Official AVS National HD Channel Lineups - Cable/DBS/Fiber/IPTV - Updated 01/10/10!

URFloorMatt · 08-11-08, 01:54 PM

The above chart details national carriage agreements with the top television service providers in the United States for all presently available or announced non-exclusive HD channels. Providers listed include the two major DBS carriers, the top ten cable MSOs, and Verizon and AT&T's fiber services, which are being built to compete on a national basis (albeit only in select markets at this time). Other providers have been excluded because their footprint is simply too small. The eleventh largest cable MSO, for instance, serves only half as many cable subscribers as the smallest provider on our chart.

This chart has also begun tracking of subscription sports packages with HD coverage. All cable providers marked above and Verizon FiOS offer their sports packages through InDemand's two HD channels, Team HD and Game HD. As such, they offer a limited amount (one or two games) of HD coverage on any given night with their package. DirecTV has made independent agreements that allow it to broadcast significantly more HD coverage to its subscribers.

This chart does not track carriage of RSNs. For a detailed breakdown of RSN availability, you should visit the Official AVS HDTV Programming Synopsis.

A tip of the hat to all the AVS members who have contributed to the spreadsheet over the years, and a special thanks to CycloneGT, nataraj, and sansri88 for their prior work updating and compiling the spreadsheet.

Refresh to ensure you're viewing the most recent version, dated 01/10/2010. Any additions, suggestions, and corrections are welcome.

An Excel 2007 version is attached. Users of older versions of Excel can download the free Office Compatibility Pack to edit in Excel 2000, XP, or 2003.

URFloorMatt · 01-10-10, 10:30 AM

The latest update is complete.

The following announced channels have been purged from the chart: Africa Channel, Black Broadcasting Network, Black Television News Channel, Chiller, SiTV, and Sleuth. All announcements for carriage of new channels made by providers prior to 2009 that had not yet materialized have also been removed. As a general rule of thumb, the only announcements, either of new channels or carriage agreements, now include those announced or updated during 2009. Everything that was removed had been an announcement idle for roughly one year.

The chart has begun tracking major sports subscription packages that are available in HD. These are not included in the channel count breakdown at the top of the chart. Because this is a new section on the chart, I am of course very open to suggestions on how to improve it. It's also possible that some of the information is incomplete, so please update us if that's true.

Finally, as always, please update us as channels go from limited availability to wide availability on the cable operators. Since cable operators roll out channels on a market-by-market basis, my default selection is "limited availability" unless a press release or someone here indicates otherwise.

I accidentally glossed right over the fact that FSC HD is live on some Charter systems and GMC HD is limited for TWC. Those will be in next month's update.

fredfa · 01-10-10, 11:17 AM

Great work, Matt. Thanks for all the effort.

HDOrlando · 01-10-10, 12:14 PM

Well Done Matt!

faulknkid · 01-10-10, 09:32 PM

Great Job as always Matt!!! Just one suggestion. You left off the REDZONE football package. Obviously it is over for this year, but none the less is still a sports package.

Ken H · 01-10-10, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by faulknkid

Great Job as always Matt!!! Just one suggestion. You left off the REDZONE football package. Obviously it is over for this year, but none the less is still a sports package.

DirecTV Red Zone is not a package, it's part of NFL Sunday Ticket.

NFL RedZone is a channel, which is listed.

ehren · 01-10-10, 10:40 PM

Might as well say Dish only has 85 since Centric and Logo show zilch for HD content. Also BET has like 2% HD per month?

wiltshp · 01-11-10, 02:50 PM

You're missing 3 of the channels that u-verse has. I know these are newer, but wanted to give a heads up.

1163 - Crime & Investigation HD
1272 - Biography HD
1274 - History International HD

HDOrlando · 01-11-10, 04:41 PM

wiltshp,

They must have been added yesterday or today as neither is listed on U-Verse's site at the moment.

Marcus Carr · 01-12-10, 01:46 AM

TV Land HD coming to TWC, Cablevision.

The Pentagon Channel HD coming to TWC.

http://www.cvadsales.com/networks.html

http://www.timewarnercable.com/sandi...galnotice.html

AndyHDTV · 01-12-10, 02:23 AM

Sundance-HD & Hallmark-HD also announced for TWC on that legal notice.

AndyHDTV · 01-12-10, 02:43 AM

Fox Soccer Plus-HD to launch on 03/01/10. no carriers yet.

HDOrlando · 01-12-10, 04:32 AM

Bright House Tampa got the 7 Viacom HD Channels.

