DirecTV will start its high-definition expansion with more than 30 high-definition channels starting from August 14. DirecTV with the help of new satellite DIRECTV 11 launched during March this year will provide all these new HD channels. This new HD channels addition will take the DirecTV’s tally to 130 HD channels.
DirecTV’s new HD channel will [...]
SureWest Communications, a CA based telecommunications company servicing the Greater Sacramento Valley market has acquired the Kansas City-based broadband triple-play provider ‘Everest Broadband’ on February 13, 2008 for $173 million in cash. SureWest Communications will be integrating Everest Broadband to SureWest and will launch 18 new high-definition channels in the Kansas City Region. Surewest is [...]
Time Warner is to add five new high-definition channels in Brooklyn and Queens areas of New York. Time Warner Cable’s announcement came after other service providers started adding many new HD channels in New York market areas especially Verizon’s FiOS has announced last week that the cable operator will end up the year with [...]
Comcast has added many new HD channels in Connecticut and moving some channels to different packages.Hartford, Plainville and Vernon subscribers of Comcast will receive three new high-definition channels like ABC Family HD, Disney HD and Science HD from July 22nd. WE: Women’s Entertainment already added to subscribers in Danbury, New Haven, Clinton, Groton and Middletown [...]
MetroCast, a cable service and high speed internet service provider is to launch six new high-definition channels in Starkville, Mississippi area. MetroCast will launch following new HD channels in its programming line-up :
Animal Planet HD
Discovery HD
HBO HD
Outdoor HD
Science HD and
TLC HD
Time Warner Cable uses switched digital video or SDV platform to deliver twelve new high-definition channels in Kansas City. 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
Science Channel
TBS HD
TLC HD
Travel Channel HD and
Versus/Golf HD
Verizon will carry Big Ten Network in Standard and high-definition over the next few months in all markets. New York based operator has already added Big Ten Network HD to the Fort Wayne, Indiana market last week. Verizon will add Big Ten Network before the college season begins in August. The network is a joint [...]
The weekly sports show ‘Inside the NFL’ that focuses on the National Football League produced by NFL Films which finished a several-year-long run on HBO, this year will switch to Showtime this season. Showtime will broadcast the ‘Inside the NFL’ in high-definition. ‘Inside the NFL’ will be broadcasted at 9 p.m. Wednesdays starting September 10 [...]
NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group have partnered to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications. NBC Universal acquisition will end many major media companies interest in the channel. The financial deal were not disclosed but the industry sources say that the deal would worth about $3.5 billion and the deal would also include [...]
Time Warner has announced that the subscribers in Irving and Las Colinas in Texas area will receive Six new high-definition channels. Time Warner Cable’s new HD channel in these areas will be :
A&E HD
CNN HD
Discovery HD
History HD
National Geographic HD and
TBS HD
