Post by MasterFX1 on Aug 12, 2004 9:44:03 GMT -5
WNYT NewsChannel 13 and Time Warner Cable Announce Digital Retransmission Agreement
High Definition Olympics Coverage to Air on Cable System
Albany, NY, August 12,2004-WNYT-TV and Time Warner Cable of Albany announced today an agreement that will allow the cable company to transmit WNYT’s digital signal to all of its customers. The agreement comes on the eve of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens, and will allow properly equipped Time Warner customers to receive a special High-Definition feed of NBC’s Olympic coverage.
“We are pleased to add WNYT HD to our High Definition lineup,” said Stephen Pagano, President of Time Warner Cable’s Albany division. “We continue to expand our HD product, and beginning Friday, August 13th, we will be providing customers with a unique opportunity to experience this summer’s Olympic Games with high definition clarity.”
WNYT’s Vice President and General Manager, Steve Baboulis, added, “Our television station has been broadcasting a digital, high definition signal since mid-October, and Capital Region viewers have been able to receive the signal through the air since then. This agreement with Time Warner greatly expands the number of people in our viewing area who will now experience the state-of-the-art picture and sound that a high definition broadcast provides. We are pleased with this Time Warner agreement, and we hope this can serve as a model for agreements with other cable firms serving the Capital Region.”
WNYT HD can be seen on Channel 1813 by Time Warner customers with a high definition television set and HD tuner. Time Warner customers still can view WNYT’s standard analog broadcast on Time Warner Channel 13. A digital version of WNYT’s standard analog signal, WNYT-2, can be seen on Time Warner Channel 1993.
Baboulis added that NBC and WNYT are providing more HD programming than ever before. “As viewer demand increases, NBC has listened. In the coming television season, much of our prime time lineup will be broadcast in High-Definition. This should spur viewer demand even more, and move us to the day when virtually everything we air is in High-Definition. I expect this to happen before the end of the decade.”
WNYT-TV is now in its fiftieth year of serving the Capital Region of New York State. It is the market’s top-rated, award-winning source for news and information. WNYT-TV is the Capital Region’s NBC affiliate, and the exclusive home of viewer favorites such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil and Entertainment Tonight. WNYT-TV is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Time Warner Cable’s Albany Division operates one of the most sophisticated cable systems in the nation and is home to New York’s first two-way digital network. The system provides high-speed online access for residential customers, schools and businesses; digital cable with 240 cable channels, including on-demand services, interactive programming guides, Digital Phone service, exclusive 24-hour local news and popular, award-winning, locally produced programming. The division serves more than 320,000 customers in and around Albany, Troy, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Glens Falls, Schenectady, Amsterdam and Gloversville/Johnstown, NY, and Pittsfield and Athol, MA. Time Warner Cable owns and manages the most technologically advanced, best-clustered cable television operations in 27 states with more than 90 percent of its 10.9 million customers in systems of 100,000 subscribers or more. It is a division of Time Warner Inc.
High Definition Olympics Coverage to Air on Cable System
Albany, NY, August 12,2004-WNYT-TV and Time Warner Cable of Albany announced today an agreement that will allow the cable company to transmit WNYT’s digital signal to all of its customers. The agreement comes on the eve of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens, and will allow properly equipped Time Warner customers to receive a special High-Definition feed of NBC’s Olympic coverage.
“We are pleased to add WNYT HD to our High Definition lineup,” said Stephen Pagano, President of Time Warner Cable’s Albany division. “We continue to expand our HD product, and beginning Friday, August 13th, we will be providing customers with a unique opportunity to experience this summer’s Olympic Games with high definition clarity.”
WNYT’s Vice President and General Manager, Steve Baboulis, added, “Our television station has been broadcasting a digital, high definition signal since mid-October, and Capital Region viewers have been able to receive the signal through the air since then. This agreement with Time Warner greatly expands the number of people in our viewing area who will now experience the state-of-the-art picture and sound that a high definition broadcast provides. We are pleased with this Time Warner agreement, and we hope this can serve as a model for agreements with other cable firms serving the Capital Region.”
WNYT HD can be seen on Channel 1813 by Time Warner customers with a high definition television set and HD tuner. Time Warner customers still can view WNYT’s standard analog broadcast on Time Warner Channel 13. A digital version of WNYT’s standard analog signal, WNYT-2, can be seen on Time Warner Channel 1993.
Baboulis added that NBC and WNYT are providing more HD programming than ever before. “As viewer demand increases, NBC has listened. In the coming television season, much of our prime time lineup will be broadcast in High-Definition. This should spur viewer demand even more, and move us to the day when virtually everything we air is in High-Definition. I expect this to happen before the end of the decade.”
WNYT-TV is now in its fiftieth year of serving the Capital Region of New York State. It is the market’s top-rated, award-winning source for news and information. WNYT-TV is the Capital Region’s NBC affiliate, and the exclusive home of viewer favorites such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil and Entertainment Tonight. WNYT-TV is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Time Warner Cable’s Albany Division operates one of the most sophisticated cable systems in the nation and is home to New York’s first two-way digital network. The system provides high-speed online access for residential customers, schools and businesses; digital cable with 240 cable channels, including on-demand services, interactive programming guides, Digital Phone service, exclusive 24-hour local news and popular, award-winning, locally produced programming. The division serves more than 320,000 customers in and around Albany, Troy, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Glens Falls, Schenectady, Amsterdam and Gloversville/Johnstown, NY, and Pittsfield and Athol, MA. Time Warner Cable owns and manages the most technologically advanced, best-clustered cable television operations in 27 states with more than 90 percent of its 10.9 million customers in systems of 100,000 subscribers or more. It is a division of Time Warner Inc.
