DISH Network will launch local high-definition TV channels via its satellite TV service to customers in Denver and 61 surrounding counties.
The stations include: KMGH (ABC), KCNC (CBS) and KDVR (FOX). NBC affiliate KUSA is not part of the HD offering. DISH Network also will deliver the local Denver channels in HD to nine counties in Nebraska.
The local high definition TV channels to be offered in Chicago and surrounding areas include WLS, WBBM, WMAQ and WFLD
KCNC-TV in Denver has become the third broadcaster in its market (DMA no. 18) to begin airing its local news in HD with its recently built digital facilities, including the city’s new tower.
The Burst Group recently helped KCNC-Channel 4 in Denver complete an HD installation that will allow the station to transmit HDTV. The installation is also one of the first in the U.S. to allow an HD network tape delay. All network programming in the Mountain Time zone requires tape-delayed feeds to allow for time-zon
Dish has now begun providing satellite coverage of local HD broadcast channels in Albuquerque, Atlanta, Boston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C. To date, Dish now offers local HD channels in a dozen cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville and Denver. In each n
EchoStar's Dish Network has begun offering local HD channels of the big four networks via satellite to its subscribers in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, specifically: KABC, KCBS, KNBC and KTTV. The launch in the nation's second-largest TV market is coming (not incidentally) just in time to catch the winter Oly
All of the local channels in the NYC market will now be available in HD on Dish Network
You may remember a year ago the Jefferson County commissioners approved the Lake Cedar Group's proposal to construct a 730-foot tower on Lookout Mountain outside Denver for KCNC, KMGH, KUSA and KTVD to replace three large existing towers and a number of smaller ones. See RF Report for July 28, 2003 for details. The t
The direct-to-home satellite provider added Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX, to its growing list of markets where it offers local HD channels.
