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Post by Skaggs on Mar 20, 2007 17:14:33 GMT -5
All of the 2007 Yankee games shown on YES Network will be in HD. See this post for more info. However, the Yankees sell a 21 game package to a "local" TV outlet so even those without cable or satellite can still catch a few Yankee games. This 21 game package is not shown on YES and typically consists of Tuesday and Friday games shown locally on WXXA, channel 23. I'm disappointed when I go to watch the Yankees on Tuesday or Friday and have to watch the game in SD. So, I asked WXXA Chief Engineer Sarge Cathrall if they have explored the possibility of showing the 21 games in HD, since YES is producing the games in HD. Sarge replied, "We are looking into it." You can view the entire Yankees and Mets TV schedule at the Albany TWC website. They have posted PDF files with the schedules. |
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Post by Skaggs on Apr 2, 2007 19:01:13 GMT -5
-----Original Message-----
From: Skaggs
Sent: Mon 4/2/2007 5:02 PM
To: CATHRALL, SARGE
Subject: RE: Yankees on WXXA in 2007
Sarge:
What's the latest?
Will the April 17th Yankee game on WXXA be shown in HD?
--Mark
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Post by Skaggs on Apr 2, 2007 19:16:34 GMT -5
List of the 21 Non-HD Yankee games on WXXA in 2007:
April 17, Tuesday, 7:05PM, Indians
April 26, Thursday, 7:05PM, Blue Jays
April 27, Friday, 7:05PM, Red Sox
May 4, Friday, 7:05PM, Mariners
May 22, Tuesday, 7:05PM, Red Sox
May 25, Friday, 7:05PM, Angels
June 8, Friday, 7:05PM, Pirates
June 12, Tuesday, 7:05PM, Diamondbacks
June 15, Friday, 7:05PM, Mets
June 19, Tuesday, 9:05PM, at Rockies
June 29, Friday, 7:05PM, Athletics
July 13, Friday, 7:10PM, at Devil Rays
July 20, Friday, 7:05PM, Devil Rays
July 27, Friday, 7:05PM, at Orioles
August 17, 7:05PM, Tigers
August 24, Friday, 7:05PM, at Tigers
August 28, Tuesday, 7:05PM, Red Sox
August 31, Friday, 7:05PM, Devil Rays
September 18, Tuesday, 7:05PM, Orioles
September 21, Friday, 7:05PM, Blue Jays
September 28, Friday, 7:05PM, at Orioles
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Post by MasterFX1 on Apr 13, 2007 15:06:27 GMT -5
WXXA will use digital channel to broadcast some Yankee games
The Business Review (Albany) - 3:17 PM EDT Friday, April 13, 2007
WXXA/Channel 23 is using its new digital channel to fill in its schedule of Yankees games.
The Albany, N.Y. Fox Broadcasting station has, in the past, been prevented from showing some games in its 21-game Yankees broadcast package because it was limited in how much Fox programming it could preempt.
Now if there is a conflict, the baseball game will air on VTV, the digital channel WXXA put on the air March 1. VTV is on Channel 23.2 on digital sets, and on digital cable channel 423. The first game to air on VTV will be April 17th, when the Yankees play the Cleveland Indians starting at 7:00pm.
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Post by Skaggs on Apr 26, 2007 19:42:35 GMT -5
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood because the Yankees have lost 5 in a row and are losing tonight's game 3-0, but the audio dropouts on TWC channel 423 for the Blue Jays game are ticking me off. Plus, the crappy 4:3 SD picture quality sucks.
About every 30 seconds, the audio goes out for 4 seconds or so.
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Post by Skaggs on Aug 28, 2007 19:16:09 GMT -5
I am so disappointed (again) that tonight's Yankees-Red Sox game is only available in SD on WXXA. It is such a letdown to watch the game with such poor picture quality and non-DD 5.1 sound. I'd almost rather watch the Mr. & Mrs. Smith re-run on HBO in HD.
Please WXXA, get the proper equipment so you can pass the HD picture on to us for the 2008 season.
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Post by bruces on Aug 29, 2007 12:57:00 GMT -5
What extra equipment should they need.
They already show the Saturday afternoon FOX baseball broadcasts in HD and YES certainly was producing it in HD.
It just appears that WXXA doesn't want to pay for both the SD and HD feeds. The idiotic MLB blackout rules need to change. If a local station only is showing the SD feed, it should not prevent you from watching the HD feed from another provider.
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Post by Skaggs on Aug 30, 2007 7:46:41 GMT -5
I'm not a broadcast engineer, but I'll take a guess that WXXA only has the equipment to pass the HD signal from FOX. WXXA would have to be able to receive the HD signal from YES via satellite and retransmit it to TWC and OTA. See WXXA Chief Engineer Sarge Cathrall's resonse a few posts above this one.
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Post by Skaggs on Oct 4, 2007 6:53:39 GMT -5
From: Mark
Sent: Thu 10/4/2007 7:12 AM
To: CATHRALL, SARGE
Subject: Yankees in HD in 2008?
Sarge:
Have you made any progress in obtaining the equipment necessary to show the Yankees games in HD in 2008?
If not, do you plan on working on this?
--Mark
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From: CATHRALL, SARGE
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:28 AM
To: albanyhdtv.com
Subject: RE: Yankees in HD in 2008?
It will be in the hands of the new owners sometime next month......I will keep u posted
Sarge
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Post by Skaggs on Jan 11, 2008 11:58:49 GMT -5
What extra equipment should they need? While discussing how WTEN intends to broadcast the HD versions of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, WTEN Chief Engineer Skeeter Lansing explained the difference between locally broadcasting a live HD program like a Yankee game and a recorded (syndicated) HD program like Wheel or Jeopardy. |
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