June 9th, 2008
Months after the announcement about the launch of ESPNU HD, we have added the first high definition 2008 college football games which will air on the network. In fact, we received confirmation from our contact at ESPN that ALL Live 2008 NCAA Football games scheduled for ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN U and ABC will be available in high definition.
May 17th, 2008
We recently received updates from ESPN and TBS with additional games added to their early June, Sunday baseball national coverage. For June 1st, ESPN has added the Dodgers at Mets and TBS added Florida at Philadelphia. On June 8th, ESPN will once again feature the Dodgers, who host the Cubs, but TBS has not yet released their pick that week.
May 12th, 2008
Starting in 2009, the U.S. Open Tennis Championship will be shown on ESPN 2 and Tennis Channel, instead of USA Network. According to Multichannel News, a new deal is expected to be announced today, with ESPN2 airing 100 hours of live coverage and Tennis Channel airing 60 hours a year. The deal will go from 2009 through 2014.
May 11th, 2008
In another attempt to convert NFL football fans to the Arena Football League, ESPN2 will present a special “Live Wired” version of the Monday Night AFL Game, with players coaches and a referee wired up for sound. The only thing left for ESPN to do is wire up some cheerleaders for sound and change the name of the league to the XAFL.
May 7th, 2008
CBS College Sports, formerly known as CSTV, is currently available in high definition on DirecTV and should be available soon on other carriers. When you combine this with the launch of ESPN U HD in August, we can start dreaming about the number of weekly high def college football games we will have available this fall.
April 26th, 2008
Since we received confirmation from the NFL Network that they will not be broadcasting the Draft in HD, we have been looking for information about ESPN HD’s plans. Well… it does not appear the coverage will be shot in HD, but (based on pre-draft coverage), at least they are making good use of the screen real estate.
March 17th, 2008
The 2008 NIT, National Invitational Tournament, will be carried in its entirety on the ESPN family of networks. However, we have confirmed that only four high definition games will be available on ESPN and ESPN2.
March 1st, 2008
Following our post last week about the complete coverage of the 2008 ACC Tournament in HD, we have now confirmed that all games of the Men’s Pac-10, Big Ten and Big East Tournaments will also be available in high definition.
