ABC Monday Night Football back in HDTV next year

[HTguy]

I went to a CEA sponsered HDTV roundtable yesterday consisting of HDTV manucfaturers, retailers & broadcasters.

One new tidbit on programming that came out is that Monday Night Football will be available in HDTV again for the (next) 2003 season.

Also, the ESPN HDTV channel that launches in April will initially be HDTV for "selected" games but at a later date (6 months?) the studio will go HDTV, too.

[DP1]

Yes there was a "big" press release on this about a month ago. Dont forget too that before MNF next season, ABC will be showing the upcoming Super Bowl, NHL Stanley Cup Finals and the NBA Finals in HD too.

In regards to ESPN I believe it said the studio stuff was slated for 2004.

[GeorgeF]

Woooohooooo, that is good news.

I've been looking at HDTV's, I'm just not sure as of yet. I would like to see just a little bit more programming in HDTV before I bought one of these sets.

[mgideon]

Good for all of you in large DMA areas. I don't even HAVE an ABC station. I wonder if Dish will ever broadcast ABC in HighDeff like they to CBS.