BHN will launch Versus/Golf HD on channel 694

[Bschneider]

BHN will launch Versus/Golf HD on channel 694 *** Versus/Golf HD ***

Tonight (12 Apr, at approximately at 7pm), BHN will launch a new HD channel on channel 694 - available to all HD set tops. (i.e. not in the HD Pak).

*** Versus/Golf HD ***

The channel will be a combination of Versus (formerly Outdoor Life Network) in HD from 7pm to 12 noon, and then The Golf Channel in HD from 12 noon to 7pm.

This additional HD service is available to all HD Set tops at no additional cost.

To kick off the launch at 7pm this evening- Versus will feature the NHL Playoff game of the Calgary Flames vs Red Wings at Detroit

Guide data will be populated for this service tomorrow.

This service is not currently on Verizon, Knology, Dish or DirecTV.

http://www.tampahdtv.com/tpahd-vb/showthread.php?t=21300

[bdraw]

Interesting, for whatever reason I am not excited.
I hate the fact that I am not excited about the new HD channels that get added.

I think it is because I have been disappointed with A&E HD and MHD. Sure ESPN2HD is great during college football season this time of year there isn't much on for me.

Is it just me? Why should I be excited about this channel?

[FTBoomerIII]

I agree Ben. I'm really not impressed either. These channels have very little HD content and most of the time it's old repeats of stuff I didn't watch when it was new.

I see that FIOS added Food HD today. I'd like to see that and Starz. Not much else presenting new HD content anyway.

Interesting, for whatever reason I am not excited.
I hate the fact that I am not excited about the new HD channels that get added.

I think it is because I have been disappointed with A&E HD and MHD. Sure ESPN2HD is great during college football season this time of year there isn't much on for me.

Is it just me? Why should I be excited about this channel?

[Kendo]

I'll give it a chance, but I'm not exactly thrilled... I’m not a golf enthusiast, but I do respect those of you who are. Versus might have some merit, kind of hard to tell because my guide still doesn’t list any programming on 694 for either station. Further, Versus was supposed to be on from 7PM to Noon, yet tonight at 7:50 the Golf Channel is still broadcasting (and not in HD).

Why doesn’t this surprise me, up here in Pasco County we still share CSpan2 with VH1, when Pinellas and Hillsborough don’t. You also can’t see what’s on VH1 or set anything up to record because it never shows VH1 on the channel guide!

Wow, the Golf Channel scores a win over the NFL Network. Who’d ever think…?

[bdraw]

FT,
While neither of FIOS's new channel interest me either, my wife would love 2 out of 3 and annoy me less when she watched them. I can only assume that HGTV would be less annoying in HD than it is in SD. ;)