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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 15, 2008 15:32:36 GMT -5
Kicking off January 1st, and available on my system....I dont know if its a freebie, or I'll get it with my $4.99 "sports package" which gets me the NHL Network, and 3 college sports channels.
Overall:
MLB Network will launch on January 1, 2009 in approximately 50 million homes as the largest network debut in cable history
MLB Network will air live games, original programming, highlights, classic games, and coverage of baseball events
The MLB Network studio is located at 40 Hartz Way, Suite 10, Secaucus NJ, 07094
Named to honor Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth, "Studio 3" and "Studio 42" total 15,200 square feet, including 9,600 square feet for Studio 42 alone.
Every video display in both studios will be fully native HD, as will all video produced at the studios.
Studio 3:
Named to honor Babe Ruth, Studio 3 will be the primary home of the live nightly studio show, MLB Tonight.
Measuring 5,600 square feet, Studio 3 features 62 video displays, including a 30x7-foot rear projection screen, 108" and 103" monitors, as well as a Perceptive Pixel touch screen display, which will allow MLB Network personalities to interact with and change graphics and images on-screen.
The studio will feature a desk that can rotate to various stations and includes six distinct broadcast areas, including a balcony, stat center, and interview area.
The ceiling is ringed by backlit logos of all 30 MLB teams and the entire studio features lighting that can be altered to give it the feel of day or night.
Studio 42:
Named to honor Jackie Robinson, Studio 42 measures 9,600 square feet, and will be used as a demonstration center by MLB Network's on-air talent.
Studio 42 is designed to be a replica baseball field, featuring a half-scale infield made of field turf measuring 45 feet from base to base and a pitcher's mound 30 feet from home plate that can be moved back for more realistic demonstrations.
The studio also features a replica outfield wall, complete with padding, brick designs, three different seating areas that can hold up to 173 people, and an out-of-town scoreboard modeled after the scoreboard at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, which will be updated in real-time.
Executives and On-Air Talent:
President and CEO: Tony Petitti
Studio Host: Matt Vasgersian
Analysts: Al Leiter, Joe Magrane, Harold Reynolds
Reporters: Trenni Kusnierek, Hazel Mae
Programming:
MLB Network will launch on January 1, 2009 at 6:00pm EST with the debut episode of Hot Stove, followed by the original broadcast of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series
MLB Network will air 26 live games throughout the season
MLB Tonight is the live, nightly studio show that will be the signature program of the new network
The show will air live beginning at 6:00 p.m. Eastern until the final MLB game of the night ends between Monday and Saturday
The show will feature live look-ins of games in progress, updates, highlights, reporting and analysis.
Hot Stove is the live, nightly off-season studio show and will feature news, reports, and analysis of the moves clubs are making and planning in preparation for the upcoming season
The show will air during the off-season at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Monday through Friday
Prime 9 is the countdown program which will air throughout each week. Each program will breakdown the all-time top nine examples of its subject matter
Distribution:
MLB Network will launch in approximately 50 million homes as the largest network debut in cable history, exceeding any other cable television launch by approximately 20 million
MLB Network will be broadly distributed across 43 cable and satellite systems on expanded digital basic cable or the equivalent
MLB Network will be available on major systems including Comcast, Cox, Direct TV, Time Warner, Charter, Cablevision and Verizon FiOS
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Post by Chris on Dec 15, 2008 15:35:31 GMT -5
Looks good!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 15, 2008 15:37:51 GMT -5
Like I dont have enough tube to watch!
Right now my late-night background for my compy use, or reading, is the NHL Network. But when hockey is out of season, this will fit the bill. When hockey is out of season and I dont have music on, I would put on Fox News. Im happy about this network for other reasons, though, including the Classic games, personalities, and wall to wall coverage.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 23, 2008 19:25:05 GMT -5
Holy crap - one of the razzmatazzes of this is a LIVE studio show every night, Monday - Saturday, starting at 6PM and running till the last game of the night ends. It will include live look-ins, updates, analysis, highlights.....wow. NHL network has something similar, "NHL ON THE FLY" but it runs hour blocks and repeats here and there over the night. They dont run live throughout.
Wow, just wow. Baseball overload, here we come!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 26, 2008 9:08:45 GMT -5
Prime 9 to break down baseball's best
New show set to debut Jan. 5 on MLB Network
In exactly one week, more than 50 million cable and satellite subscribers will be able to celebrate the launch of MLB Network and begin enjoying the countless hours of original programming that it will provide.
