Fox News Channel wasn’t being conservative, technically speaking, when it jumped into 720p transmissions on May 1, joining competitor CNN to make the next-gen DTV leap.

Initially, FNC HD will be available in select Time Warner cable markets

The new network will originate from News Corp.’s studios in New York City and have bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco (Silicon Valley), Washington, D.C., and London.

While the network could have chosen to go tapeless in a piecemeal manner as other networks had done, it decided to go tapeless end-to-end.

Fox Sports Net is the latest cable sports venture to make the leap into HDTV, striking a deal with Time Warner Cable to begin high-definition programming as early as the fourth quarter of this year. TWC announced the deal at the NCTA show. FSN spokesman Lou D'Ermilio said 720p production would begin initially for six

Lawo North America Corp. has completed its follow up project with the Fox News Channel in New York. Lawo installed one Nova73 HD router, one DALLIS frame and nine VisTool editor workstations. An existing self-op console was re-configured as a broadcast console. In the course of the upgrade, Lawo's VisTool softwar

FOX Business Network launched Monday in HD after a 180-day marathon to put the pieces in place.