Xfinity Popular TV is Xfinity’s standard cable package. We recommend Xfinity Popular for folks who want a full TV experience but don’t need any specialty channels.
If you’re looking to compare Popular with another Xfinity cable package, check out our full Xfinity channel lineup.
As of now, we count 125+ total channels in Xfinity Popular. For more details, check out the Popular channel table below and the on-demand, premium, and Latino add-on packs that follow.
Xfinity Popular channel lineup (may vary by region)
Channels |
Popular 125+ channels |
---|---|
A&E | ✔ |
ABC | ✔ |
afro | ✔ |
AMC | ✔ |
American Heroes Channel (AHC) | — |
Animal Planet | ✔ |
ASPiRE | ✔ |
AT&T Sportsnet | ✔ |
BBC America | ✔ |
BET Her | — |
Black Entertainment Television (BET) | ✔ |
Bloomberg | ✔ |
Bravo | ✔ |
Cartoon Network | — |
CBS | ✔ |
CBS Sports Network | — |
Cleo TV | ✔ |
CNBC | ✔ |
CNN | ✔ |
Comedy Central | ✔ |
Comedy.TV | ✔ |
Cooking Channel | — |
C-SPAN | ✔ |
C-SPAN2 | ✔ |
C-SPAN3 | ✔ |
Destination America | — |
Discovery Channel | — |
Discovery Family Channel | — |
Discovery Life Channel | — |
Disney Channel | ✔ |
Disney Junior | — |
Disney XD | — |
E! | ✔ |
ESPN | ✔ |
ESPN2 | ✔ |
ESPNews | — |
ESPNU | — |
Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) | ✔ |
First Nations Experience | ✔ |
Flix | — |
Food Network | ✔ |
FOX | ✔ |
Fox Business | ✔ |
Fox News Channel | ✔ |
Fox Sports 1 | ✔ |
Fox Sports 2 | ✔ |
Freeform | ✔ |
FX | ✔ |
FX Movie Channel | — |
FXX | ✔ |
FYI Channel | — |
Galavision | ✔ |
Game Show Network (GSN) | ✔ |
Golf Channel | ✔ |
Hallmark Channel | ✔ |
Hallmark Drama | — |
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries | ✔ |
History | ✔ |
HLN | ✔ |
Home & Garden Television (HGTV) | ✔ |
HSN | ✔ |
i24 News English | — |
IFC | — |
Impact Network | ✔ |
INSP | ✔ |
Investigation Discovery | ✔ |
JBS | ✔ |
Jewelry Television | ✔ |
Justice Central | ✔ |
Lifetime | ✔ |
Lifetime Movies | ✔ |
Logo | — |
MLB Network | — |
MotorTrend | ✔ |
MSNBC | ✔ |
MTV | ✔ |
MTV Live | ✔ |
MTV2 | — |
Nat Geo Wild | — |
National Geographic | ✔ |
NBA TV | — |
NBC | ✔ |
Newsmax TV | ✔ |
NewsNation | ✔ |
NFL Network | — |
NHL Network | — |
Nick Jr. | — |
Nick Too | — |
Nickelodeon | ✔ |
Nicktoons | — |
Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) | ✔ |
Outdoor Channel | — |
Ovation | — |
Oxygen True Crime | — |
Paramount Network | — |
PBS | ✔ |
Primo TV | ✔ |
QVC | ✔ |
QVC2 | ✔ |
QVC3 | ✔ |
Recipe TV | ✔ |
ReelzChannel | — |
Revolt | ✔ |
Science Channel | — |
ScreenPix | — |
ScreenPix Action | — |
ScreenPix Voices | — |
SEC Network | — |
ShopHQ | ✔ |
Smithsonian | — |
Sportsman Channel | — |
Sundance TV | — |
SYFY | ✔ |
TBS | ✔ |
Teen Nick | — |
Telemundo | ✔ |
Tennis Channel | ✔ |
The Africa Channel | — |
The CW | ✔ |
TLC | ✔ |
TNT | ✔ |
Travel Channel | ✔ |
Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) | ✔ |
truTV | ✔ |
TUDN | — |
TV Land | ✔ |
TV One | ✔ |
Universal Kids | ✔ |
Universo | — |
Univision | ✔ |
UPtv | ✔ |
USA Network | ✔ |
VH1 | ✔ |
Vice | — |
WE tv | ✔ |
Weather Channel | ✔ |
Z Living | — |
Zona Futbol | — |
Data effective as of post date. Offers and availability may vary by location and are subject to change.
Popular channels available with Xfinity Popular
Xfinity’s Popular package has all of the top 30 most popular channels1—and 25 of them are high-definition (HD) channels.
(Pssssst! Adult Swim airs at night on Cartoon Network, but Variety1 ranks the channels separately. Xfinity advertises only Cartoon Network, so you won’t see Adult Swim on the channel lineup table. It’s totally there, though.)
