Changes in the TV landscape don’t come too awful often but when they do come, it’s often something that negatively affects fans of smaller genres of shows. The latest hit to anime fans comes from the folks at Verizon FIOS TV who have sent out notice that as of March 15th, they’ll no longer be carrying The FUNimation Channel on their service due to lower viewership. We’re in the heart of Verizon territory here in New England and there’s certainly a good number of anime fans in the area. The overall installed based for FIOS TV in the areas of service is some 4-5 million people out of 15 million homes that can acquire it. A topic of discussion has started on the FIOS site with people organizing ways to try and retain the channel that they enjoy, which you can find here.

Update: FUNimation has put out an official statement on the situation:

We appreciate the outpouring of support from the FUNimation Channel nation regarding this sudden notice. After learning of Verizon FiOS TV’s decision, we are discussing our options to maintain FUNimation Channel’s presence on their platform. We promise to keep our legion of fans posted through our website and social media pages and encourage our fans to call Verizon FiOS TV to voice their opinion.

Chris Beveridge http://www.fandompost.com Chris has been writing about anime, manga, movies and comics for well on twenty years now. He began AnimeOnDVD.com back in 1998 and has covered nearly every anime release that’s come out in the US ever since. He likes to write a lot, as you can see. See author's posts

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