DISH offers to discuss rollout of PBS HD locals

That didn't take long. Luckily, the old adage about "pens" and "swords" held true, and Big Bird's mighty talons did not come into play -- DISH network has agreed to discuss carriage of PBS HD programming. Both sides sound like they're open to negotiation, and congresswoman Diana DeGette has even offered use of her Washington office as a meeting location. We suspect DISH will try to accommodate PBS with its proposed 15/30/60/100-percent rollout of HD locals over a four year period. Okay, so PBS is a little thin on HD material; we always like to see HD producers and broadcasters working together to bring out more programming.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 7th 2008 3:31AM]

Wow, if I had the money I would buy a nice Kuro plasma for later resale. I bet these will go for ridiculous sums on eBay in the next year.

[BenD Posted Mar 7th 2008 8:01AM]

Actually PBS has alot of HD programming these days.

All its specials like Ken Burn's "The War", the nightly news show, Frontline, Nova, Nature, and even Antique Roadshow.

[calvin8714 Posted Mar 7th 2008 8:30AM]

add to that list soundstage, austin city limits, american masters, independent lens (host parts are in hd, but sometimes its content isn't), mystery (occassionally), secrets of the dead, this old house, victory garden, wired science.

some children's programming is also available in hd, but it depends on the stations to broadcast them at the time they air from the national pbs hd feed, unless the station can record it in hd and play it later in hd.
it's a big world, jakers!, teletubbies, dragonfly tv. yea, i'm a geek, i worked in master control at a tv station during college.