Archive for March, 2008

Time Warner Cable Launches 11 new HD Channels In Dallas Area

It’s exciting news for television subscribers as the satellite providers like DirecTV, Dish Network and Cable providers like Comcast, Cablevision and Verizon are adding new local and national high-definition channels. According to Dallas News, Time Warner Cable also has added new 11 high-definition channels in Dallas, Mesquite, Plano and Richardson areas.
Time Warner Cable is also […]

Texas Rangers to produce 86 HD games for 2008 season

FSN Southwest, which holds the local television rights for the broadcast of Texas Rangers games, will start broadcasting with the March 31 season opener against the Seattle Mariners on FSN Southwest as they will produce 86 games in high-definition in this year to be presented by FSN Southwest along with Dallas-Fort Worth broadcast stations KDFI-My […]

Time Warner to bring MLB Extra Innings 2008 In HD

Apart from DirecTV, only few operators present the MLB Extra Innings this season. According to TVPredictions.com, Dish Network won’t broadcast MLB Extra Innings either in standard or high-definition. Cox Communications in Rhode Island and San Diego will provide high-definition version of the games. Cablevision will carry the games but have not disclosed the amount of […]

Dish Network Adds Local HD Channels in Four Markets

Dish Network also stated adding local high-definition programming following DirecTV. But DirecTV will go for massive high-definition expansion in coming months. Dish Network also tried to match up with the satcaster by launching AMC-14 satellite which failed to reach the desired orbit. The Industry analyst felt that Dish Network won’t go for HD expansion as […]

DirecTV exclusively cover MLB Extra Innings 2008

Apart from DirecTV, no other service provider would give in-depth coverage of Major League Baseball Extra Innings, the satcater will provide up to 40 high-definition games a week. Last year DirecTV signed seven year contract with MLB at an exclusive deal of $700 million. DirecTV’s competitor Dish Network, did not offer the package of out-of-market’ […]

Yahoo Joins Google in building ‘OpenSocial Foundation’

Yahoo has joined with Google, MySpace, Friendster, Linkedin, imeem and Bebo in building OpenSocial Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation to help and serve as neutral and develop standards to OpenSocial participants. This was launched last year on the track of success of Facebook’s program that allowed developers to build applications to increase the popularity […]

“Dan Rather Reports” on Cuban economy on HDNet Today

Daniel Irvin Rather, managing editor and legend journalism presents “Dan Rather Reports” on HDNet on every Tuesday’s at 8:00 p.m. ET. Dan Rather with his vast experience as an anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years presents the show with in-depth interviews and investigative pieces that emphasize accuracy, fairness and guts in their […]

FSN Kansas City to carry 88 Royals game in HD out of 140 regular season games

Fox Sports Net Kansas City and The Kansas City Royals have already announced the telecast schedule of the 2008 season, Apart from two exhibition games, 140 regular season games are to telecasted, which is one of the largest in the franchise history. Out of 140 games 88 games are to be beamed in high-definition. After […]

Comcast subscribers in Philadelphia will get 5 new HD channels

Comcast subscribers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will have Five new high-definition channels from April 4 onwards. Comcast started adding HD channels in many market area as they were started expanding without AMC HD. Comcast’s proposed addition of new HD channels in Philadelphia area are:-
American Movie Classics HD
Animal Planet HD
CNN HD
The Learning Channel HD and
The History […]

DIRECTV 11 to help DirecTV to deliver 150 HD channels

DirecTV, the leading satellite television provider in the country has launched a new satellite DIRECTV 11 on 19 March 2008. DirecTV’s new satellite DIRECTV 11 along with its sister satellite DIRECTV 10 in the orbit launched last year will provide enough bandwidth to deliver 150 national and 1,500 local high-definition channels. This is one of […]