February 2008

Time Warner Cable Delivers With Three HD Channels

February 29, 2008 · 2 comments

During the Conference call, Time Warner Cable‘s chief operating officer Landel Hobbs said that they have 23 regional sports network and 53 high-definition channels and have another 20 high-definition deals pending for the year 2008. Its time for Time Warner Cable to deliver, they have added three new Starz High-Definition channels in the Albany, New [...]

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DirecTV will bring “DIRECTV Hometown Heroes” to be hosted by Joan Lunden, Hometown Heroes will feature about the customers of DirecTV who make a remarkable difference in their community. The Hometown Heroes will run ten episodes on original entertainment channel, The 101 from Sunday April 6 at 9 PM ET in high-definition. Each episode will [...]

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According to Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett Dish Network has underperformed in the fourth quarter of 2007. The analyst predicted to add about 148,000 subscribers in this quarter but Dish Network was able to add only about 85,000 subscribers, which is far less compared to fourth quarter of 2006, the Dish Network added about [...]

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The leading Satellite TV in the country DirecTV is planning to bring exceptional coverage of Masters Golf Tournament 2008 to be held between April 10 – 13. The attraction of DirecTV’s coverage of the tournament is to be Masters Mix Channel, DirecTV is to provide multi channel package with round one and two of the [...]

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According to www.broadcastingcable.com, Time Warner Cable has signed a deal with Crown Media Holdings to offer high-definition Hallmark Movie Channel. It’s expected that the channel to be launched by April, Comcast has also entered a deal with Hallmark Movie Channel to carry its high-definition during launch. DirecTV is also expected to carry the channel as [...]

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DirecTV viewers in USA will have option to view Mountain West Conference programming from August 1 onwards as Mountain West Conference, known as The Mtn, has reached an agreement with DirecTV and the Satcaster will carry The Mtn programming. This contract will allow many viewers to see their favorite Mountain West Conference teams play on [...]

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DIRECTV started its high-definition expansion last year and has delivered almost 90 HD channels and now adding local HD channels in many Market area. The satcaster is about to launch a new satellite next month and the next phase of HD expansion will start and expected to deliver 150 national and 1500 local HD channels. [...]

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National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) insists DIRECTV to deliver local TV service in all the 210 markets by end of 2008. NAB sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expressing their concern about the delivery of local channels in all the markets. DIRECTV already delivers local TV programs in 144 markets. NAB took this [...]

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USA television move towards the analog to digital broadcasts and it’s left with Exactly a year from now as The Federal Communications Commission(FCC), a US government agency, accountable to Congress, has begun the switch many years back and the US federal law requires On February 17, 2009,  should stop broadcast analog format and broadcast in [...]

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The leading Satellite TV provider in the country DirecTV has started providing local sports and prime-time broadcast network programming, weather and local news to the customers of Dothan, Alaska via Satellite in digital quality starting from Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. The Network and channels available for the Dothan designated market area customers are: WDHN/ABC, WTVY/CBS, [...]

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