Archive for the 'Local HD programming' Category

Verizon FiOS TV Launches 14 New Multicultural Channels From World TV

Verizon FiOS TV has announced that they have started added 14 new multicultural channels from World TV in FiOS TV programming lineup. Verizon has already signed an agreement with GlobeCast’s World TV to launch these 14 new channels. The new channels that are added
Arabic - Kuwait TV and MBT
Balkan - BN and NTV [...]

DirecTV Launches Local HD Programming in the Lincoln, Neb.

DirecTV, after the launch of the satellite DIRECTV 11 has announced that they would deliver 150 national and 1,500 local high-definition channels. DirecTV started its HD expansion last week, when it started delivering new high-definition channels. The satcaster has announced that they are offering local HD programming to customers in the Lincoln, Neb. designated market [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]