Verizon has added MLB Network HD and MLB Extra Innings to its FiOS TV service. MLB Network HD is free to Verizon Extreme customers with HD set-top boxes, while MLB Extra Innings is a premium-service package available to all FiOS TV subscribers for $169 before April 12. MLB Extra Innings will showcase...
CBS and Verizon penned a long-term program carriage and retransmission-consent agreement, bringing both high-definition and standard-definition CBS content to Verizon’s on-demand FiOS TV service, the two companies announced Monday. The new agreement provides FiOS TV with CBS shows including “CSI: Crime...
Comedy Central Goes HD Comedy Central has made the move to high definition on Cablevision, with HD coverage reaching Cox and DirecTV viewers by the end of the month, TelevisionWeek reported. The HD channel will make available the last 30 episodes of “South Park” and the first two seasons of “The Sarah...
In a nod to the ever-shortening attention span of the American public, multichannel service operators have gone from pitching how many linear high-definition channels they can offer each household to crowing about how many HD programs that single household can digitally record at one time. This week...
Verizon has quietly begun testing a Web-to-TV offering in the more than 1 million homes that have its TV service, marking one of the first trials by a multichannel provider to deliver Internet video directly to the television set. The project brings the online video destinations YouTube, Break.com, Blip...