2008 Regional MLB High Definition Schedules
The 2008 MLB Baseball regional high definition schedules have been added to the guide for all teams.
UPDATED 4/1/2008: Below is a summary about each team’s high definition regional coverage, based on the information available as of Opening Day. This is the final update to this post. However, we will continue to update the listings in the guide with any week-to-week changes or additions.
This information was largely compiled based on the hard work of homcom. You can download his 2008 MLB Schedule Spreadsheets.
If anyone has any information on changes or omissions, please let us know. When it comes to the regional broadcasts, we rely heavily on feedback from our regular visitors to help keep the guide accurate.
Arizona Diamondbacks: The Diamondbacks will have all 88 of their regional high definition games on FSN AZ in 2008. FSN Arizona will carry 88 Diamondbacks high definition games from March through September.
Atlanta Braves: The Braves will have 87 games in high definition. Most of the games will be played on Peachtree TV (PTV). PTV has 45 HD Braves games, while SportsSouth (SPSO) has 29 and FSN South has 13 Brave HD games.
Baltimore Orioles:MASN HD will carry 40 Orioles high definition games in 2008. Other than opening day and interleague series with the Nationals and Cubs, all of the HD coverage will be for series against the Yankees or Red Sox.
Boston Red Sox: 149 Red Sox high definition games will be available on NESN in 2008. 2 more HD Red Sox games against the Yankees can be seen on a station yet to be determined due to regional blackouts.
Chicago Cubs: WGN, WCIU and Comcast SportsNet Chicago will carry 145 Cubs high definition games in 2008.
Chicago White Sox: WGN, WCIU and Comcast SportsNet Chicago will carry 147 White Sox games in high definition.
Cincinnati Reds: 71 high definition Reds games will be broadcast on FSN Ohio.
Cleveland Indians: All regional Indians broadcasts will be available in high definition in 2008. Sports Time Ohio (STO) will carry 133 games, and another 20 will be broadcast over-the-air on WKYC TV3.
Colorado Rockies:The Colorado Rockies have 85 regional HD broadcasts in the 2008 season, all of which are on FSN Rocky Mountain.
Detroit Tigers: FSN Detroit will broadcast 103 Tigers high definition games in 2008.
Florida Marlins: 75 regional Marlins games will be broadcast in high definition in 2008 on FSN Florida and Sun Sport.
Houston Astros:FSN Arizona in Houston will broadcast Astros Home Games in HD in 2008. FSN A will have 90 of the Houston games, and My20 KTXH will carry 15 additional games on its network.
Kansas City Royals: The regional home for the Royals, FSN Kansas City, will broadcast 88 games in high definition in 2008. The broadcast resolution for FSN KC (as with most Fox Sports Networks) is 720p.
Los Angeles Angels:FSN West will carry 75 games in high definition in the 2008 season.
Los Angeles Dodgers:All the Dodgers home games will be broadcast in HD in 2008. FSN Prime will broadcast 75 HD Dodgers games, and KCAL has decided to broadcast 49 of its home and away games in HD.
Milwaukee Brewers: FSN Northern Wisconsin will broadcast 62 Brewers high definition games in 2008.
Minnesota Twins:FSN North will carry 65 Twins games in high def in 2008.
New York Yankees: All regional Yankees broadcasts will be available in high definition in 2008. YES HD will carry 122 games, and another 21 will be broadcast over-the-air on WWOR My9. 9 more games will be available on HD either regionally or nationally, as the national networks have yet to determine if they will carry these station-TBD games nationally.
New York Mets: 150 Mets high definition games will be available in 2008. CW11 will carry 25 of the games, and the rest will be available on SNY.
Oakland Athletics: CSN Bay Area, formerly known as FSN Bay Area, has only released the Athletics high definition schedule through May, with 18 confirmed games. However, promotional ads indicate that they will broadcast up to 40 games in HD
Philadelphia Phillies: 47 Phillies home games will be broadcast in high definition in 2008 on CSN Philadelphia. Comcast Sports Net Philadelphia will carry most of the games, WPSG will carry 26 Phillies HD games, and KYW will carry Opening Day 2008.
Pittsburgh Pirates: FSN Pittsburgh will broadcast 75 Pirates high definition games in 2008.
San Diego Padres: 4SD, also known as Channel 4 Padres, will broadcast 142 Padres games in high definition.
San Francisco Giants: CSN Bay Area, formerly known as FSN Bay Area, will broadcast 73 Giants games in HD, and KNTV will carry 19, giving the Giants 92 total games in high definition in 2008.
