HDNet advantage is that we don't have a lodef audience, we can 'frame' and direct the shots based on the widescreen aspect ratio. Let us know what you think -


HDNet announces MLS Broadcast Schedule for the 2007 season

Network’s fifth year of MLS coverage includes 13 exclusive games

Dallas, Texas - Tuesday, March 20th – HDNet announces its high-definition MLS schedule for the 2007 season, including 13 games that will be exclusive to the network. HDNet is the official, national high-definition television partner of MLS.

"We are very excited to kick off another season of MLS on HDNet,” said Mark Cuban, President and Co-founder of HDNet. "There is so much excitement this year, especially with the Galaxy’s acquisition of David Beckham that soccer fans are going to love our high definition coverage of these games!"

HDNet’s schedule, with a total of 31 regular season games, will kick off on Saturday, April 7th as the Columbus Crew host the New York Red Bulls at 7:00 pm ET, in what will likely be U.S. National Team legend Claudio Reyna’s MLS debut.

On April 28th, HDNet brings viewers expansion club Toronto FC’s first-ever home game from the brand new BMO Field as they take on the Kansas City Wizards.

Among the exclusive games on HDNet is a rematch of last year’s Western Conference Championship game when the defending MLS Cup Champion Houston Dynamo travel to the new home of the Colorado Rapids, Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, on Saturday, August 11th.

MLS fans will likely get one of their first high definition looks at international soccer star David Beckham as his Los Angeles Galaxy take on Real Salt Lake at the Home Depot Center on Saturday, September 1st.

HDNet’s schedule includes a live game broadcast each weekend throughout the regular season, most of them falling on Saturday nights.

2007 MLS on HDNet
All times Eastern
Schedule Subject to Change

Day/Date Time (ET) Visitor Home
Saturday, April 7th 7:00pm New York Columbus
Saturday, April 14th 8:30pm Chivas USA Houston
Saturday, April 21st 8:30pm Kansas City Chicago*
Saturday, April 28th 12:30pm Kansas City Toronto
Saturday, May 5th 9:00pm New York Real Salt Lake*
Saturday, May 12th 10:30pm New England Los Angeles
Saturday, May 19th 9:00pm Kansas City Colorado*
Saturday, May 26th 7:30pm Houston DC*
Saturday, June 2nd 7:30pm Real Salt Lake New England
Saturday, June 9th 8:30pm Los Angeles Dallas
Saturday, June 16th 7:30pm Chicago DC*
Saturday, June 23rd 10:30pm Columbus Los Angeles
Saturday, June 30th 8:00pm New York Columbus
Wednesday, July 4th 10:30pm Chicago Los Angeles
Saturday, July 7th 7:30pm Chivas USA New England
Saturday, July 14th 10:30pm Columbus Chivas USA *
Saturday, August 4th 8:30pm Columbus Chivas USA*
Saturday, August 11th 9:00pm Houston Colorado*
Saturday, August 18th 7:30pm DC Columbus
Saturday, August 25th 8:30pm Kansas City Chicago*
Saturday, Sept. 1st 10:30pm Real Salt Lake Los Angeles*
Saturday, Sept. 8th 8:30pm Real Salt Lake Houston*
Saturday, Sept. 15th 8:00pm Columbus Kansas City*
Wednesday, Sept. 19th 9:00pm Los Angeles Real Salt Lake
Saturday, Sept. 22nd 7:30pm New England New York
Sunday, Sept. 23rd 8:00pm Dallas Los Angeles
Saturday, Sept. 29th 7:30pm Toronto DC*
Sunday, Sept. 30th 5:00pm Los Angeles Columbus
Saturday, October, 6th 9:00pm Chivas USA Real Salt Lake
Saturday, October 13th 7:30pm Chicago DC
Saturday, October 20th 12:30pm New England Toronto

* HDNet Exclusive Telecast

About HDNet
HDNet (www.hd.net) provides viewers with the best in original comedy, drama, news, sports and music programming.

