Daily HD Guide — Friday, September 3, 2004

Issue #22                                                                                                                  September 3rd, 2004

Big Saturday = Big HDTV Sports, ESPN-HD has Three (3) HD College games listed this Saturday. If ESPN pulls it off (9+ hrs) it will have to be some kind of milestone for HDTV Football Fans! Plus HDNet has a College aswell!

In recent weeks, No single day has had some much HD Big Time "Live" Sports contents landing on our HD screens.

Bravo HD+  continues US Open Tennis for the second week, beginning on Labor Day, Bravo HD+ will offer full coverage every day leading up to the women's doubles final on Sept. 12 at 1:00 p.m. ET.  

CBS lists 21 hours "Live" US Open Tennis this Holiday weekend, all in HD, starting Saturday. Tennis in HD should really shine with the 16:9 Format, screen aspect ratio of choice, for most new TV productions.
HD Tennis on CBS Sat., Sept. 4 U.S. Open: Men's and Women's third round singles 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sun., Sept. 5 U.S. Open: Men's third round/Women's fourth round 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Mon., Sept. 6 U.S. Open: Men's/Women's fourth round singles 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

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NOTE THURSDAY night Sept. 2nd BOXING :SHOWTIME will televise the Millennium Events in association with Titan Entertainment co-promoted doubleheader from Harrah's Hotel & Casino in Kansas City, Mo., at 11 p.m. ET/PT*. The telecast represents the 50th in the popular "ShoBox" series, which debuted on SHOWTIME in July 2001 The World Boxing Council's (WBC) eighth-ranked middleweight contender, Kuvanych Toygonbayev (23-2, 15 KOs) will square off in a 10-round showdown against Ian Gardner (16-1, seven KOs) In the eight-round co-feature, undefeated middleweight contender Guadalupe Martinez (13-0, nine KOs) will square off against NABC Americas Middleweight Champion Francisco Diaz (12-1, seven KOs

HDNet’s Face 2 Face with Roy Firestone 4:30 PM ET Replay of this episode, Trent Green and Carson Palmer

7:00PM-11:00PM ET Bravo-HD: Live US Open Tennis Championships. All this week they are bringing us a simulcast of the USA PrimeTime Tennis coverage for those lucky to have Bravo HD

7:00PM ET INHD has MLBaseballfor cable folks, with one of three games a week, NY Mets @ Phillies, Philadelphia, PA

7:00PM-11:00PM ET Bravo-HD US Open Tennis Championships. This week they are simulcasting the USA PrimeTime Tennis Coverage every night!

Big Saturday = Big HDTV Sports, ESPN-HD has Three (3) HD College games listed today. If ESPN pulls it off (9+ hrs) it will be an HDTV milestone for HD Sports Fans. Never has a single day had some much HD Big Time "Live" Sports contents landing on our HD screens. CBS is bringing on many hours of HD US Open Tennis ths W'end.

 11:00 AM ET CBS Sports US Open Tennis action from New York Sat., Sept. 4 U.S. Open: Men's and Women's third round singles 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

12:00 PM  ESPN HD College Football Saturday Central Florida Vs Wisconsin Madison, Wi, USA
6:00 PM ESPN HD College Football Saturday Primetime Oregon State Vs Lsu Baton Rouge, La, USA 
9:15 PM ESPN HD College Football Saturday Primetime Notre Dame Vs Byu - Provo, Ut, US

SATURDAY night, 10 PM ET/PT SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING TO FEATURE WBO HEAVYWEGHT CHAMPIONSHIP, UNDISPUTED WELTERWEIGHT TITLE BOUT
WBO Heavyweight Champion "Relentless'' Lamon Brewster
vs. Pan Pacific Heavyweight Champion Kali "Checkmate'' Meehan
On the card, Undisputed Welterweight Champion Cory "The Next Generation'' Spinks vs. Former World Champion/WBC No. 6 Contender Miguel Angel Gonzalez.

SHOWTIME will televise the Don King Productions-promoted world championship doubleheader from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV

  11:00 AM ET CBS Sports US Open Tennis action from New York
U.S. Open: Men's third round/Women's fourth round 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.


