Hengst wrote:
Just out of curiosity, where did you hear that the Jazz game was going to be in HD? (that'd be great if the got HD up and going in time for the playoffs, but I haven't heard anything about it until you mentioned it just barely)
I was reminded of tonight's broadcast while listening to A-Game this afternoon.
The HD is not up and running non-stop (as far as I understand it). KJZZ just recently got back the bandwidth they had leased out to USDTV. As long as USDTV had possession of that KJZZ bandwidth, KJZZ did not have enough room to broadcast HD over the air. However, with the bankruptcy and eventual dissolution of USDTV, KJZZ now has that bandwidth back, and they are ramping up for HD broadcasts. They have the equipment--they have broadcast a number of Jazz game from Energy Solutions Arena for FSN in HD using in-house equipment. They have access to HD broadcast antennae via the tower they collectively built along with the other local stations. They just couldn't use their own bandwidth until everything was ironed out legally from USDTV's dissolution last year.
Tonight's game will be the second Jazz game broadcast locally in HD--the loss to the Mavericks last week was the first, but I was out of town and unable to capitalize. Supposedly they are trying to iron out all the kinks with a few games now before the playoffs, but I don't know how many playoff games are going to be aired on KJZZ.
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