Seattle Mariners: 155 Mariners games will be broadcast on FSN Northwest in 2008.
St. Louis Cardinals: FSN Midwest will broadcast 88 regional Cardinals games in 2008, and an additional 20 over-the-air games will be in HD on KDSK.
Texas Rangers: The Texas Rangers have 86 HD games in 2008. FSN SW will carry 65 Rangers HD games and KDFI will carry 21 Rangers games in high definition.
Tampa Bay Rays: ION Television will broadcast 20 home games in high definition and FSN Florida will broadcast 37 in HD.
Toronto Blue Jays: 144 high definition Blue Jays games will be carried on SportsNet, CBC and TSN in Canada.
Washington Nationals: MASN HD will broadcast 40 Nationals high definition games in 2008. Most of the match ups feature home and away games against the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves.
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March 25th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Would like to correct you guys on your HD Schedule for the NY Teams. You can safely list the entire Yankees YES and MY9 HD schedule as being HD, All games on this schedule will be High Def on Yes and MY9NY
MY9 NY is a “720p” channel resolution and will show 21 games in High Definition.
YES Network is 1080i and will show at least 128 regular season games, with the rest of the schedule being National TV game choices, so some more will fall back to YES, once the National TV quota is met.
The Mets are not shown on MSG Plus, this is wholly innacurate. The Mets are on SNY which is their own network, MSG Plus is linked to MSG and has no affiliation with the NY Mets. Please correct this as well.
The Mets will be shown in HD for every game regionally on SNY and CW11
The Yankees will be shown in HD for every game regionally on YES Network and MY9 NY.
Thx and I hope you correct these innacuracies to the regional schedule.
>>>UPDATE 10:57 AM ET - HDSportsGuide We have changed the MSG Plus mistake, and all of the SNY games are correctly listed now. We have also added the resolution information about MY9 in 720p. Thanks for the help.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Thx for the quick update guys, right on the ball. I have some info on the Braves, Astros, Dodgers and Twins.
The Minnesota Twins will have 65 games in HD on FSN North http://blog.myspace.com/190index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=154789677&blogID=366678
The Houston Astros will have all 81 Home games in HD on FSN Houston and KTXH and select road games, http://www.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20080207&content_id=2367688&vkey=pr_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou
The Los Angeles Dodgers will hav 109 games in HD on KCAL and Prime http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20080215&content_id=2374490&vkey=pr_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la
FSN Midwest will have 88 not 87 Cards games in HD http://braves.scout.com/a.z?s=248&p=2&c=738597
The Braves will have 45 games on Peachtree TV. SportSouth and FSN South are yet to release their schedule of any HD coverage.
Always look forward to finding the HD coverage from you guys, thx to your schedule. Hope this helps and keep up the effort.
This link will provide info on the schedule of the teams and their HD coverage. http://hd-sports-world.blogspot.com/
March 25th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Glad to help out you guys. Lot of HD sports nuts come here to see what is playing. Keep up the great job guys. I’ve also sent some info on the schedules for the Braves, Astros, Dodgers and Twins.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:34 am
A Correction to the Twins link, original was not working, this should I hope.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=154789677&blogID=366678190
March 25th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
All of the Cardianls games on KSDK will also be in HD.
March 25th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Thanks to the help we have received since this information was posted, we have been able to update some of the Baseball RSN information.
NY Yankees: we received confirmation from YES that all regional games in HD
LA Dodgers: regional coveraged information added
Minnesota Twins: regional coveraged information added
Houston Astros: regional coveraged information added
St. Louis Cardinals: 20 games on KSDK added, and corrected the count of FSN MidWest to 88
We will continue to update this page as we receive additional information.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
A correction for the Phillies: All of the home games on the CW Philly (WPSG) will also be in HD. Plus they sometimes announce on short notice that they will do select road games in HD. Usually where other Comcast networks are located. For example they carried some games at the NYM in HD, and games at the Nationals last year.
Thanks,
Ryan Anthony
March 25th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Ryan,
We have searched for confirmation of this, and actually emailed a rep at WPSG last week, but have not gotten any response. I know that CW Philly and the sister station have a new high def studio and broadcast center, but the only game I was able to confirm was the opening day broadcast on KYW. Do you have a link to any confirmation or press release that all home games on CW Philly will be available in high definition?
We appreciate the help.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
now for the $64,000 dollar question. If you have the MLB EXTRA INNINGS PACKAGE through COX CABLE will they be showing the games in High Def?
