Optimum’s channel lineup has 420+ channels, including local network affiliates, basic cable staples, and popular favorites. The Select and Premier packages even include free premium channels. But to get Optimum cable TV, you’ll have to bundle with Optimum internet service.
The table below shows Optimum’s available channels and the packages containing them. “Optional” means the channel is available as an add-on for an additional monthly fee.
| Channel | Core TV (220+ channels) | Select TV (340+ channels) | Premier TV (420+ channels) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5StarMax | Optional | Optional | Optional |
A&E | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ABC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ACC Network | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| ActionMAX | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Afrotainment Plus | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| AMC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| American Heroes Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Animal Planet | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Antena 3 | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Antenna Satellite | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Antenna TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ART | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| aspireTV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Atres Series | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Azteca America | Optional | Optional | Optional |
BBC America | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BBC World News | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| beIN SPORTS | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| beIN SPORTS en Español | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| BET | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BET Her | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BFMTV | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Bloomberg TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Boomerang | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bounce | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bravo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BTN | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| BUZZR | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
C-SPAN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| C-SPAN 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| C-SPAN 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Canal America | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Canal Sur | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Caracol | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| CaribVision | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Cartoon Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cartoon Network (SAP) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Catholic Faith Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CBS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CBS Sports Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CCTV-4 | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| CEEN | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Centroaméricatv | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Channel 1 Russia | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Cheddar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cinelatino | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Cine Mexicano | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Cinemax GO East | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Cinemax GO West | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| CINEMAX® | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Classic Arts Showcase | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CMT | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CNBC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CNN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CNN en Español | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| CNN Headline News | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comedy Central | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cooking Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Court TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cowboy Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| COZI TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CPTV Create TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Crime & Investigation Network HD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CTS America | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Cuba Play | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| CW | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
DABL | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daystar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Destination America | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discovery Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discovery en Español | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Discovery Familia | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Discovery Family Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discovery Life | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Disney Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Disney Junior | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Disney XD | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Disney XD (SAP) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| DIY Network | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dominican View | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| DW Deutsch | Optional | Optional | Optional |
E! | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ecuavisa Internacional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| El Rey Network | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Eros Now On Demand | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| ESPN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ESPN Deportes | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| ESPN Goal Line | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| ESPN2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ESPNEWS | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ESPNU | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| Estrella TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ET Global NY | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Euronews | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| EWTN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| EWTN Español | Optional | Optional | Optional |
Fight Network | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| Flix | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| Food Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FOROtv | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| FOX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FOX Business Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FOX College Sports Atlantic | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| FOX College Sports Central | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| FOX College Sports Pacific | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| FOX Deportes | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| FOX News Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FOX Soccer Plus | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| FOX Sports 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FOX Sports 2 | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| Freeform | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| fuse | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fusion | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FX Movie Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FXX | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FYI | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Galavisión | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Game+ | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| Get TV | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| GMA Pinoy TV | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| GOL TV | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| GOL TV (SAP) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Golf Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Great American Country | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GSN | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hallmark Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hallmark Drama | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hallmark Movies & Mysteries | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HBO® | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| HBO Family | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| HBO Latino | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| HBO Signature | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| HBO Zone | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| HBO2 | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Heroes & Icons | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HGTV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| History | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| History en Español | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| HITN | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| HOLA TV | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| HSN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HSN2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
i24NEWS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| i24NEWS (French) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| IFC | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| INTI Network | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Investigation Discovery | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ION | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ITV Gold | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| iTVN | Optional | Optional | Optional |
Jewelry Television | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Jewish Broadcasting Service | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Jus Punjabi | Optional | Optional | Optional |
KBS World | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Kids Central | Optional | Optional | Optional |
Laff TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lifetime | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lifetime Movie Network (LMN) | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| Localish HD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| LOGO TV | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
