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Smithsonian Networks has signed a distribution deal with Time Warner Cable, making the cable provider its affiliate. Smithsonian Networks will join Time Warner Cable’s lineup of HD channels. The network also will offer content through different TWC platforms, including Road Runner High Speed Online,...
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Dish Network has made an agreement to add HD feeds for several of MTV Networks’ and BET Networks’ channels to its roster. CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike TV and VH1 now are available in HD at no additional cost to Dish customers with the Classic Bronze 100 HD and above package. Classic Silver...
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MSNBC will begin broadcasting in high-definition on June 29. MSNBC’s HD launch will build on the NBC News HD infrastructure that’s already in place. “MSNBC is in the best competitive place it’s ever been, beating CNN in primetime last month and continuing incredible growth,” Phil Griffin, president of...
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Cablevision is adding 15 premium channels to its iO TV high-definition lineup, including HD channels from HBO, Showtime, Encore, Cinemax and Starz, the company announced Wednesday. The new channels arrive hot on the heels of the removal of Voom HD’s 15 channels from the cable system in late January....
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Comcast Corp. and Discovery Communications have quietly agreed to a new long-term carriage agreement—proving that not all negotiations between cable operators and programmers have to result in the kind of fireworks that Time Warner Cable and Viacom produced late last year. Like the Viacom-Time Warner...
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Comedy Central is going high-definition. Comedy Central HD will launch on Cablevision over a three-day period beginning today and on Cox and DirecTV later this month. More HD launches are expected throughout the year. As part of its programming, Comedy Central HD will make available 30 past episodes...
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AT&T U-verse has added NHL Network and NHL Network HD to its lineup. NHL Network is available to U-verse customers who subscribe to the U400 programming package or the Sports Package. The network’s HD channel is available to customers with an HD subscription. “We are thrilled to have secured distribution...
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Golf Channel has launched a high-definition channel reaching almost 16 million homes in the U.S. Golf Channel HD will feature exclusive HD coverage of the first three PGA Tour events from Hawaii, kicking off Thursday with the Mercedes-Benz Championship from Maui and continuing with the PGA’s Sony Open...
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Joining the rest of the 24-hour news pack, MSNBC is making the leap to full 1080i high definition starting next spring, the network announced this week. “As viewers are making the transition to HD more and more every day, we’re looking forward to delivering what they want: a full high-definition experience...
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Disney-ABC Television Group has made a deal with Verizon to make ABC shows available on video-on-demand to FiOS TV subscribers. Terms of the deal call for Verizon to disable the fast-forward button so that viewers cannot skip through the commercials contained in a show. The shows are being offered in...
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Coupled with a rebranding in May, Ion Media Networks announced Monday the network is going HD beginning in the first quarter of 2009. Ion Media encompasses Ion Television, formerly Pax TV, as well as qubo and Ion Life. Ion Television will be the first to jump to HD in first quarter ’09, with qubo and...
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Comcast, continuing its push toward offering more high-definition program by year’s end, is celebrating its milestone of more than 1,000 HD options for its subscribers. Touting “more than 1,000 high-definition viewing choices,” Comcast is on track with its Project Infinity, announced during 2008’s Consumer...
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Cablevision Systems Corp. will be adding five new HD channels to its iO TV digital cable roster, including MTV HD, VH1 HD, CMT HD, Fuse HD and NHL Network HD. The latest additions, scheduled to be rolled out between today and Thursday, bring the cable service’s high-def offerings to 65 channels. “As...
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Dish Network will add two high-definition specialty channels to its lineup that will be solely dedicated to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Dish’s agreement with NBC Universal will bring NBC Olympic Soccer Channel and NBC Olympic Basketball Channel to Dish Network subscribers, offering them all-day HD coverage...
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Verizon’s FiOS this week stormed the Big Apple armed with 100 high-definition channels. Too bad a New York-based stock analyst gave the fiber-optic television service a Bronx cheer. FiOS’ HD channel inventory trails only U.S. satellite TV leader DirecTV, which said this week that it will have 130 HD...