Cleveland becomes first US city with three HD news channels
By Darren Murph 
posted January 29th 2007 7:30AM
posted January 29th 2007 7:30AM
While New York may have claimed fame for being the first city to snatch an HD news broadcast and beam IPTV content OTA and over cable, it looks like Cleveland, Ohio now has its own boasting to do, as it becomes the first American city to tout three local HD news channels. One particular channel, NewsChannel5, also provides exclusive HD weather and offers up "more than 12 hours of HD programming each day." The station commented that its HD weather capabilities now open up new views of on-scene reports, wider views of radar screens, and can simply keep viewers safer as they see more of what's going on around them. So as you lucky Clevelanders are waking up this morning, just know that you've got more choices than anyone else when it comes to catching the news tonight in crisp HD.
Bigger screens to watch our lake-effect snow storms. Oh joy.
cleveland?!
Cleveland Rocks. :).
To bad its nowhere near me. I get all Washington DC and Baltimore HD channels. There is only one with local news and weather in HD. There are rumors of a second one in the near future. 3 would be nice.
Hmm... So does this mean that everyone else only has two? I know that where I live (Metro-Detroit) we have an ABC affiliate and NBC affiliate that broadcast their news in HD. They both also feature a sub-channel that always has the latest local weather information.
What I haven't really seen on these sub-channels are HD-quality and widescreen radar and weather *sigh* information. To me, it simply looks like the stations are stretching a 4:3 image to fill a 16:9 screen.
They've been promoting that stuff on NewsChannel5 for some time now. The meteorologist is always like "if you're watching this in high-def, you can see this city, over here in wisconsin." Too bad I don't have an hdtv yet though. :'( nbc, abc, and fox news affiliates are the 3 that are HD in the area. sadly, cbs's "action news" isn't (no, not really....i can't stand watching it)!
Surprising being that Cleveland has the highest homeless rate in the U.S. I guess all the bums on the street can watch the news in HD now...
"Surprising being that Cleveland has the highest homeless rate in the U.S. I guess all the bums on the street can watch the news in HD now..."
Hey, don't forget that we're the poorest city as well!! All the people living in the shacks with their HDTVs can watch too!
"Surprising being that Cleveland has the highest homeless rate in the U.S. I guess all the bums on the street can watch the news in HD now..."
Where'd you get your facts? Ohio isnt even in the top 5 in homeless. Jackass.
Cleveland, however poor, is not the leader in this area. Los Angeles is.
California, Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington State and Washington, DC, have a higher rate of homeless people, both chronic and non-chronic in nature, than Ohio.
If your going to spew it out, check your facts first.
I'm in Cleveland and I just don't see the difference. Maybe because I am tuning in to catch up on the news and weather then tuning to something else...not exactly looking for that "sharp definition" in my news cast.