HDNet is your exclusive, high-definition home for popular, critically acclaimed original programming, including television’s only HD news feature programs “HDNet World Report”, “NASA on HDNet” (presenting live shuttle launches through 2010), and, “Dan Rather Reports” featuring legendary journalist Dan Rather. HDNet presents championship sports coverage featuring the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, NASCAR Grand National Division, boxing and Mixed Martial Arts; groundbreaking music programming with the HDNet Concert Series featuring leading artists and bands including U2, Eminem, Gwen Stefani and more, plus original music programs “Sound Off with Matt Pinfield”, and True Music w/Katie Daryl”; entertaining interview shows including“Face 2 Face with Roy Firestone” and “Higher Definition”, in addition to fun and irreverent lifestyle programming including “Geek to Freak with Dennis Rodman”, “Deadline!”, “Art Mann Presents”, and “Get Out!” HDNet is also the exclusive high-definition home to the critically acclaimed and award winning programs such as the Emmy Award winning “Arrested Development”, “Star Trek: Enterprise”, “Dead Like Me”, “Smallville”, “Joan of Arcadia”, “Boomtown” and “Andy Richter Controls the Universe”.

HDNet Movies produces and broadcasts more original movies than any other network and is the exclusive home of day and date movie releases from HDNet Films including the Academy Award nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, Toronto Film Festival nominee “The War Within”, and “Bubble”, the first of six movies by acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh and produced exclusively for HDNet Films. Other HDNet Films releases include “One Last Thing” starring Cynthia Nixon, “Herbie
Hancock: Possibilities”, and Matt Taubers’ Tribeca Film Festival nominee “The Architect”, starring Anthony LaPaglia and Isabella Rossellini. Coming soon are “Diggers”, starring Paul Rudd, Ron Eldard, Maura Tierney and Lauren Ambrose, “Quid Pro Quo”, starring Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga, “Hunter”, the story of the life and death of infamous gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson from director Alex Gibney, and producer Graydon Carter. Also coming soon are “Fay Grim”, from maverick writer-director Hal Hartley, starring Superman’s Parker Posey and Jeff Goldblum, and “Broken English”, from Zoe Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo and Griffin Dunne. Many more are to come.

HDNet Movies also features a wide selection of major studio theatrical releases – all uncut, unedited, and appearing in their original aspect ratio so that HDNet viewers get the best possible home theater experience.

Launched in 2001 by Mark Cuban and General Manager Philip Garvin, the HDNet networks are available on Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and more than 40 NCTC cable affiliate companies. For more information visit www.hd.net.

Can't wait :rolleyes:

Can't wait :rolleyes:

Wish I got HDNet, but it will never happen.

Fantastic!

Kurt - Can you put something in the online program descriptions beside just "Team A vs. Team B" so that we can create a TiVo season pass to record all of the games? Something like "live MLS soccer" so that all games can be recorded with a single keyword. I really enjoy watching MLS games on HDNet but miss most of them because I can't record them automatically. Thanks.

i wish somehow they could get the rights to the epl and pick up the hd sky sports broadcasts.

i wish somehow they could get the rights to the epl and pick up the hd sky sports broadcasts.
Oh hell yeah. If HDNet could do that I would paint HDNet in permanent marker on my face. That is of course if they weren't outbid by Golden Palace. :D ok maybe not.
HDNet advantage is that we don't have a lodef audience, we can 'frame' and direct the shots based on the widescreen aspect ratio. Let us know what you think -
This is a list of reason why I much prefer HDNet over ESPN and FSC.

Games in HD and 5.1. Although now ESPN can say that.
Announcers that actually have knowledge of the game. During the WC you heard guys who I've never heard announce soccer games before doing it. The best ESPN announcers were relegated to studio shows.
Little bity tiny scoreboard in the upper left hand corner. That's all that we need.
We actually get crowd noise. My wife has to come in and turn the sound down because she keeps hearing that horn sound.
Framed for 16x9. We get to see a lot more of the field.

Great job HDNet.

i wish somehow they could get the rights to the epl and pick up the hd sky sports broadcasts.

Man, I would pay good money for that.

I missed the first week but caught Saturday nights game. I was happy to see the game but the PQ was terrible. It looked even worse than my local NBC's attempts at NFL with 14.5 mbps. I hope D* fixes this with mpeg-4.