"CBS not offering local games as constants in High Definition"

[DankeShane]

The Washington, DC CBS affiliate showed the entire Georgetown game in standard definition. I went to their website with their tournament coverage and they have the following statement:

"CBS is not offering our local games as constants in High Definition. To contact their audience services department send e-mail to audsvcs@cbs.com."

http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_artic...?storyid=56642

Is anyone else dealing with this? Also, that game has ended and now the GW game is in crap-tastic SD.

[DukeinDC]

My DC channel 212 on comcast just came back from commercial with the GW game in HD (even though the Web site says local games would be in SD)

[DankeShane]

Same here (but on DirecTV) but I think it's because the GW game is the only one on right now. When the "local constant" game is one of multiple simultaneous games, that's when we get screwed.

[SharkD]

Here in the Triangle, WRAL is broadcasting OTA only in SD so that it can split it's digital bandwidth across 4 channels -- to cover all the games simultaneously.

Cable customers, however, get the games from WRAL in HD on channels 255 and 254.

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FWIW, WUSA is a sucky broadcaster -- especially when it comes to sports, and Comcast is the best of the worst as far as DC-area cable providers. (I've suffered through District Cablevision, Starpower/RCN and Comcast.)

[hurleyfor3]

see also: cbs sucks