Xfinity Ultimate Channel Lineup: Channels, Premium Add-ons, and More

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Price: $59.99/mo.

Channels: 185+

Popular channels: ESPN, History, NFL Network, and more

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Xfinity Ultimate is Xfinity’s top-tier TV package in the western US. Depending on which area of the western US you live in, Xfinity may advertise this package with 185+–220+ channels.

We recommend Xfinity Ultimate for most folks because it offers lots of popular channels at a good value.

The table below lists all of the channels included in Xfinity Ultimate. After the table, you can read more about Ultimate’s channels—and all of the sweet add-ons you can add for an extra fee.

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Xfinity Ultimate channel lineup (western region)

Channels Ultimate
185+ channels 		Popular
125+ channels
A&E ✓ ✓
ABC ✓ ✓
afro ✓ ✗
AMC ✓ ✓
American Heroes Channel (AHC) ✓ ✗
Animal Planet ✓ ✓
ASPiRE ✓ ✓
AT&T Sportsnet ✓ ✓
BBC America ✓ ✓
BBC World News ✓ ✗
BET Her ✓ ✗
Big Ten Network ✓ ✓
Black Entertainment Television (BET) ✓ ✓
Bloomberg ✓ ✓
BNC ✓ ✓
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 ✓ ✗
DIY Network ✓ ✗
E! ✓ ✓
EPIX ✗ ✗
EPIX 2 ✗ ✗
EPIX Drive-In ✗ ✗
EPIX Hits ✗ ✗
ESPN ✓ ✓
ESPN2 ✓ ✓
ESPNews ✓ ✗
ESPNU ✓ ✗
Eternal Word Televisoin Network (EWTN) ✓ ✓
Flix ✓ ✗
Food Network ✓ ✓
FOX ✓ ✓
Fox Business ✓ ✓
Fox News Channel ✓ ✓
Fox Sports 1 (FS1) ✓ ✓
Fox Sports 2 (FS2) ✓ ✗
Freeform ✓ ✓
FX ✓ ✓
FX Movie Channel ✓ ✗
FXX ✓ ✗
FYI Channel ✓ ✗
G4 ✓ ✓
GAC Famliy ✓ ✓
Galavision ✓ ✗
Game Show Network (GSN) ✓ ✓
Golf Channel ✓ ✓
Hallmark Channel ✓ ✓
Hallmark Drama ✓ ✗
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries ✓ ✓
HBO ✗ ✗
History ✓ ✓
HLN ✓ ✓
Home & Garden Television (HGTV) ✓ ✓
HSN ✓ ✓
i24 News English ✓ ✗
IFC ✓ ✗
INSP ✓ ✓
Investigation Discovery ✓ ✓
ION ✓ ✓
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 ✓ ✓
NBC Sports ✓ ✓
Newsmax TV ✓ ✓
NewsNation ✓ ✓
NFL Network ✓ ✗
NHL Network ✓ ✗
Nick Jr. ✓ ✗
Nick Too ✓ ✗
Nickelodeon ✓ ✓
Nicktoons ✓ ✗
Olympic Channel ✓ ✗
Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) ✓ ✓
Outdoor Channel ✓ ✓
Ovation ✓ ✗
Oxygen ✓ ✓
Paramount Network ✓ ✗
PBS ✓ ✗
POP ✓ ✗
QVC ✓ ✓
QVC2 ✓ ✓
QVC3 ✓ ✓
Recipe TV ✓ ✓
ReelzChannel ✓ ✗
Revolt ✓ ✓
Science Channel ✓ ✗
ScreenPix ✓ ✗
ScreenPix Action ✓ ✗
ScreenPix Voices ✓ ✗
SEC Network ✓ ✗
ShopHQ ✓ ✓
SHOWTIME ✗ ✗
Smithsonian ✓ ✗
Sportsman Channel ✓ ✗
Sundance TV ✓ ✗
SYFY ✓ ✓
TBS ✓ ✓
Teen Nick ✓ ✗
Tennis Channel ✓ ✓
The Africa Channel ✓ ✗
The CW ✓ ✗
THE MOVIE CHANNEL ✗ ✗
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 ✓ ✗

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Popular channels available with Xfinity Ultimate

Xfinity’s Ultimate package has all* of the top 30 most popular channels. And 26 of those are high-definition (HD) channels. That’s one more HD channel than the next plan down, Starter.

(*Variety1 lists Adult Swim at #30, while Cartoon Network sits at #50 on the publication’s list. They’re separate networks, but Adult Swim airs at night on Cartoon Network. So Xfinity considers Cartoon Network a single channel.)

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Sports channels available with Xfinity Ultimate

Ultimate has 23 sports channels, and all but two (Olympic Channel and Stadium) are HD channels. Pretty much every sport is covered, even disc golf (thanks, ESPN2!), so Ultimate is the package for sports fans.

  • AT&T Sports Networks
  • CBS Sports Network
  • ESPN
  • ESPN2
  • ESPNEWS
  • ESPNU
  • FOX Sports 1 (FS1)
  • FOX Sports 2 (FS2)
  • MLB Network
  • MOTOR TREND
  • NBA TV
  • NBCSN
  • NFL Network
  • Olympic Channel*
  • Outdoor Channel
  • Pac-12 Network
  • SEC Network
  • Stadium*
  • Tennis Channel
  • The Golf Channel
  • The Sportsman Channel
  • TUDN
  • Zona Fútbol

* SD only

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Educational and kids’ channels available with Xfinity Ultimate

Ultimate has 22 popular educational and kids’ channels. All but four of them broadcast in HD. Compared to the next plan down, Popular, there’s a lot more for your kids to watch. That’ll be great for families with lots of little ones to please.