MÁS CHIC | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| MavTV | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| MBC | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Mediaset Italia | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Mega Cosmos | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| MeTV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MGM HD | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| MLB Network | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| MoreMAX | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| MOTOR TREND | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MovieMAX | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Movies! Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MSG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MSG Plus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MSNBC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MTV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MTV2 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MTV Classic | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MTV Live | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MTV Tres | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| My9 (MyNetworkTV) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Nat Geo Mundo | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Nat Geo WILD | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nat Geo Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NBA TV | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| NBC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NBC Universo | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| New York 1 News | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| News 12 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| News 12 Traffic & Weather | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Newsmax | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NFL Network | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| NFL RedZone | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| NHL Network | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| Nick Jr. | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nickelodeon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nicktoons TV | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Noire Africa | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| NTD TV | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| NTN24 | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| NTV America | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| NYC Life | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Olympic Channel | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optimum Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OTB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ ✓ |
| Outdoor Channel | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| OuterMAX | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| OWN | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Oxygen | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Paramount Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pasiones | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| PBS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PBS A | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PBS Kids Thirteen | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PBS WLIW All Arts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PBS WLIW Create | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PBS WLIW World | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Phoenix InfoNews | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Phoenix North America (Chinese Channel) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Pop | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
QVC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| QVC2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
RAI Italia | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| RCN Novelas | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| RCN Nuestre Tele | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| REELZ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RTN | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| RTPi | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| RTR Planeta | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| RTVI | Optional | Optional | Optional |
Science Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SEC Network | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| SET | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Shanson TV | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Shop HQ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SHOWTIME® | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| SHOWTIME 2 West | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| SHOWTIME Beyond | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| SHOWTIME Extreme | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| SHOWTIME Family Zone | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| SHOWTIME Next | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| SHOWTIME Showcase | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| SHOWTIME West | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| SHOWTIME Women | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| Smithsonian Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sony Movie Channel | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Sportsman Channel | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| SportsNet New York | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SPT | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Start TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| STARZ® | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| STARZ Cinema | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| STARZ Comedy | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| STARZ Edge | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| STARZ ENCORE | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| STARZ ENCORE Action | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| STARZ ENCORE Black | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| STARZ ENCORE Classic | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| STARZ ENCORE Español | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| STARZ ENCORE Family | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| STARZ ENCORE Suspense | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| STARZ ENCORE Westerns | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| STARZ in Black | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| STARZ Kids & Family | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| Stingray Music | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sundance TV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supercanal Caribe | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| SUR Perú | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Syfy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tarima | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TBS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Teen Nick | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Teleformula | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Telemicro Internacional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Telemundo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Televisión Dominicana | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TeleXitos | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tempo | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Tennis Channel | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| The Chinese Channel | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| The Filipino Channel | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| The Israeli Channel | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| The Korean Channel (TKC) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| ThrillerMAX | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| THT | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TLC | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TMC | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TMC West | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TMC Xtra | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TNT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Travel Channel | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| truTV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TUDN | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| Turner Classic Movies | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TV Asia | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TV Chile | Optional | ✓ | Optional |
| TV Globo | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TV Japan | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TV Land | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TV One | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TV Quisqueya | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TV Record | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TV5MONDE | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TVE internacional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| TVG Network | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| TVN24 | Optional | Optional | Optional |
UniMás | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Universal Kids | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Univisión | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Univisión tlnovelas | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| UP | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| USA Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Ve Plus | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| VH1 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| VICE TV | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Videorola | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| ViendoMovies | Optional | Optional | Optional |
WAPA America | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| WE tv | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weather Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WGN America | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Willow | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| WLNY | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WMBC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| World Fishing Network | Optional | Optional | ✓ |
| WRNN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
YES Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Z Living | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zee TV | Optional | Optional | Optional |
Data as of 06/29/20. Offers and availability may vary by location and are subject to change.
Optimum channel lineup FAQ
Does Optimum have the DIY Network?
Optimum has the DIY Network in its Select and Premier bundles (starting at $79.99 a month). You can learn more about Optimum bundles in our Optimum TV review.
What TV packages does Optimum have?
Optimum has three TV packages: Core (220+ channels), Select (340+ channels), and Premier (420+ channels). Optimum sells these TV packages only in double-play or triple-play bundles, which start at $79.99 per month.
Does Optimum have the Hallmark Channel?
You can find the Hallmark Channel—as well as Hallmark Drama and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries—in Optimum’s Select and Premier TV packages. Select bundles start at $79.99 a month and Premier bundles start at $99.99 per month. For more information, read our Optimum TV review.