Spike, Comedy Central and Nick are already limited for Bright House.

Please change the following to "Limited"

Bet HD
CMT HD
MTV HD
VH1 HD

wiltshp · 01-12-10, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HDOrlando

wiltshp,

They must have been added yesterday or today as neither is listed on U-Verse's site at the moment.

Orlando, you are correct they are still pretty new. You can read about them here. I'm sure by your next update they will be official on the ATT Website.

utalk.att.com/utalk/board/message?board.id=Uverse_TV_Programming&thread.id=45230

URFloorMatt · 01-12-10, 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndyHDTV

Fox Soccer Plus-HD to launch on 03/01/10. no carriers yet.

I read that press release, and I got a little confused. Does that mean there are now two Fox Soccer HD channels (FSC-HD and FSP-HD)? I couldn't tell if Fox Soccer Plus was in addition to FSC-HD or in leiu of it.

There seemed to be some confusion as to whether FSC-HD actually launched the first of this year as promised.

dm145 · 01-12-10, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marcus Carr

TV Land HD coming to Cablevision.

http://www.cvadsales.com/networks.html

Sorry but late night posting should be avoided !

That link proves nothing.

AndyHDTV · 01-12-10, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by URFloorMatt

I read that press release, and I got a little confused. Does that mean there are now two Fox Soccer HD channels (FSC-HD and FSP-HD)? I couldn't tell if Fox Soccer Plus was in addition to FSC-HD or in leiu of it.

There seemed to be some confusion as to whether FSC-HD actually launched the first of this year as promised.

I was confused at first as well. I had to re-read it. the key line was "A Companion To FSC"

HDOrlando · 01-12-10, 06:16 PM

TV Land will probably have next to no HD programming.

Remember that Oxygen HD, Sleuth HD and Chiller HD have also been announced in the past and not materalized so it might not happen.

It is good to see almost all of the channels in or at least publicly planning to get in HD.

HDOrlando · 01-12-10, 06:19 PM

wiltshp,

I have all three with my Bright House Cable.

If I ever had to move out of Bright House territory and into Comcast's, I would strongly consider U-Verse as an option and those channels would help make my decision easier although not having MLB Network and NBA TV would be a bummer.

Marcus Carr · 01-13-10, 05:48 PM

Mediacom will launch Epix in April.

http://www.multichannel.com/article/...x_In_April.php

jikei · 01-19-10, 02:53 PM

also as Marcus Carr posted here

http://www.multichannel.com/article/..._On_Jan_25.php

Quote:

Sportsman Channel Goes HD On Jan. 25
Expects To Name Initial Affiliates Later This Quarter

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also, totally useless and probably will be live by the time this gets updated next, but as Marcus Carr posted here, Hallmark Channel HD officially launches on 2/1

HDOrlando · 01-19-10, 06:52 PM

The Sportsman channel definitely needed to do this fast.

Outdoor shows are amongst the things that look the best in HD and without HD, they were no match for Versus and Outdoor channel because why watch their programming when you can get outdoor HD programming on another network.

HDOrlando · 01-21-10, 05:44 PM

Bright House Birmingham added 8 new HD channels. The channels are the Viacom HD Suite and Gospel Music Channel HD

http://birmingham.brighthouse.com/pr...s/default.aspx

Please change Gospel Music Channel HD to Limited for Bright House.

BTW: If one more affiliate picks up Spike, Comedy Central and Nick, it will become wide for BHN. That's pretty fast given TWC just made the deal for them to piggyback on.

mws192 · 01-21-10, 06:36 PM

HGTV and Food Network are back on Cablevision.

Wide avail.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...ediadecodernyt

ivorygate · 01-23-10, 07:49 PM

For Mediacom, Bravo should be orange (limited), as we don't have it in HD in eastern Iowa.
We also don't have CNBC HD+.

siouxmoux · 01-25-10, 06:12 PM

Today ATT UV added HSN HD on ch 1422.

fredfa · 01-26-10, 10:46 AM

From Rob Owen, TV Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 26, 2010

Today Comcast migrates more than a dozen channels in the City of Pittsburgh from Standard cable to one of the so-called digital tiers.