Top 30 most-watched channels1
- CBS
- NBC
- ABC
- FOX
- Fox News
- ESPN
- MSNBC
- ION*
- HGTV
- Univision*
- Hallmark Channel
- USA Network
- Telemundo*
- HISTORY
- TLC
- TBS
- Discovery Channel
- TNT
- The CW*
- A&E
- Investigation Discovery
- CNN
- Food Network
- Bravo
- Nickelodeon
- AMC
- MeTV*
- Lifetime
- FX
- Adult Swim
Sports channels available with Xfinity Popular
Popular has 11 sports channels, most of them in HD, covering all the sportsball bases—plus sports cars and sports guns. Want specifics? Here, take ‘em:
- AT&T SportsNet
- ESPN
- ESPN2
- FOX Sports 1 (FS1)
- MOTOR TREND
- NBA TV
- NFL Network
- SEC Network
- Tennis Channel
- The Golf Channel
- The Sportsman Channel
Educational and kids’ channels available with Xfinity Popular
Popular has tons of kids’ channels, most of them in HD, covering everything from cartoons to family movies. Want specifics? Here, take ‘em:
- Animal Planet
- Cartoon Network
- Discovery Channel
- Disney Channel
- National Geographic
- Nick Too
- Nickelodeon
- PBS*
- Smithsonian Network*
- Teen Nick
- Universal Kids
* SD only
Inclusion and diversity channels available with Xfinity Popular
Popular includes a total of 12 channels focused on stories from and for Black, Latinx (Spanish-speaking), and indigenous people. (Xfinity carries the LGBTQ+ network LOGO, but not in this package.) Among these, 9 are HD channels, so you can see your beautiful self reflected in glorious high-definition.
- Aspire*
- BET
- First Nations Experience*
- Impact Network*
- Lifetime
- Lifetime Movies Network (LMN)
- Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)*
- Primo TV
- Telemundo*
- Telexitos*
- UniMás*
- Univision*
* SD only
Xfinity Latino channels
Órale! Although Xfinity already includes several Spanish-language channels in Popular, you get can más channels (over 50) with Xfinity’s Latino channel bundle. It’s usually $16.95 a month, but you can get it for $9.99 per month for the first year.
- BabyFirstTV en Español
- Canal Once
- Canal SUR
- Caracol TV
- Centroamérica TV
- Cine Mexicano
- Cinelatino
- Cinema Dinamita
- CNN en Español
- Discovery en Español
- Discovery Familia
- Ecuavisa
- Enlace
- ESPN Deportes
- EWTN Español
- Fox Deportes
- Fox Life
- Galavisión
- History en Español
- HITN
- Latin American Sports
- Mexicanal
- Multimedios
- Nuestra Tele
- Pasiones
- RCN Novelas
- Sony Cine (formerly Cine Sony Television)
- SUR Perú
- Telefe
- TeleFórmula
- Tr3s: MTV
- Música y Más
- TUDN
- TV Chile
- TV Dominicana
- TVV
- TVE
- Universo
- Video Rola
- ViendoMovies
- Vme Kids
- WAPA América
Xfinity premium channel packages
If you want the best movies and sporting events, you have to spring for premium channels.
Here’s Xfinity’s menu of premium channel add-ons. I’ll give you a few minutes to decide. And yes, I’ll bring more bread when I return. And water.
- CINEMAX ($12.00/mo.)
- Deportes ($5.00/mo.)
- MGM+ (formerly EPIX) ($5.99/mo.)
- HBO® Max ($14.99/mo.)
- More Sports & Entertainment with NFL RedZone ($9.99/mo.)
- Playboy TV ($19.99/mo.)
- SHOWTIME® ($12.00/mo.)
- STREAMPIX ($4.99/mo., included with Popular TV and above)
Data as of publish date. Offers and availability may vary by location and are subject to change.
Xfinity on-demand packages
Customization rules. Xfinity has nearly two dozen special interest, on-demand packages to help make your channel package more . . . yours.
- FOX NATION ($5.99/mo.)
- HITZ ($12.00/mo.)
- AMC+ ($8.99/mo.)
- allblk ($5.99/mo.)
- Disney Story Central ($4.99/mo.)
- Curiosity Stream ($2.99/mo.)
- Lifetime Movie Club ($4.99/mo.)
- HISTORY Vault ($4.99/mo.)
- Stingray Classica ($6.99/mo.)
- GAIAM ($7.99/mo.)
- Fit Fusion by Jillian Michael ($6.99/mo.)
- KidStream ($4.99/mo.)
- Grokker ($6.99/mo.)
- Anime Network ($6.99/mo.)
- Gaia ($11.99/mo.)
- Stingray Karaoke ($6.99/mo.)
- UP Faith & Family ($5.99/mo.)
- Acorn TV ($6.99/mo.)
- Pantaya ($5.99/mo.)
- DOGTV ($4.99/mo.)
- TumbleBooksTV ($4.99/mo.)
- Here TV ($7.99/mo.)
- Filipino on Demand ($7.99/mo.)
Data as of publish date. Offers and availability may vary by location and are subject to change.
Xfinity Popular channel lineup FAQ
What channels are included in basic cable from Comcast/Xfinity?
We don’t recommend Xfinity’s basic cable packages. There’s just no good reason to pay monthly for your local channels and subchannels since you can get them with an easy-to-install over-the-air (OTA) antenna for a one-time payment of $20–$50.
Endnote
1. Variety, “Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2019’s Winners and Losers,” December 2019. Accessed December 4, 2020.