Volkswagen has partnered with Major League Soccer and kicked off “The Road to MLS Cup”; a multi-market tour bringing the newly redesigned MLS Cup trophy, named for soccer visionary Philip F. Anschutz, to the people. The three-state tour will be driven by Volkswagen, whose Routans, Jetta TDI’s, Rabbits, and CC’s will serve as the official [...]
Fox Soccer Channel (FSC) has announced the broadcast schedule for the Major League Soccer Playoffs for the 2008 season. FSC will broadcast live coverage of Chivas USA playing host Real Salt Lake on Saturday, Nov. 1, which will be the first leg of their Western Conference Semifinal showdown starting at 5:30 with half-hour pregame show. [...]
JoAnn Alfano, Executive Vice President, Entertainment, Lifetime Networks has announced that respected programming executive and producer of hit comedies Nina Lederman has been appointed as Senior Vice President, Series Programming and Development of the networks. Lederman will oversee the development of all scripted programming for Lifetime Television. Based in Los Angeles, Lederman will report to [...]
DirecTV has launched Fox News Channel in high-definition on 17th October. The news channel in high-definition is long awaited by the subscribers and was unhappy when DirecTV missed this channel during the HD expansion. DirecTV was very much in local HD broadcast and delivered in many new markets. DirecTV has about 130 high-definition channels and [...]
Time Warner Cable has added six new high-definition channels in Rochester, New York area. Time Warner is expected to deliver more HD channels in Rochester and many markets before the year end. The cable operator has removed MOJO HD from its programming line-up in advance as the scheduled removal is December. Following HD programming channels [...]
AT&T has launched Total Home DVR in Chicago land, Houston, Detroit, San Diego, San Antonio and Austin areas. Its time for Cleveland, Ohio subscribers to get Total Home DVR. AT&T subscribers in Cleveland with Total Home DVR can play back standard definition and high definition recorded programs. This software can play, pause, rewind and fast [...]
Dish Network and Gravitas Ventures have reached an agreement on Oct. 6. This agreement will allow Gravitas to provide Dish Network with quality feature films, documentaries, music, alternative sport, and event specials from more than 50 independent producers. Gravitas has 2,500 hours of content and offers operators with variety of On Demand entertainment content. Gravitas [...]
The C-Store or Convenience Store TV network has launched its network in the San Diego and Phoenix markets and also expanded to new locations in Los Angeles. C-Store TV will follow its sister network Gas Station TV in expanding its roll out and will install in locations already equipped with the Gas Station TV network. [...]
Charter Communications has launched two new high-definition channels in Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina and the Asheville, North Carolina. St.Louis, Missouri based cable operator has added HGTV HD and Food Network HD in its high-definition programming line-up.
Comcast has announced the launch of TBS in high-definition in West Lafayette, IN on Sept. 30. Comcast is scheduled to launch TBS in HD by end of October, but launched earlier and delivered opening round playoff game between the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies in HD. Atlanta based operator has exclusive rights to broadcast the [...]