In addition, Comcast has added ... the following HD channels:

BET-HD 866
Biography-HD 874
Bravo-HD 832
Cartoon-HD 878
CMT-HD 883
CNBC-HD 819
Comedy Central-HD 828
Disney XD-HD 877
E!-HD 833
Encore-HD 891
ESPNews-HD 852
Fox Business Channel-HD 821
Fuse-HD 885
G4-HD 867
Hallmark Movie Channel-HD 894
Headline News-HD 816
Indep. Film Channel-HD 893
Lifetime Movie Network-HD 895
Lifetime-HD 835
MGM-HD 892
MLB Network-HD 859
MTV-HD 884
NBA TV-HD 863
NHL Network-HD 858
Nickelodeon-HD 879
Planet Green-HD 873
QVC-HD 806
Spike-HD 827
Style-HD 834
TCM-HD 890
Travel Channel-HD 840
truTV-HD 841
TV One-HD 865
VH1-HD 886
Weather Channel-HD 815
WE-HD 836
http://community.post-gazette.com/bl....aspx#comments

eureka22 · 01-26-10, 01:31 PM

My Mediacom system (Roanoke, IL) does have the following HD channels.

AMC
Lifetime Movie Channel
MSNBC
Travel Channel

What a great resource to see how everyone compares. Thanks Matt.

HDOrlando · 01-29-10, 04:55 PM

Bright House Michigan adding 3 HD channels on Feb 18.

Please change these Three to "Wide" on Bright House

Comedy Central HD
Nick HD
Spike HD

shooter21198 · 01-30-10, 10:12 AM

Time Warner Cable North East Ohio and Mid Ohio added:
Nick HD
CMT HD
VH1 HD
MTV HD
BET HD
Spike HD
Comedy Central HD

would these channels be considered wide now

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URFloorMatt AVS Special Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,212	The latest update is complete. The following announced channels have been purged from the chart: Africa Channel, Black Broadcasting Network, Black Television News Channel, Chiller, SiTV, and Sleuth. All announcements for carriage of new channels made by providers prior to 2009 that had not yet materialized have also been removed. As a general rule of thumb, the only announcements, either of new channels or carriage agreements, now include those announced or updated during 2009. Everything that was removed had been an announcement idle for roughly one year. The chart has begun tracking major sports subscription packages that are available in HD. These are not included in the channel count breakdown at the top of the chart. Because this is a new section on the chart, I am of course very open to suggestions on how to improve it. It's also possible that some of the information is incomplete, so please update us if that's true. Finally, as always, please update us as channels go from limited availability to wide availability on the cable operators. Since cable operators roll out channels on a market-by-market basis, my default selection is "limited availability" unless a press release or someone here indicates otherwise. I accidentally glossed right over the fact that FSC HD is live on some Charter systems and GMC HD is limited for TWC. Those will be in next month's update. __________________ The Official AVS National HD Channel Lineups - Cable, DBS, Fiber - Updated 01/10/10! Last edited by URFloorMatt; 01-10-10 at 10:38 AM..

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fredfa AVS moderator AVS GOLD CLUB MEMBER Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Tarpon Springs FL 34688 Posts: 45,646	Great work, Matt. Thanks for all the effort. __________________ The Latest TV News, Comments, Reviews and Ratings

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faulknkid New Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	Great Job as always Matt!!! Just one suggestion. You left off the REDZONE football package. Obviously it is over for this year, but none the less is still a sports package.

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Marcus Carr HDTVangelist Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Baltimore City Posts: 6,756	TV Land HD coming to TWC, Cablevision. The Pentagon Channel HD coming to TWC. http://www.cvadsales.com/networks.html http://www.timewarnercable.com/sandi...galnotice.html __________________ YOU ARE READING AVS FORUM

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AndyHDTV AVS Special Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 1,649	Sundance-HD & Hallmark-HD also announced for TWC on that legal notice. __________________ Email Melinda Witmer at TWC Corporate, the SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF PROGRAMMING OFFICER if you want more HD Channels!!! Melinda.Witmer@twcable.com I Do Blu!

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HDOrlando Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Orlando Posts: 188	Well Done Matt!

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ehren I like Cheesecake Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Hell, 25 minutes south of Madison, WI Posts: 1,170	Might as well say Dish only has 85 since Centric and Logo show zilch for HD content. Also BET has like 2% HD per month?

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wiltshp New Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 3	You're missing 3 of the channels that u-verse has. I know these are newer, but wanted to give a heads up. 1163 - Crime & Investigation HD 1272 - Biography HD 1274 - History International HD

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HDOrlando Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Orlando Posts: 188	wiltshp, They must have been added yesterday or today as neither is listed on U-Verse's site at the moment.

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AndyHDTV AVS Special Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 1,649	Fox Soccer Plus-HD to launch on 03/01/10. no carriers yet. __________________ Email Melinda Witmer at TWC Corporate, the SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF PROGRAMMING OFFICER if you want more HD Channels!!! Melinda.Witmer@twcable.com I Do Blu!

