Canada: Rogers Expands HD Coverage of Three Sports

Rogers Cable of Canada is adding three additional HD channels to its Super Sports Pak and NHL Center Ice packages, starting immediately. Subs for the Super Sports Pak have already begun receiving more HD content with Rogers' expanded coverage of NHL hockey and NCAA college basketball, the company said. Rogers curr

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Dec 13, 2005

Rogers Cable of Canada is adding three additional HD channels to its Super Sports Pak and NHL Center Ice packages, starting immediately. Subs for the Super Sports Pak have already begun receiving more HD content with Rogers' expanded coverage of NHL hockey and NCAA college basketball, the company said.

Rogers currently offers 31 HD channels, including what it says in a statement are 15 HD "free" channels for signing onto its digital tier. Rogers' sports coverage also will include 19 American college bowl games in HD, starting on Dec. 20 with the New Orleans Bowl. In all, there are two dozen bowl games in the next few weeks in the United States, most of them being broadcast in HD by Rogers, and by various American networks.

Rogers Cable Communications is reporting what it considers substantial growth in the last year with HD subscribers in Canada. Since January 2005, the company's HD customers have more than doubled to 100,000 HD households, according to published reports. Canadian retailers quoted in several publications predict tha

Rogers said it now provides the most “choice in HD programming” than any other service provider in Canada.

Rogers Cable has hit the 200,000 benchmark for HD subscribers in Canada, which it says is double the number of HD households of a year ago. By New Year's, it plans to add more channels on its HD tier--including National Geographic HD, Showcase HD, WGN HD and HD on demand. Rogers said it now offers the most free HD

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It probably did not come as a total shock to observers, but Rogers Cable does not believe any revisions to Canada's Broadcasting Act should authorize HD carriage fees for broadcasters. The cable operator has asked the Canadian Radio-TV & Telecom Commission to reject any fee-for-carriage model. Rogers believes the na