past practice has been to provide the Seattle Channel and SCANtv to areas in unincorporated King County.
Please restore the Seattle Channel and Seattle's SCANtv to the Comcast systems serving the North Highline Unincorporated areas of King County.

Howard Briggie
North Highline

(Editor's Note: Mr. Briggie received this reply from Comcast:)

As you note in your letter, what happened is that a group of people who share a part of your engineered network with you have annexed into Burien. We had, as a matter of legal agreement, to offer them the Burien channel. Because you all share the same network segment, that means you see the Burien channel now too. I am sorry for the disruption.

The challenge for us is that we want to change our network, recognizing there is a cost to that, but we want to change it once. What we are waiting on is whether the remaining unincorporated areas involved are going to annex into one city or other. Once we know that, we will invest the money to arrange it so people have the required channel lineup for the annexing jurisdiction. Until we know that, the issue is in a sort of limbo. I very much apologize for that; obviously whoever designed the network had no idea that the area would someday be segmented among jurisdictions in this method and timeframe.

Walter Neary
Public Relations Director, Comcast