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#18
August 5th, 2004
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This Week In HDSports
Champ Car Racing in HD on HDNet
This Week has lots of exciting news for HD Sports Fans about
future events, plus a great current week of HD programming content. We
have
lots more MLB games coming this week and looking at the HD Calendar
it seems…. Wait just a second !
Big HDTV Fan Wow factor!
Foremost for
This Week in HD Sports has to be the ’04 premier of ABC’s NFL Monday
Night Football. They bring us the Hall of Fame Game, coming in 720p HD.
Native 720p Display owners should really like this
presentation of
ABC/ESPN style NFL Football with more coverage coming Thursday, Aug.
12th.. A Special edition ESPN-HD Sunday (but on Thursday) Night
Football. Note: The SuperVeteran of CBS and Fox NFL telecasts, Pat
Summerall will call ESPN's pre season NFL games, replacing regular Mike
Patrick, who will have heart surgery.
CBS has said, besides “select” weekly
NFL HD games, their NFL AFC Playoff games will all be 1080i High
Definition Format. CBS has just announced the PGA Golf Championship is
to be in HD & it's likely that again, CBS
will carry the US Open Tennis in HD.
Coming later - FOX will be the
new HD NFL King with up to Six weekly HD games and all NFC playoffs in
720p HD. The NFL Network has said they will also have some HD
pre season
games.
DirecTV/NBC Universal showed some good
sense &
they will now bring
the NBC HD Olympic feed to all DirecTV viewers in their NBC Network
Owned & Operated broadcast areas. Have heard that Bravo-HD is also
available, but details remain sketchy. Remember folks the NBC HD
Olympics are coming next weekend! Dish Network is also testing their HD
Olympic Channel. Delayed or not the Olympics in HD will be beautiful
indeed!
This weekend, Mark Cuban & Co. brings more fast and spectacular
HDNet Auto Racing and MLSoccer. HDNet also has now announced
their MLS Soccer schedule for the remaining season, with Sat. &
Wed. night matches plus HD MLS playoffs. Lots of Boxing on this
weekend, both HDNet and Showtime.
More great HD Sports news, this time for Calif. Folks, is Fox Sports
Net HD, Bay Area (SF, CA) start of HD MLB games. They will show 37
games featuring the Oak. A’s or SF Giants in 2004.
Look for a usual range of HD MLB games on your local Fox SpNet
regionals; I do not have updated info regards which games are in to be
HD at press time.
Pass this along to
your sports fan friends
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7:30 PM INHD Those
with Cable HD will like this commercial free MLBaseball Friday
night game: Hot Texas Rangers visit the Baltimore O’s at Camden Yards.
3:00
ET PM HDNet “Live” Champ Car World Series
on HDNet: Grand Prix of Road America Qualifying. These
cars will Fly
around this beautiful road course. Keep
the STB on HDNet
because next is the ground pounding Trans-Am
Series.
5:30
PM ET HDNet
“Live” Trans-Am Road Racing
Series also from Road America.
8:00 PM ET HDNet Boxing:
The Mohegan Sun Arena - The main
event pits Nate Campbell
against Bronx native "Tiger" Martinet. The co-feature of the night
includes Aneudi Santos and Sam Reese. Santos is preparing to avenge his
loss to Reese earlier in the year. Other fighters include Anthony Mace,
William Johnson, Deandre McCole and Ehinomen
Ehikhamenor. (HDNet’s Web site)
9:00
PM ShowTime HD Boxing presents WBO
Lightweight Champion Acelino "Popo" Freitas vs. WBO JuniorLightweight
Champion Diego "Chico" Corrales. Coming from Foxwoods Resort Casino,
Mashantucket, CT. NOTE: Maybe a bigger reason to watch this
event is the HD replay of last weekend’s Knockout of (Ex?) Boxer
Mike Tyson by the fists of a guy named Danny Williams in Four Rounds.
Nice Job, Danny! I
have heard it is a real slugfest!
10:00 PM ET HDNet
again kicks it in with Major League Soccer, tonight’s match is D.C.
United @ San Jose Earthquakes. This is a 7 PM local start makes for
some twilight HD sports viewing.
11:00 AM ET INHD on Cable. Though not “Live” INHD will
broadcast a cool auto-racing program “Racing’s Greatest Night of
Champions” Nascar Cup drivers of old and new will be on the
track (repeats 9PM)
2:30
PM ET HDNet's Auto racing into the
future with all HD action. Today it’s the
Champ Car World Series On HDNet: GRAND PRIX OF ROAD AMERICA This track
in eastern Wisconsin has been around for a quite a while, now a new
look at
the road course in High Def.
