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WIAA basketball tournament may be in HD this year

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This year's WIAA state basketball tournament will be shot in high-definition for the first time, but it still remains to be seen whether the Green Bay market will see it in all its HD glory.

TelevisionBroadcast.com reports that Madison ABC-affiliate WKOW will cover the boys tournament on March 18-20 and the girls tournament from March 25-27 in high-def, broadcasting it to a statewide network of affiliates.

Time Warner Cable dunks free preview of CBS College Sports for March Madness

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Time Warner Cable customers with digital cable boxes will get some extra basketball coverage during March Madness, whether or not they subscribe to the digital sports tier.

Time Warner trading Style for Speed, adding Hallmark and Fox Soccer in HD

Fox Soccer Channel HD

Time Warner Cable customers may soon be trading Style for Speed.  The channels, that is.

As we previously reported, the Style channel will be exiting the standard cable lineup for digital variety on March 16th.  But later in the month on March 29th, the Speed channel will be exiting the digital variety and digital sports packages, and will become "available to all Standard customers with digital equipment," according to Time Warner Cable's website.

AT&T U-Verse nets CBS College Sports channels

CBS College Sports Network
Talk about good timing.  If this hadn't happened, there would have been a whole other kind of March Madness amongst AT&T U-Verse sports fans.

AT&T announced this week the launch of CBS College Sports in both SD and high-definition to its U-Verse lineup.  They can be found on channels 643 and 1643, respectively.  The channel is part of U-Verse's sports package, which costs an additional $10 per month, or is included in the U450 programming package.

Brewers sporting 100% high-definition schedule on FSN this season

FS Wisconsin HD
If you're a die-hard Brewers fan and have been waiting to upgrade that old-school TV, this may be your year.

FSN Wisconsin announced that all 136 Milwaukee Brewers games it produces this season will be in high-definition, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.  This is the first season since FSN started HD broadcasts in 2006 that will feature high-def games all season.  It showed 96 last year.
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Wisconsin AB-721 Introduced

The "Save our PEGs Bill" has been introduced in Madison. There is a hearing scheduled for this Wednesday, 2/24, in the afternoon during the meeting of the Committee on Urban and Local Affairs at the state capitol. It will probably be televised on Wisconsin Eye.

Main provisions of AB-721 include: (from Save Access TV website)

Time Warner finally adds Viacom HD channels to Northeast Wisconsin lineup

Comedy Central HD
If you're anything like me, you teared up a little seeing The Colbert Report in glorious HD for the first time last night.

Time Warner Cable's Northeast Wisconsin division finally lit up the long-promised Viacom HD channels yesterday.  
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