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At least FOX has moved to full 16x9 (center extract safe).

I'm sure we'll be the first to mix promos in 5.1 as well...]]>Feb 8th 2007 7:55PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/Feb 8th 2007 10:42PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/Feb 9th 2007 1:18AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/Feb 9th 2007 7:17AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/Feb 9th 2007 9:15AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/Feb 9th 2007 8:47AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/Feb 9th 2007 9:08AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/A national news show like "NBC Nightly News" is only on for 30 mins a day. Local news stations have morning news 5am-7am (sometimes longer) midday 12-1, and evening 5-6 and nightly news 11-11:30.

This means they produce about 4 hours of programming per day. So their investment goes much further since they produce 8 times as many hours of content.]]>Feb 9th 2007 9:18AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/Feb 9th 2007 10:46AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/In addition to local affiliates broadcasting more hours per day, you should also consider that network news typically gets footage from news bureaus from all over the world, which may or may not be shooting in HD. So I think it's actually a much costlier transition to HD for the networks, not the affiliates.

With the affiliates, chances are that most of their content is homegrown, and so they can deliver a full HD broadcast.]]>Feb 9th 2007 1:41PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/08/nbc-nightly-news-to-go-hd-in-march/Feb 9th 2007 5:23PM