  • Animal Planet
  • Babyfirst TV
  • Cartoon Network
  • Discovery Channel
  • Discovery Family Channel
  • Disney Channel
  • Disney Junior
  • Disney XD
  • Kids Street
  • Nat Geo WILD
  • Nick Jr.
  • Nick Music*
  • Nick Too
  • Nickelodeon
  • Nicktoons
  • PBS*
  • PBS Kids*
  • Primo TV*
  • Science Channel
  • Smithsonian Network
  • Teen Nick
  • Universal Kids

* SD only

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Inclusion and diversity channels available with Xfinity Ultimate

Taste the rainbow! Preferred includes a total of 27 channels focused on stories for the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, Spanish speakers, and women. Fifteen of these are HD channels. It’s a bit of a drag that there’s only one LGBTQ+ channel, but you can add more with Xfinity’s HERE TV on-demand add-on ($7.99 a month).

  • AFRO
  • Aspire*
  • BET
  • BET Her
  • BET Jams
  • BETSOUL
  • First Nations Experience*
  • Impact Network*
  • Lifetime
  • Lifetime Movies Network (LMN)
  • LOGO*
  • NHK*
  • Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)
  • Oxygen
  • Primo TV*
  • Telemundo*
  • Telexitos*
  • TUDN
  • TV Azteca*
  • UniMás*
  • Univision*
  • UNIVERSO
  • WeTV
  • Zona Fútbol

* SD only

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Xfinity Latino channels

As you’ve already read, Xfinity Ultimate comes standard with nine Spanish-language channels. If you want más TV en Español, consider adding Xfinity’s Latino channel bundle. You’ll get up to 60 more channels (see sampling below) for $9.99 a month for the first year ($16.95 per month after).

  • Cine Latino
  • Cine Mexicano
  • Cine Sony
  • CNN en Español
  • Discovery en Español
  • Discovery Familia
  • ESPN Deportes
  • Fox Deportes
  • Galavisión
  • History en Español
  • Pasiones
  • Telemundo
  • TUDN
  • Universo
  • Univision
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Xfinity premium channel packages

Premium channels—drool. I mean, do you really have cable if you don’t have at least one of the top-shelf premium networks like HBO®? (That’s rhetorical, but feel free to debate that with a friend.) Here’s Xfinity’s premium-channels menu—with prices (so there are no surprises)!

  • CINEMAX ($12.00/mo.)
  • Deportes ($5.00/mo.)
  • EPIX ($5.99/mo.)
  • HBO® Max ($15.00/mo.)
  • More Sports & Entertainment with NFL RedZone ($9.99/mo.)
  • NFL RedZone ($9.99/mo.)
  • Playboy TV ($19.99/mo.)
  • SHOWTIME® ($12.00/mo.)
  • STARZ ($8.99/mo.)
  • STREAMPIX ($4.99/mo.)
  • TMC ($12.00/mo.)

Data as of publish date. Offers and availability may vary by location and are subject to change.

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Xfinity on-demand packages

Remember a little bit ago where we suggested adding the HERE TV on-demand pack for more LGBTQ+ movies and shows? Well, you can add more stiff-upper-lip Brit-watch, anime, animal, fitness, educational, kid stuff, definitely not-for-kids stuff, and more with Xfinity’s on-demand add-ons.

  • ACORN TV ($5.99/mo.)
  • AMC+ ($4.99/mo.)
  • Anime Network ($6.99/mo.)
  • Curiosity Stream ($2.99/mo.)
  • Disney Story Central ($4.99/mo.)
  • DOGTV ($4.99/mo.)
  • HERE TV ($7.99/mo.)
  • History Vault ($4.99/mo.)
  • HITZ ($12.00/mo.)
  • KidStream ($4.99/mo.)
  • HERE TV ($7.99/mo.)
  • Lifetime Movie Club ($3.99/mo.)
  • Pantaya ($5.99/mo.)
  • Eros Now ($12.99/mo.)
  • Filipino on Demand ($7.99/mo.)
  • FitFusion ($6.99/mo.)
  • Gaia ($9.99/mo.)
  • GAIAM ($6.99/mo)
  • Grokker ($6.99/mo.)
  • Stingray Classica ($6.99/mo.)
  • Stingray Karaoke ($6.99/mo.)
  • TumblebooksTV ($4.99/mo.)
  • UP Faith & Family ($4.99/mo.)
  • WeTV+ ($4.99/mo.)

Data as of publish date. Offers and availability may vary by location and are subject to change.

Get these on-demand channels

If Xfinity’s Ultimate package doesn’t seem right for you, have a look at these channel lineups.

Xfinity Ultimate channel lineup FAQ

Does Xfinity have the Outdoor Channel?

Xfinity offers the Outdoor Channel in its Ultimate and Popular packages in the western US.

Endnote

1. Variety, “Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2019’s Winners and Losers,” December 2019. Accessed December 4, 2020.

See also: Xfinity Overview | Xfinity Internet | Xfinity TV | Xfinity Voice | Xfinity Bundles | Xfinity Customer Service | Xfinity Availability Map | Xfinity Deals | Xfinity Free Installation 

See also:

Xfinity Overview

Xfinity Internet

Xfinity TV

Xfinity Voice

Xfinity Bundles

Xfinity Customer Service

Xfinity Availability Map

Xfinity Deals

Xfinity Free Installation

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