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. [...]
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. [...]
Time Warner Cable is also planning to deliver more high-definition channels to its customers. According to www.engadgethd.com, Cable operator is all set to deliver twelve HD channels in Southern California. Cox Communications, Verizon FiOS and Cablevision Systems Corp are all delivering new national and local HD channels and The leading satellite TV provider DirecTV is [...]
DirecTV has launched ‘DIRECTV on Demand service’ to its subscribers across the country on 30 June. DirecTV has tested ‘on Demand service’ since October and the customers highly anticipated service. DirecTV subscribers with a DirecTV Plus HD DVR or R22 DVR receiver will have access to over 4,000 standard-definition and high-definition titles and is available [...]
Cox Communications added 10 new HD channels and three new digital channels in Santa Barbara, California. Now its time for Phoenix area subscribers to get more HD channels. Cox will be adding following high-definition channels from July 9 in Phoenix, Arizona.
CNBC HD
Lifetime HD and
USA Network HD
College World Series Coverage on ESPN and ESPN2 have scored well and the coverage is second most-viewed college baseball game ever and have reached double-digit audience. The high-lights of ESPN coverage of College World Series :
ESPN scored 1.1 rating for nine games that averaged 1,091,000 households with total viewers of households.
This marks a 27% increase [...]
Time Warner Treats Albany and Rochester subscribers with New HD Channels
ESPN360.com to Provide Exclusive Live Coverage of 2008 Asian Cup Cricket Tournament
Time Warner Cable Adds Three HD Channels in Wisconsin
ANIMAL PLANET EXPO comes to Portland
2008 Wimbledon Championships Broadcast Schedule
Cablevision Systems Adds Golf Channel and Versus To Free Video On Demand Service
Arena [...]
The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship enters the Final to be played in Vienna, favorites Germany will play against Spain. German’s go into Sunday’s UEFA Euro 2008 final against Spain without Michael Ballack as their captain is receiving treatment for a calf injury, Meanwhile Spain will try to end their four decade drought against Germans [...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) an independent US government agency has set deadline of February 17, 2009 for all the full-powered local stations to switch their analog signals to digital. After this deadline, viewers need a digital converter box or a pay TV subscription to receive the programming. FCC has announced that between January 1, [...]