HDNet And MLB Announce Full Season Of High-Definition Broadcasts

27-Mar-02

Major League Baseball and HDNet, the all-high-definition sports and entertainment network, have finalized plans to broadcast 80 Major League Baseball (MLB) games in high-definition (HD) during the 2002 regular season.The 2002 HDNet MLB broadcast schedule begins with the Detroit Tigers-Minnesota Twins game on April 13.HDNet, which is located on DIRECTVÆ channel 199, originally reached an agreement with MLB in September 2001 to broadcast 12 MLB games to viewers in the highest quality 1080i HD format for the remainder of the 2001 season.""We are continually striving to take advantage of new broadcasting technologies in order to provide our fans with the most exciting Major League Baseball coverage,"" said Tim Brosnan, Executive Vice President, Business for Major League Baseball. ""This agreement with HDNet will give Major League Baseball fans the chance to watch their favorite teams and players in the highest quality broadcast format available.""HDNet, the world's only national network broadcasting all HD, all the time, produces its MLB game broadcasts in conjunction with certain Fox Sports Net (FSN) regional outlets, sharing audio and graphics with FSN's standard-definition production units.""Watching an MLB game in high-definition is the next best thing to being in the ballpark,"" said Mark Cuban, co-founder of HDNet. ""We had great success broadcasting Major League Baseball games during the last month of the 2001 season, and we look forward to working with MLB and Fox Sports Net to bring fans more exciting HDTV baseball action in 2002.""The April live broadcast schedule is listed below (all times are Eastern). The HDNet Web site at www.hd.net lists additional games through May.

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