7:00 PM ET
INHD Cable’s INHD / MLB baseball fans
should
watch Cathedrals of the
Game: Oriole Park Camden Yards
8:00
PM ET
ESPN-HD smacks it deep with
Sunday
Night Baseball. This game is a late afternoon local start from
the West
Coast, the Chicago Cubs traveling to take on the SF Giants at
PacBell
Park (SBC).
 Big shadows & sun glare may hinder
the
players but heah, we
get to see how many walks Barry Bonds currently has. I think he’s
already
doubled the record for walks for a year!
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8:00 PM ET ABC Sports brings us cool
PrimeTime HD Monday Night Football. Hall of Fame Game: it's the new
look Joe Gibbs Washington Redskins taking on the Denver Broncos. Dan
Reeves will be doing some commentary behind a microphone not coaching
on the sidelines. This should be a cool game from the Pro-Football Hall
of Fame in Canton Ohio.
The stadium
only holds 22,000 fans and will be
packed. I am sure ABC will bring along and test some new technical
effects sometime during the pre-season. For more Hall of Fame Game
& Fawcett
Field Info: Link:
7:00 PM ET INHD on Cable has
MLB: 08/09 Colorado Rockies at the Philadelphia Phillies
07:30 PM ET HDNet
(Tape HD, dah) Face 2 Face with Roy Firestone - HDNet Web Site:
Premiere Charles Barkley - As a 5 time All-star, League MVP, and member
of the 1992 Olympic "Dream Team" Charles Barkley knows basketball, but
that's not all he knows. His recent autobiography, I May be Wrong, But
I Doubt it, sums up the tenacious attitude he brings to life off the
court. With zeal, Barkley breaks down the current era of the NBA, the
Olympics and the Presidential election.
7:30PM ET INHD &
Turner South:
Tonight's MLB action: Milwaukee Brewers heading south
and visiting the Atlanta Braves. This game is listed HD on both
systems.
7:00
PM ET ESPN-HD: Back in HD this
week we get Bank One
Wednesday Night Baseball!
In this game we get to see the Class of the
League,
the St. Louis Cardinals take on the '03 World Champion Florida Marlins.
Coming in Digital clear HD from Pro-Player Stadium, Miami FL.
10:00 PM
HDNet
Billiards with the Molson 9-Ball Championship (tape), this a cool
indoor type sport for HD viewing.
4:00 PM PDT FoxSNet HD Bay Area PDT Fox SportsNetHD Bay Area brings on the San Francisco
Giants visiting the Pittsburgh Pirates
8:00 PM ET
ESPN-HD Premiere
Special Thursday
Edition of ESPN NFL Sunday Night Football. The Atlanta Falcons
visit the Baltimore Ravens in this Kickoff HD Broadcast.
7:30 PM Atlanta Time
TBS: Braves hosting the Brewers in HD on TBS Atlanta and where
available.
General Sports Notes:
DirecTV and NBC Universal have announced an agreement to show
NBC HD Olympics, USA Network Sports and Bravo HD+ among other
programming to their DirecTV customers. We will report more details as
they as available.
Link: DirecTV/NBC
Olympics
HDNet also has now announced
their MLS Soccer schedule for the remaining season:
MLS on HDNet
Fox Sports Net HD Bay Area Major League Baseball
announcement & Schedule:
Fox
Sports Net Bay Area
CBS Sports and Argent Mortgage team to broadcast 2994 OGA
Championship:
CBS and Argent PGA
Olympic HDTV coverage will total 399 hours and is a completely
different production from the standard definition broadcast on the
network. NBC has 124 HDTV affiliates with the potential to cover 86
percent of the country. Links below:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/tvlistings/index.html
2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Broadcast Schedule (June-July) The most
in-depth Olympic broadcast in history is coming August 11-29 to
the NBC Universal networks
(NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Bravo, Telemundo, NBC HDTV).
InHD on cable
has announced a new HD Sports Series in partnership with Major League
Baseball. The 15 part Series will highlight great Baseball Parks across
the country bringing old footage mixed with new HD scenes. Veteran
parks are scheduled and also the Fiber Optic wired modern replacement
venues that are now built in many cities.
Link to the complete INHD release: MLB
INHD Press Release
Let’s keep watching HD Sports. Forward
any comments, corrections, additional info or suggestions to mailto:[email protected].
Personal notes, barbs, jokes or most anything else you care to fwd my
way, send to the email(s) below.
Regards,
Tom Vrolyk
San Francisco, CA
mailto:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
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