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Time Warner Cable has announced that two dozens of new channels will be added to Raleigh, NC subscribers in November and December. Time Warner is aggressively expanding its high-definition programming in Carolinas and now Raleigh subscribers will be blessed with 22 new HD channels and two standard definition channels before end of January. Following are the channels lined-up for Raleigh
subscribers:

ABC Family HD

TMC HD and

The Weather Channel HD

Time Warner will also deliver MLB and Sprout in standard definition.

Time Warner Cable has announced the launch of 24 new high-definition channels in the Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island areas of New York. Time Warner new high-definition channels takes its tally to 83 HD channels in New York area. The cable operator has already claimed that they will end up the year with 100 HD channels and with these new channels its nearing the land mark of 100, and the subscribers understands that the operator has more HD channels to deliver in November and December.

Following new HD channels are added:

Action MAX HD - Channel 660
Cartoon Network HD - Channel 772
Encore HD - Channel 682
Five Star Max HD - Channel 664
FX HD - Channel 737
HBO Comedy HD - Channel 655
HBO Family HD - Channel 654
HBO Latino HD - Channel 657
HBO Signature HD - Channel 653
HBO Zone HD - Channel 656
HBO2 HD - Channel 652
MAX HD - Channel 663
More MAX HD - Channel 659
Outer MAX HD - Channel 665
Showtime Extreme HD - Channel 669
Showtime Showcase HD - Channel 668
Speed HD - Channel 774
Thriller MAX HD - Channel 661
TMC Xtra HD - Channel 675
WMAX HD - Channel 662

Time Warner Cable’s New HD Sports Channels are:

Big Ten Network HD - Channel 472
CBS College Sports HD - Channel 467
ESPNU HD - Channel 793
NHL Network HD - Channel 795
Tennis Channel HD - Channel 465

Howard Szarfarc, executive vice president of Time Warner’s New York region said “By adding 24 new channels to our HD offerings, Time Warner Cable is an even better value for HD viewers, Four of them are free with digital service, By year’s end, we are poised to carry 100 HD channels.”

Verizon has launched 88 new channels, including 66 additional high-definition channels in FiOS TV programming line-up in California. Verizon now offers more than 100 HD channels and this is more than any other operators like Charter and Time Warner Cable in California. FiOS TV subscribers are blessed with 102 HD channels, 800 HD VOD titles available at any time and excess of 700 high-definition video-on-demand (VOD) titles offered each month. Following are the new channels launched:

Animal Planet HD
Bravo HD
FX HD
History Channel HD
Lifetime HD
SCI FI HD
Science Channel HD
Smithsonian Channel HD
TBS HD
The Biography Channel HD
TLC HD
USA HD and
Weather Channel HD

Verizon’s HD News Channels

CNN HD
CNBC HD
Fox Business Network HD and
Fox News Channel HD

Home and Leisure Programming in HD

Planet Green HD
QVC HD and
The Travel Channel HD

Kids and Teens HD Channels

ABC Family HD
Disney Channel HD and
Toon Disney HD

Movie Channels

MGM HD
The Hallmark Movie Channel HD
Cinemax - 11 HD channels
HBO - 13 HD channels and
The Movie Channel - 13 HD channels

FiOS TV customers in California will get more movie HD channels through Starz and Showtime, which includes The Movie Channel Xtra HD, Starz Edge HD, Starz Comedy HD, Starz Kids and Family HD, Showtime HD, Showtime Showcase HD, Showtime Extreme HD and Showtime 2 HD.

Sports Channels in HD

Big Ten Network HD
The Tennis Channel HD
NHL Network HD
Versus HD/Golf Channel HD
The Outdoor Channel 2
World Fishing Network
Mav TV
ESPNews HD and
Speed HD

Verizon’s new Standard-Definition (SD) Channels in California are:

Big Ten Network
Current TV
Reelz
RFD TV
Setanta Sports
Veria TV and
WAPA TV

Kathy Koelle, general manager for Verizon’s West Coast region said “FiOS TV is the only service to consider if you want the ultimate HD experience, with our increased number of HD channels, along with HD video-on-demand programming and our current HD DVR and premium movie promotion, we’re blowing cable away. The addition of new HD and sports channels, along with new multicultural content and more, is part of our commitment to lead the industry in the scope and quality of our programming.”

Verizon is also now offering a year’s free use of either an HD DVR or an HD Home Media DVR to consumers who sign up for FiOS TV by Oct. 31.

Time Warner Cable partners with ActiveVideo Networks to launch Web Video to subscribers in Hawaii. This new television experience will deliver Oceanic Time Warner Cable subscribers in Hawaii with Web content and interactivity directly to the televisions. This new service delivers web based contents to any digital set-top box. ActiveVideo with its vast experience will deliver the quality, immediacy and remote-control navigation that is expected of television. Time Warner to include interactive experience is home shopping from HSN; and news, sports and children’s versions of P: Mosai, an intuitive, fully personalized video navigation system that allows consumers to view, customize and navigate through their favorite channels at a single glance.

“One of cable television’s greatest strengths is its ability to serve customers with content that is important to them locally, and even personally,” said Nate Smith, president of Oceanic Time Warner Cable. “Our launch of ActiveVideo expands our ability to deliver to our customers diversity, personalization, and targeting, through a wide range of video choices.