March 25th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I was just basing it off the fact that last year every Phillies home game that I saw on WPSG was in HD.
Thanks,
Ryan Anthony
P.S. awesome job with the new site!
March 25th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
And the road games they do in HD are only on Comcast Sportsnet.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Here is a link for the Colorado Rockies HD schedule on FSN Rocky Mountain, a total of 85 HD games
http://blog.rockiesworld.com/2008/03/fsn-rocky-mountain-to-telecast-85.html
March 26th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
75 Angels Games on FSN West HD. I came across this link for the Angels on their forum for the HD games as noted on the schedule primarily on FSN West HD and it looks like 1 game on FSN Prime Ticket HD, don’t know if KCOP does HD games for the Angels, but doesn’t seem so from looking it up.
http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=10&nav=display&webtag=ml-angels&tid=90364
March 26th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
UPDATE: We have updated the regional information for the following teams:
Angels
Rockies
March 26th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
This link gives the official 75 Angels games in High Definition for 2008
http://msn.foxsports.com/story/6471002
March 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Good News!.. .just saw this on the TVPREDICTIONS.COM web site >>>> (I live in Rhode Island)
Update:
News
Cox: MLB ‘Extra Innings’ In HD
By Swanni
Washington, D.C. (March 26, 2008) — Cox Communications says it will provide some games in Major League Baseball’s ‘Extra Innings’ package in High-Definition.
However, the cable operator offers no details such as how many games or even which local Cox systems will provide high-def coverage.
“We will offer those games in HD in select markets,” Cox spokeswoman Erin Lambermont tells TVPredictions.com. “It’s up to each market to determine whether to carry (games in HD).”
Update: Lambermont said Wednesday morning that Cox systems in San Diego and Rhode Island have committed to carrying the high-def games
http://www.tvpredictions.com/forum/index.php
March 27th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Anything on Time Warner in New York for HD Extra Innings games?
March 27th, 2008 at 12:15 am
I should have looked at the link.
From: tvpredictions.com
Time Warner and Charter also carried the Extra Innings package last year. TVPredictions.com has issued inquiries to the two cable operators asking about their 2008 plans, including high-def, but have yet to receive a response.
March 27th, 2008 at 8:50 am
HDSportsGuide has teamed up with “homcom”, a regular contributor at AVSforum.com to add a new homcom HD Sports Blog.
homcom has worked hard over the past few months to compile a comprehensive spreadsheet of all Major League Baseball games, indicating which station each game will be carried on and whether it will be broadcast in high definition. Go over to http://www.HDSportsGuide.com/homcom to check out his blog and take a look at his first post from last night to download the spreadsheets.
We will be working on making sure that all of the information he has gathered matches what is already in our guide. We are excited about this future working relationship! As those who know him from AVSForum.com are aware, he is a wealth of knowledge about HD Sports.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
re: Philadelphia
I’ll second that almost all Phillies home games are broadcast in HD, whether its CSN or CW57. The exception is early season home games that may be broadcast on the alternate CN8 channel when there is a conflict with a Sixers or Flyers broadcast on CSN.
While I don’t have a source for that, that’s been the situation for a couple years now.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:28 am
The Dodgers must be big favorites in the NL West since according to your info they will have 98 HOME games broadcast in HD. I thought each team only played 81 home games.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Our guide should be correct for the number of dodgers games in HD, but I did miscount when updating the news post about the listings. turns out it’s 124 games total in HD. 75 on FSN Prime and 49 on KCAL.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
The Dodgers website lists 99 games on “PRIME-HD” (which is all the games listed for FSN Prime Ticket), and if all games on KCAL are in HD, then all Dodger broadcasts are in HD.
The Diamondbacks should be corrected to be on FSN Arizona (not FSN Southwest).
The Marlins should be corrected to be on FSN Florida and SunSports.
The Royals website lists the HD games now.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Thanks to your help as well as the expertise of homcom, we have updated the above summary for the 2008 MLB Regional Sports Network coverage (as of April 1 2008). This is the final update to this post, but if we have any changes or additions, we will continue to update the guide as well as the information on the team pages. Thanks again to everyone who’s sent us information, and we hope you continue to do so.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:17 am
According to the broadcast tonight, CSN Bay Area will be televising 40 of their 81 Athletics games in HD.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Also regarding the Phillies, today’s (Sat, April 5) road game @ Cincinnati was produced in widescreen non-HD (might be 480p ED, but I’m not sure about that) as many Flyers road games were this year.
I’d prefer HD, but this incremental step is better than none.