2:00PM INHD Networks MLBaseball showing the TX Rangers visiting Boston Red Sox, both teams are in the MLB playoff picture.

7:00PM INHD Network w/MLB  HD continues Cathedrals of the Game: good old Busch Stadium.

11:00 AM ET CBS Sports US Open Tennis action from New York  U.S. Open: Men's/Women's fourth round singles 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m

DAILY! Bravo-HD has more of 65+ hours of US Open Tennis Championships. This week they will offer full coverage every day leading up to the women's doubles final on Sept. 12 at 1:00 p.m. ET.

DAILY! Bravo-HD US Open Tennis Championships. This week they will offer full coverage every day leading up to the women's doubles final on Sept. 12 at 1:00 p.m. ET



7:00PM ET INHD MLBaseball  Twins visit the Orioles from Camden Yards 

DAILY! Bravo-HD US Open Tennis Championships. This week they will offer full coverage every day leading up to the women's doubles final on Sept. 12 at 1:00 p.m. E

SPECIAL Thursday night Opening Game ABC HD NFL Monday Night Football 8:00 pm Sep. 09 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS VS NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS

Olympic links to results:
http://www.athens2004.com/en/results/results

Cool story on the Goodyear Blimp in HD Action for MNF this Season: HD Blimp
Other Links of interest:
CBS to show 3 NFL games a week in HD:
http://www.sportsline.com/cbssports/news/nflnews081004

CBS SPORTS’ BROADCAST OF 2004 U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS TO BE SIMULCAST IN HDTV

High Definition Simulcast Will Include All Six Days of Coverage

NEW YORK, Sept 1, 2004– CBS Sports’ entire live broadcast of the 2004 U.S. Open Tennis Championships -- Saturday, Sept. 4 through Labor Day Monday, September 6, and again Friday, September 10 through Sunday, September 12 -- will be simulcast in High Definition Television, the Network announced today.  While this marks the fifth consecutive year that CBS has simulcast its coverage of the U.S. Open in HDTV, this is the third year the Network will expand its HDTV broadcasts to all six days of its tournament coverage. In addition, this is the third year that the action on the Louis Armstrong Stadium’s Court 2 will be in HD along with the traditional coverage of Center Court in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Once again, a highlight of the broadcast will be the prime time women’s final on Saturday evening, September 11.

In all, CBS will broadcast nearly 40 hours of U.S. Open coverage in HDTV. The broadcast will be a single production so that viewers at home, whether watching in High or Standard Definition, will see the same camera angles and hear the same action. The coverage will be produced using the highest form of Digital Television (DTV), featuring 1,080 lines of resolution (or 2.0 million picture elements). This is the same format CBS presently uses for all its primetime and daytime High Definition programming.

CBS Sports is the industry leader in HDTV broadcasts.  In 2004, CBS Sports will broadcast 37 weekends of premiere event sports programming in high definition. For the last five years, CBS has aired HD productions of the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four and Championship Games, the Masters® Tournament, and college football. CBS Sports also presented the first HDTV broadcast of a PGA TOUR event at the 2001 Sony Open and in 2004 will present an unprecedented 10 PGA TOUR events in HDTV, including the PGA Championship for the first time in HDTV

CBS also broadcast the 2001 and 2004 Super Bowls and all of the 2003 and 2004 AFC Playoffs in HDTV.  CBS Sports was responsible for the first ever broadcast of a professional football game in high definition format on Sunday, November 8, 1998 when the historic broadcast featured the AFC East Division co-leaders, Buffalo Bills against the New York Jets live on the CBS Television Network.  The game was the first of four high definition games presented by CBS Sports during the 1998 season. 
 

CBS broadcasts, on average, 34 hours per week of High Definition programming, more than any other broadcast network, and more original HD programming per week than any other network, broadcast or cable or satellite.  One hundred and eighty-one of CBS's owned and affiliated stations are currently broadcasting in digital, covering approximately 97 percent of the nation.
 

Tom Vrolyk
San Francisco, CA
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