ESPN RISE is to host the Second Annual New Orleans Nike Football SPARQ Challenge on Saturday, December 13th at the New Orleans Saints practice facility in Metairie, La., from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. This free event produced by ESPN RICE will give area athletes an opportunity to test and showcase their athletic ability, as well as [...]
The MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area, KRON-TV has announced that it has added Hacienda Heights in its day time programming line-up on KRON 4. Hacienda Heights will be premiered on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 12:30 PM is a new show and feature an all Hispanic cast in an English language soap [...]
A new cable channel NET owned and operated by Trans Video Communications will be launched on December 8. This new channel will replace The Prayer Channel in the New York area. NET will broadcast children’s programming in the morning hours and after school time slots, and primetime will include family dynamic programming designed to aid [...]
DirecTV subscribers in the El Paso, Texas area will be delighted to learn that the satcaster has added local HD broadcast on Nov. 19. DirecTV customers need an H20 or H21 HD receiver or an HR20 or HR21 DIRECTV Plus HD DVR and a Ka/Ku band dish in El Paso to receive following local HD [...]
Cablevision Mexico has selected MediaRig Mosaic systems to deploy its digital mosaic channels. MediaRig Mosaic is to provide Cablevision with high-quality solution able to provide video-rich IPG channels to their subscribers, even on an install-base of DCT-2000 class STBs. Using a tiled “video montage” layout, a mosaic channel shows multiple thumbnails of high-quality live video [...]
The Colorado Buffaloes men’s basketball 2008-2009 season started on Friday and Qwest Communications’ ‘Winning Attitude’ program will honor middle school students around Colorado for the differences they make in their communities by providing outstanding efforts in sportsmanship, community involvement and teamwork. University of Colorado (CU) and FSN Rocky Mountain will honor four middle school students [...]
Dish Network and Hispanic Information Telecommunications Network (HITN TV) have announced that they jointly operate to remove the barriers facing Latino communities from transitioning to digital television by implementing new consumer-direct digital transition video conference workshops throughout New York and Puerto Rico, with viewer participation from California sites. The live teleconference workshops utilize HITN’s proprietary [...]
Speed Channel to bring A North Bay Area Big and Little Brother, the second highest-rated show on the Channel’s PINKS ALL OUTTAKES will see hundreds of the best drag racers compete for bragging rights and cash. The segment will feature interviews with Logan and Jordan as well as scenes from their day-long excursion at Napa [...]
HDNet is to present Concert series ‘ Boyz II Men’ on Sunday, November 9, 8:00 p.m. in which the four-time Grammy winners perform their original hits “Motownphilly,” “I’ll Make Love to You,” to “End of the Road,” and “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday.” Boyz II Men also bring “Tracks of My Tears,” [...]
The California Catholic Conference has condemned the new ‘No on Proposition 8′ television commercial scheduled to run on TV stations. The advertisement, produced by a group called ‘Courage Campaign Issues Committee,’ and viewable at websites, depicts supposed missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints conducting a home invasion of a lesbian couple’s [...]
