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The Tony Awards will be broadcast in high definition for the first time on June 7. The 63rd annual Tony Awards will air on CBS live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Presenters for the awards show include Lucie Arnaz, Kate Burton, Kristin Chenoweth, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Edie Falco, Will...
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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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For regional and local business owners who use television as their lead medium, now may be a good time to discuss the actual look of television creative. The creative issue often gets by business owners, who seem to spend more time concerned with cost per points and audience delivery. In a recession...
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The NAB Show will feature more than 70 new exhibitors and several new attractions. Electronic Arts, Phillips 3-D Solutions and 3ality Digital are among the exhibitors that will display their technological innovations for the first time on the show floor. They will join 1,600 companies, including 430...
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Everyone has a breaking point. Mine is Hugh Jackman, because even though I consider myself among the hardiest of broadband-video converts, I just will not miss the chance to see Hugh Jackman in high definition. So I’m coming back into the traditional television fold for one night only—the Academy Awards...
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"The Simpsons" is finally going HD—and, in what some fans might consider an even bigger development, getting a new opening title sequence as well. Both events will take place Sunday, Fox said during a promo for "The Simpsons" that aired as part of Wednesday night's "American...
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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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TV is good with green, with environmentally friendly flat-screen television sets expected to account for more than half of the market by 2011, display industry analyst firm DisplaySearch said in a new report. Green displays are expected to have eco-friendly components, save power through new technologies...
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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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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...
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The incorporation of Internet access is becoming an important factor behind new high-definition TV set purchases, with nearly three-fourths of people who plan to buy a new television stating they want a browser built into their set, a new survey reported. In the survey, conducted by Internet TV software...
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HD programming picks for Jan. 15-21: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Lost,” “Lie to Me” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (CBS) Thurs., Jan. 15, 9 p.m.: Grissom is on the case for the last time as William Petersen’s tenure on “CSI” draws to a close. Laurence Fishburne steps in as the lead investigator...
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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...