Archive for the 'High Definition programming' Category

Comcast Launches Nine New HD Channels in Vermont

Comcast Corporation has launched nine new high-definition (HD) channels in Vermont. Leading cable operator has announced on Aug. 14 that the new HD channels will add more family-friendly, educational and entertainment programming to its high-definition offering. As announced earlier, Comcast is providing these new channels to expand its HD library and to offer 1,000 HD [...]

Verizon’s FiOS TV Delivers 100 High-Definition Channels To New Jersey Subscribers

Verizon Communications, headquartered in New York has announced on Tuesday Aug. 12 that it’s now offering 100 high-definition television channels to subscribers in North Jersey. Verizon is now offering consumers more HD than Comcast or Cablevision in this area. These new 100 channel line-up in offered in northern New Jersey and subscribers in southern New [...]

KOMU-TV delivers Local news, Weather and Sports in HD To Mid-Missouri

The NBC affiliate KOMU-TV (Channel serving the cities of Columbia and Jefferson City, Missouri along with several surrounding counties in central Missouri has announced that they have started broadcasting local news, weather and sports in high definition. KOMU 8 will be the first and only Mid-Missouri television station to broadcast in HD. The NBC [...]

Adams Cable Launches Seven New HD channels in Northeast Pennsylvania

Adam Cable has launched seven new high-definition channels in Northeast Pennsylvania market area. Adam Cable’s new high-definition channel launch is to stay in competition with Comcast Corporation and Blue Ridge Communications in the local market. The cable operators new HD channels launched in these area :
A&E HD
Bio HD
CNN HD
Planet Green HD
Fox News HD
Travel Channel HD [...]

Time Warner Cable North Texas to Deliver NBC Universal’s 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in HD

Time Warner Cable subscribers in North Texas will be delivered with 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as Time Warner Cable has reached an agreement with NBC Universal (NBCU) to broadcast more than 1,200 total hours of Olympics coverage on seven NBCU networks like NBC, USA Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo and Universal HD. Time Warner Cable [...]

Charter Communications Signs Agreement With NBC Universal To Offer 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in HD

Charter Communications has reached a distribution agreement with NBC Universal (NBCU) on Aug 05, 2008 to broadcast 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. This agreement will allow Charter to broadcast more than 1,200 total hours of Olympics coverage on seven NBCU networks like NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen,
Telemundo, Universal HD and USA Network.
Charter Communications broadcast feature of 2008 [...]

DirecTV To Broadcast 90th PGA Championship Through Interactive HD Coverage

DirecTV to broadcast the 90th PGA Championship held at Oakland Hills Country Club in Michigan with its PGA Championship Interactive service from Aug.7 to Aug.10. DirecTV also supplements with TNT and CBS broadcast feeds and also offers PGA.com through online. This interactive service is free to DirecTV subscribers and will deliver the PGA Championship Tournament [...]

DISH Network Also Signs Agreement With NBC Universal To Offer 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in HD

DISH Network took almost three weeks time to sign an agreement with NBC Universal (NBCU) after DirecTV’s agreement with NBCU to bring 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. DISH Network announced that its agreement with NBCU will allow DISH to deliver two high-definition specialty channels to its HD line-up solely dedicated to the 2008 Beijing Olympic [...]

Bright House Networks Partners with NBCU To Provide 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Bright House Networks has reached an agreement with NBC Universal to provide its subscribers with NBC’s best coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The cable operator is planning to offer the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in various platforms like video-on-demand, high-definition, broadband, and more. NBCU to offer more than 1,200 total hours of Olympics [...]

DirecTV Incorporates CSS technology in DirecTV’s SWM-ODU Dish Unit

DirecTV has announced that they just switched to Entropic’s Channel Stacking Switch (CSS) technology in DIRECTV’s SWM-ODU dish unit with the help of leading provider of silicon solutions Entropic Communications. This technology will deliver HD programming directly to all of the consumer’s set-top boxes. Using SWM-ODU technology, DirecTV subscribers will be happy to note that [...]