Tuesday, July 10, 2007

DISH Adding Plethora of New HD Channels

DISH Network just announced that beginning tomorrow it is adding HD game-only baseball content from 8 additional Regional Sports Networks, listed below. That's 17 total, counting the 9 HD RSNs it launched a couple months back.

FSN Arizona
FSN Cincinnati
FSN Detroit
FSN North
FSN Northwest
FSN Pittsburgh
SportsNet New York
SportsTime Ohio

Also, starting August 15th, DISH will add 7 national HD channels:

Animal Planet HD
Discovery HD
History HD
MHD (MTV, CMT, VH1)
Science Channel HD
TLC HD
Versus/Golf HD

This is great news for DISH HD customers, and indeed, for the entire industry. With DIRECTV having just launched its new high-def satellite on Friday, and DISH now launching a slew of new high-def channels, the cable companies will be forced to continue to expand their own HD channel lineups, and all consumers -- whether cable, satellite or telco customers -- will win.

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