DirecTV started launching new national and local high-definition channels after its new satellite DIRECTV 11 was launched. Now DirecTV is now offering local HD programming to customers in the Johnstown-Altoona, Pa. designated market area. WTAJ/CBS and WJAC/NBC are the new broadcast networks available in HD. DirecTV also have plans to provide many new HD stations [...]
Verizon has launched new FiOS Freedom bundles for its FiOS customers in Oregon with the ultimate broadband and home entertainment experiences. The new service option will include FiOS TV extreme service tier with more HD channels than the cable companies in the market, in addition to ultra-high-speed FiOS Internet service that blows cable away, plus [...]
Ron Geraci, Senior Vice President, Research and Planning, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group has announced that Jane Gould has been appointed as Vice President, Consumer Insights and she will be placed in New York and will be reporting to Ron Geraci.
Gould will be responsible for coordinating consumer insights research for all Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family [...]
SCI FI Channel has announced that they have reached an agreement with MGM Television Entertainment to produce Stargate Universe. Production of the new series will begin early next year and the show will be premiered during 2009 Summer and Stargate Universe will be launched as a two-hour movie event on SCI FI
Channel. Brad Wright and [...]
Lifetime Networks, CosmoGIRL, Declare Yourself have announced the winners of the 2008 Future Frontrunners contest for high school and college students to identify and inspire the next generation of women leaders. In support of the contest, “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens lends her voice to a public service announcement (PSA) saluting the winners, airing [...]
Congress passed a law on February 1, 2006, setting a final deadline for the DTV transition of February 17, 2009 and most of the television broadcast will stop broadcasting analog signals and switch to purely digital broadcasts after February 17, 2009. Circuit City has announced that they have opened a toll-free telephone contact center to [...]
National Geographic and NewsGator Technologies partner to create, host and track a series of dynamic widgets, including an interactive puzzle widget that transforms photographs into a digital jigsaw puzzle that users spend, on average, several minutes assembling. Dayton Daily News and Tampa Bay Online have already picked up the puzzle widgets. National Geographic widgets will [...]
The Golf Channel will premiere a Golf show during 2009 as the channel is developing a project that would feature famed golf instructor Hank Haney, who has coached Tiger Woods on his swing, giving current Turner Sports analyst and the former NBA star Charles Barkley tips on his own golf game.
Comcast has launched Big Ten Network in high-definition on 15th August and the sports network will be added in HD in areas where the cable operator offers HD programming service. Comcast subscribers with Digital Cable can watch four additional Big Ten Network feeds on channels 692 through 695, Big Ten Network broadcast live coverage of [...]
Bright House Networks has launched six new high-definition channels in Birmingham, AL. Bright House Networks new HD channels are
Discovery HD
Food HD
HGTV HD
MGM HD
National Geographic HD and
TLC HD
