The Open Championship, the oldest of the four major championships in men’s golf and only major held outside the USA is administered by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. The Open Championship 2008 to be held in Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, Lancashire, England between July 17-20, 2008.
ESPN Networks will [...]
Verizon Communications has announced the launch of 22 new channels, including 15 additional high-definition channels in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area. Customers in this area now receive 41 high-definition channels. Verizon’s FiOS TV has announced that they will end up the year with 150 HD channels. Following are the HD channels added :
Animal Planet HD
Big [...]
Bain Capital, Blackstone Group and NBC Universal have reached an agreement to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications. This will end many major media companies interest in acquiring the channel. The financial deal were not disclosed but the industry sources say that the deal would worth about $3.5 billion and the deal would also [...]
Verizon has announced that they will carry Big Ten Network in Standard and high-definition over the next few months in all markets. New York based operator has already added Big Ten Network HD to the Fort Wayne, Indiana market last week. Before the college season begins in August, Verizon will add Big Ten Network to [...]
The leading Sports Travel and Event Management company PrimeSport, based in Los Angeles has announced that they will celebrate the 79th Annual MLB All-Star Game with a ‘2008 MLB All-Star Game VIP Party’ on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at the G-Bar in the Bronx located at 575 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. The historic event, solicited [...]
MetroCast provides cable service and high speed internet service to launch six new high-definition channels in Starkville, Mississippi area. The cable operator will launch following new HD channels in its programming line-up :
Animal Planet HD
Discovery HD
HBO HD
Outdoor HD
Science HD and
TLC HD
Time Warner Cable has launched twelve new high-definition channels in Kansas City. Time Warner uses switched digital video or SDV platform to deliver all these channels to Kansas subscribers. The new HD channels available for the Time Warner’s Kansas City customers are :
Animal Planet HD
Biography HD
CNN HD
ESPN News HD
Fox News HD
Outdoor Channel
Planet Green HD [...]
NBC Universal will broadcast 2008 Beijing Olympic Games coverage is to be the most ambitious single media project in history. This will surpass ABC’s Olympic coverage for the most Olympics broadcast by any network. NBC Universal will present 75 percent of its broadcast Live. NBC Universal coverage of 3,600 total hours of coverage From Aug. [...]
DISH Network has announced on Thursday that the satcaster will launch 17 high-definition channels on August 1 to reach 100 channels. DISH Network, during January this year announced that they would offer 100 national HD channels by year’s end. DirecTV is also gearing up to reach the 100 HD channel mark, it seems DISH will [...]
RCN also begins HD programming in its VOD Service
RCN Corporation, first American facilities-based competitive provider of bundled telephone, cable television and high speed Internet service based in Herndon, Virginia, has announced that it is adding seven new high-definition channels to its programming line-up and also will begin HD programming in its Video On (VOD) service. [...]