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HDOrlando Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Orlando Posts: 188	Bright House Tampa got the 7 Viacom HD Channels. Spike, Comedy Central and Nick are already limited for Bright House. Please change the following to "Limited" Bet HD CMT HD MTV HD VH1 HD Last edited by HDOrlando; 01-19-10 at 06:50 PM..

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HDOrlando Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Orlando Posts: 188	TV Land will probably have next to no HD programming. Remember that Oxygen HD, Sleuth HD and Chiller HD have also been announced in the past and not materalized so it might not happen. It is good to see almost all of the channels in or at least publicly planning to get in HD.

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HDOrlando Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Orlando Posts: 188	wiltshp, I have all three with my Bright House Cable. If I ever had to move out of Bright House territory and into Comcast's, I would strongly consider U-Verse as an option and those channels would help make my decision easier although not having MLB Network and NBA TV would be a bummer.

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Marcus Carr HDTVangelist Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Baltimore City Posts: 6,756	Mediacom will launch Epix in April. http://www.multichannel.com/article/...x_In_April.php __________________ YOU ARE READING AVS FORUM

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HDOrlando Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Orlando Posts: 188	The Sportsman channel definitely needed to do this fast. Outdoor shows are amongst the things that look the best in HD and without HD, they were no match for Versus and Outdoor channel because why watch their programming when you can get outdoor HD programming on another network.

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HDOrlando Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Orlando Posts: 188	Bright House Birmingham added 8 new HD channels. The channels are the Viacom HD Suite and Gospel Music Channel HD http://birmingham.brighthouse.com/pr...s/default.aspx Please change Gospel Music Channel HD to Limited for Bright House. BTW: If one more affiliate picks up Spike, Comedy Central and Nick, it will become wide for BHN. That's pretty fast given TWC just made the deal for them to piggyback on.

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mws192 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: CT Posts: 283	HGTV and Food Network are back on Cablevision. Wide avail. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...ediadecodernyt

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ivorygate Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Eastern Iowa Posts: 135	For Mediacom, Bravo should be orange (limited), as we don't have it in HD in eastern Iowa. We also don't have CNBC HD+.

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siouxmoux Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 24	Today ATT UV added HSN HD on ch 1422.

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fredfa AVS moderator AVS GOLD CLUB MEMBER Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Tarpon Springs FL 34688 Posts: 45,646	From Rob Owen, TV Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 26, 2010 Today Comcast migrates more than a dozen channels in the City of Pittsburgh from Standard cable to one of the so-called digital tiers. In addition, Comcast has added ... the following HD channels: BET-HD 866 Biography-HD 874 Bravo-HD 832 Cartoon-HD 878 CMT-HD 883 CNBC-HD 819 Comedy Central-HD 828 Disney XD-HD 877 E!-HD 833 Encore-HD 891 ESPNews-HD 852 Fox Business Channel-HD 821 Fuse-HD 885 G4-HD 867 Hallmark Movie Channel-HD 894 Headline News-HD 816 Indep. Film Channel-HD 893 Lifetime Movie Network-HD 895 Lifetime-HD 835 MGM-HD 892 MLB Network-HD 859 MTV-HD 884 NBA TV-HD 863 NHL Network-HD 858 Nickelodeon-HD 879 Planet Green-HD 873 QVC-HD 806 Spike-HD 827 Style-HD 834 TCM-HD 890 Travel Channel-HD 840 truTV-HD 841 TV One-HD 865 VH1-HD 886 Weather Channel-HD 815 WE-HD 836 http://community.post-gazette.com/bl....aspx#comments __________________ The Latest TV News, Comments, Reviews and Ratings

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eureka22 New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Eureka, IL Posts: 8	My Mediacom system (Roanoke, IL) does have the following HD channels. AMC Lifetime Movie Channel MSNBC Travel Channel What a great resource to see how everyone compares. Thanks Matt.

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HDOrlando Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Orlando Posts: 188	Bright House Michigan adding 3 HD channels on Feb 18. Please change these Three to "Wide" on Bright House Comedy Central HD Nick HD Spike HD

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shooter21198 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Erie (Millcreek) Pennsylvania Posts: 321	Time Warner Cable North East Ohio and Mid Ohio added: Nick HD CMT HD VH1 HD MTV HD BET HD Spike HD Comedy Central HD would these channels be considered wide now __________________ Time Warner Cable North East Ohio SA 4250 HDC Last edited by shooter21198; 02-02-10 at 04:23 PM..