Poll: ESPNews HD is on the air, do you have it yet?
by Richard Lawler 
posted Mar 30th 2008 at 11:03AM
Filed under: ESPN-HD, Sports, New content
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Todd @ Mar 30th 2008 11:23AM
RCN NYC is nope :(
Bhargav Nutakki @ Mar 30th 2008 12:30PM
i get espnnews HD and i have DirecTV
J Epstein @ Mar 30th 2008 1:27PM
you sure you did not see a simulcast on espn 2 hd?
Dayton Guy @ Mar 30th 2008 11:42AM
I saw it on ESPN this morning when they air the hour long version of ESPNEWS and it looks very nice in HD.
Steve @ Mar 30th 2008 11:43AM
Checked and don't see it yet on Directv.
Cosmotic @ Mar 30th 2008 11:44AM
Comcast Atlanta = no.
TRU3L3GEND @ Mar 30th 2008 11:45AM
Houston Comcrap and nothing
Ty @ Mar 30th 2008 11:48AM
Dallas area time warner = nothing
temp1 @ Mar 30th 2008 11:56AM
What's ESPN??? Is it an American thing???
Donald J. Lewis @ Mar 30th 2008 12:15PM
Wouldn't watch it if is was there, who knows maybe it is. Just more jusnk. Put it in with all the other 20-min ads flanked by 10-min of crunb content.
Douglas Brace @ Mar 30th 2008 12:21PM
My Dish Network with dishHD Ultimate and America's Top 200 in Philadelphia doesn't get it
molson3530 @ Mar 30th 2008 12:27PM
Nothing on Central PA Comcast
Bradly @ Mar 30th 2008 12:29PM
Not available on Time Warner Cable - Northeast Wisconsin. We'll be lucky if we see it before the end of the year, really lucky.
Patrick @ Mar 30th 2008 12:39PM
comcast salt lake city= no espnews hd. i was excited for this and contacted comcast to find out if it was going to be available. i talked to 3 different reps and all 3 said that it was currently available (this was last week!) i kept on having to explain to them that espnews is not the same as espnews hd! they did not understand and kept on trying to convince me that they are carrying a channel that at the time did not exist. incompetence.
Tony @ Mar 30th 2008 12:40PM
No go yet on my Directv here.
Big John @ Mar 30th 2008 1:15PM
I wish. It's going to be two years before I can have my own cable provider...
Mike @ Mar 30th 2008 1:18PM
nothing on directv yet makes me a sad panda
Jules Epstein @ Mar 30th 2008 1:20PM
nothing on directv as of now. what systems are carrying it if some folks say they have it
**HD** @ Mar 30th 2008 1:32PM
I have it and it looks great: DirecTV Dallas area
Big Sam @ Mar 30th 2008 11:13PM
Are you sure? I don't see it on DirecTV in Dallas yet.
eric @ Mar 30th 2008 1:48PM
still nothing on Comcast Atlanta.
This is kind of depressing.
Jeremy W @ Mar 30th 2008 1:32PM
DirecTV will be launching it at 6am on April 2nd. On channel 207, obviously.
Jules Epstein @ Mar 30th 2008 3:07PM
who provided the info re wed launch?
Jeremy W @ Mar 30th 2008 3:47PM
A DirecTV employee who would know. Also launching on Wednesday are Disney Channel HD and Toon Disney HD. ABC Family HD was supposed to launch at the same time, but it has been delayed. I don't know why, nor for how long.
Jeff N. @ Mar 30th 2008 1:53PM
I have DirecTV and I don't have it. Yet!
Gozer @ Mar 30th 2008 2:09PM
Verizon FiOs in White Plains, Westchester County, NY = NO. Suxxors!
Doc @ Mar 30th 2008 2:21PM
Oklahoma city..cox communications= no go.
Bluemanrule @ Mar 31st 2008 3:52PM
ditto....OKC, OK Cox Comm. No ESPNHD. Love the acronyms :)
Bill @ Mar 30th 2008 2:34PM
A no here in Southern Ariz. Comcast
PopWeaverHDTV @ Mar 30th 2008 4:10PM
No surprise, Charter Cable in Western NC doesn't have it in HD.
icqpimp @ Mar 30th 2008 4:13PM
No channel for directv hd in philadelphia
bugatti23007 @ Mar 30th 2008 4:31PM
I'm in Brooklyn,NY and I have Directv and its on channel 73 and not on 207.Now I have to try and remember that its on 73
J Epstein @ Mar 30th 2008 6:58PM
I live in Queens and my channel 73 shows ESPN HD not ESPN News HD
Jeremy W @ Mar 30th 2008 8:16PM
Channel 73 is the legacy channel number for ESPN HD. They simulcasted ESPNEWS HD earlier in the day. When ESPNEWS HD launches on Wednesday, it will be on 207. Why is this concept so hard to grasp?
Charles @ Mar 30th 2008 4:55PM
With Comcast? Ha! That's hopeful wishing!
Chris @ Mar 30th 2008 5:13PM
Columbus OH, TWC nothing. Our HD service sucks! only like 10 channels
Sam @ Mar 30th 2008 5:38PM
No go on IO Digital Cable from cablevision...I'll expect it sometime before 2015.
Michael @ Mar 30th 2008 6:10PM
I have Comcast and live in Bristol, Connecticut the same city where ESPN is broadcast from but oddly enough we dont have it you would think that we'd but the first but no
Jeremy W @ Mar 30th 2008 8:17PM
Just string some fiber from the Digital Center into your living room, and you'll be getting the best picture outside of the control room!
Bo @ Mar 30th 2008 6:26PM
Not in RCN Boston.
Ryan @ Mar 30th 2008 6:29PM
Comcast SF Bay Area = No
Todd @ Mar 30th 2008 7:06PM
this is the response i got from RCN customer support:
"We have not been given a definite ETA for when this channel will be available. We have however, been informed that by the end of the year. We will have a greater HD selection. Maybe filling out a channel request form will expedite this channel being added sooner."
now go flood their mailbox with HD requests!!
Mike @ Mar 30th 2008 9:10PM
Comcast in Central NJ and I don't have it here either.
It'd be nice to have it though.
JDS @ Mar 30th 2008 7:42PM
Yo Bhargav Nutakki
What channel is it on?
And are you related to Borat?
Stevey 1337 @ Mar 30th 2008 7:50PM
TWC in Rochester says... no.
The Aggie CEO @ Mar 30th 2008 8:47PM
Piedmont-Triad Time Warner.......
No Sign of it so far........
did see the simulcast on ESPN this morning tho.......looks quite nice.......
stephane bellande @ Mar 30th 2008 11:48PM
i don't have it and i'm boston with comcast
Jamie Bertram @ Mar 31st 2008 12:00AM
No go in GA with DISH
Tiger @ Mar 31st 2008 3:06AM
Jeremy is correct...They said on ESPN News today that it would be available to DirecTV and Dish Network subscribers starting on Wed.
joe salazar @ Mar 31st 2008 7:31PM
directv launch is wednesday, espn dudes mentioned it, also for dishnetwork