That's according to an article by Multichannel News.
DIRECTV has said it will offer 100 national HDTV channels by year's end. Multichannel News reports that DIRECTV CFO Michael Palkovic says the satcaster has 70 high-def channels under contract.
The company has announced deals with several HD channels yet-to-be launched, including CNN, USA Network, Sci-Fi Channel, the Cartoon Network and The Weather Channel.
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But Palkovic added that the 100-channel lineup will include feeds from Sunday Ticket, MLB's Extra Innings and other sports packages. In 2008, DIRECTV is planning to show most (if not all) of the games available in pay packages in high-def.
Tom Brady's game could be considered a HD channel.
For example, Palkovic said the Sunday Ticket, which offers 13 different NFL games each week, would count as 13 HD channels.
“That’s the way you
would count that,” Palkovic told Multichannel News.
He said that about 70 or 80 channels would be 24/7,
year-round high-def channels.
Palkovic also discounted speculation that DIRECTV
would add the 15-channel high-def lineup from Voom.
“First of all, there are no Voom channels, there is
nothing like that that people would consider not
really quality channels,” Palkovic said. “We’re
talking USA, Sci Fi, some of the Turner networks,
The Weather Channel, mainstream programming that’s
been around for a long time that’s going to make the
leap to HD.”
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