Time Warner Cable has announced that Big Ten Network will be added to its digital and high-definition programming line-up in Raleigh / Durham, Greensboro on 25th September. Time Warner subscribers need a digital converter box to receive the Big Ten Sports programming. Big Ten Network in standard definition will be available on channel 323 in Raleigh, 189 in Greensboro, 136 in Charlotte, 425 in Statesville/Iredell, 135 in Wilmington and 148 in South Carolina. High-Definition programming will be available on 287 in Raleigh, 571 in Greensboro, 288 in Charlotte, 719 in Statesville/Iredell, 954 in Wilmington and 956 in South Carolina.

Warner Bros has added 85 classic movies to its Video on Demand (VOD) celebrating Warner Bros. Entertainment’s 85th Anniversary. These movies will be available first time in high definition on VOD. “Superman: The Movie,” “Casablanca” and “Full Metal Jacket” were launched in satellite providers DirecTV and DISH Network and also on cable operators like Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Cable, Time Warner Cable and Rogers Cable (Canada).
Following are the Titles offered :
Absolute Power
All the President’s Men
An American in Paris
Analyze This
Any Given Sunday
Arthur
Beetlejuice
Ben Hur
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blood Work
Bonnie and Clyde
Casablanca
Chariots of Fire
A Clockwork Orange
Collateral Damage
Constantine
Cool Hand Luke
Deliverance
Devil’s Advocate
Dial M for Murder
Dirty Harry
Doctor Zhivago
Dog Day Afternoon
Enter the Dragon
Eraser
The Exorcist
Fear dot com
The Fugitive
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
Green Mile
Grumpy Old Men
Horror of Dracula
I Confess
Interview with the Vampire
The Killing Fields
Last Samurai
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 4
Little Shop of Horrors
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Maltese Falcon
Mars Attacks!
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revisited
Matrix Revolutions
Million Dollar Baby
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Natural Born Killers
Ocean’s Eleven (1960)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Ocean’s Twelve
Once Upon a Time in America
Pale Rider
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
The Philadelphia Story
Presumed Innocent
The Road Warrior
Rebel without a Cause
The Right Stuff
Risky Business
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Singin’ in the Rain
Space Jam
Spies Like Us
Stage Fright
Strangers on a Train
Streetcar Named Desire
Superman II
Superman III
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Superman: The Movie
Suspicion
Three Kings
Training Day
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Troy
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Under Siege
Unforgiven
The Wrong Man

Time Warner Cable subscribers in North Texas will be offered with 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as Time Warner Cable has announced that they reached an agreement with NBC Universal (NBCU) to bring more than 1,200 total hours of Olympics coverage on seven NBCU networks like NBC, USA Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo and Universal HD. Time Warner Cable North Texas is offering to its customers Free On Demand and HD services, as well as broadband content from NBCOlympics.com via a link from the Time Warner Cable Road Runner website.

Time Warner Cable’s HD sport-specific channels will be offered to subscribers in the upgraded HD areas including Dallas, Plano, Richardson, Flower Mound, Double Oak, Highland Village Lewisville, Coppell, Grapevine, Irving, Mesquite, Bedford, Colleyville and Euless.

Time Warner will also deliver more than 800 hours of HD coverage on select NBCU HD networks

NBC HD Local - 225 hours of HD coverage

NBC Universal HD - Channel 742 - 379 hours of simulcasts and re-airs of CNBC and MSNBC

CNBC HD+ - Channel 742 - Simulcast, 95.5 hours

USA HD - Channel 743 - Simulcast, 165 hours

HD sport-specific channels: NBC Olympic Soccer Channel and NBC Olympic Basketball Channel, approximately 12 hours per day during the Games.

“We are pleased to be offering our customers NBC Universal’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games which showcases the power of Time Warner Cable’s digital video and Road Runner High Speed services,” said Robert V. Moel, division president Time Warner Cable North Texas. “We hope everyone enjoys this programming, which includes an unprecedented amount of high definition, On Demand and broadband Olympics-related content, all made easily accessible for no additional charge to our HD digital video and Road Runner subscribers.”

Outdoor Channel has announced that Outdoor Channel HD is launched on Time Warner Cable. Outdoor Channel has started shooting 80 percent of its programming in high-definition. The network’s programming includes Trout Unlimited on the Rise, Adventures Abroad and Tarpon of Boca, The Catch: Costa Rica and Fly Fishing the World in high-definition. Subscribers in following areas will receive programming of Outdoor Channel in high-definition.

Kansas City, Missouri

Portland, Maine

Rochester, New York and

San Antonio, Texas

“Time Warner Cable is supporting its many subscribers who are outdoor enthusiasts by committing to Outdoor Channel HD” said, Randy Brown, Senior Vice President of Affiliate Sales & Marketing at Outdoor Channel.

Time Warner added twelve new high-definition channels in Kansas City. Time Warner Cable uses switched digital video platform to deliver all these channels to Kansas subscribers. The new HD channels available for the Time Warner’s Kansas City customers are :

Animal Planet HD

Biography HD

CNN HD

ESPN News HD

Fox News HD

Outdoor Channel

Planet Green HD

Science Channel

TBS HD

TLC HD

Travel Channel HD and

Versus/Golf HD

Time Warner Cable has announced that the subscribers in Irving and Las Colinas in Texas area will receive Six new high-definition channels. Time Warner’s new HD channel launch in these areas will be :
A&E HD
CNN HD
Discovery HD
History HD
National Geographic HD and
TBS HD