One of those original programs, Prime 9, will help provoke and fuel many of the age-old arguments that fans have about the great game of baseball. This half-hour show will analyze the top nine all-time in a variety of areas in baseball history, such as players at different positions, great comebacks and unbreakable records.
Prime 9 will debut on Jan. 5, at 8 p.m. ET with an episode featuring the game's all-time greatest center fielders. Another episode, featuring all-time home runs, will immediately follow.
These shows will rank the game's best center fielders -- Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr. -- and give you a chance to argue whether Joe Carter's walk-off homer in the 1993 World Series was more memorable than the one Bill Mazeroski hit to end the '60 Fall Classic.
To help count down the official launch on Jan. 1, MLB Network is providing a new piece of news on a daily basis. This information about Prime 9 was Thursday's revelation and Friday will bring another nugget of information.
This countdown process began on Tuesday with the revelation that Barry Larkin was joining the Network. Wednesday, it was learned that every Major League stadium will include "ballpark cameras" that can be controlled by MLB Network employees in Secaucus, N.J.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 29, 2008 13:38:10 GMT -5
Just found out that this channel is supposed to be part of the baseball package. I thought it would be some sort of pay package, like the in season games thing.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 29, 2008 14:24:43 GMT -5
And its sad that if it was, even at something low like $4.99 a month, you would not even consider it. No real knock, Balls, we get it - but you are a Yankee fan and not really a baseball fan. The rest of us are Yankee fans who happen to be baseball fans.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 29, 2008 14:31:07 GMT -5
Well, coming from you, someone who is not a Yankee fan, I get it. You would gladly shell out money for anything that is as anti-Yankee as possible. The first month alone seems to be a Red Sox lovefest, so you'll be very happy with the programming.
And no channel on cable is worth paying extra for.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 29, 2008 14:42:01 GMT -5
Sorry, but for just about everyone on this board a BASEBALL channel would be.
But again, I could not in a million years imagine the thought of YOU watching baseball highlights at 11PM one night, like we do. I cant imagine you reading a book about Roberto Clemente, or Ty Cobb. You are just not a fan of baseball, you are a fan of the Yankees and other fans of the Yankees. You are like, a jocksniffer for a baseball team, and not a fan of the game they play.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 29, 2008 14:55:14 GMT -5
No channel is worth that. I mean, I realize for someone like you, a channel that puts the Red Sox, Mets and Dodgers on a pedastal is ideal, but games from years past are not worth shelling out more dough for. Why would I read a book on Clemente? I got the spoiler. He died at the end.
As for Cobb, I saw the movie. Good enough for me.
As someone who is not a Yankee fan, I can see the appeal for you. Maybe you can beat off to a tribute to Ted Williams' ear cleaning habits, but if it's not free, it's not worth it.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 29, 2008 15:01:25 GMT -5
You're a retard. The only baseball game you ever watched that did not have the Yankees in it involved the Bad News Bears.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 29, 2008 15:08:53 GMT -5
And in that movie, you rooted against the Yankees too.
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Post by Furious D on Dec 29, 2008 15:51:05 GMT -5
Where does it say that this chanel will cost extra? From what I heard, it will be part of the standard packages.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 29, 2008 16:33:26 GMT -5
No, he finally woke up and realized it would NOT cost extra, which is the only reason he is talking about it. If it cost $4.99, or even $1.99, he would have passed completely. Now he will only watch it when Yankees stuff is on there.
Everyone in the US who has cable will have this channel at no extra charge.
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Post by Furious D on Dec 29, 2008 20:41:40 GMT -5
To each his own. As for me, I'm psyched about the channel.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 30, 2008 6:58:14 GMT -5
It's true. No single channel is worth paying extra to watch, especially when the programming is either going to be repetitive or worse, a constant tribute to the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, and LA Dodgers.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 30, 2008 9:01:11 GMT -5
Why would I read a book on Clemente? I got the spoiler. He died at the end.
I guess they stole the ending from that Lou Gehrig book, huh.
It's true. No single channel is worth paying extra to watch, especially when the programming is either going to be repetitive or worse, a constant tribute to the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, and LA Dodgers.
Yeah....a 10 hour LIVE highlight and analysis show, nightly during the baseball season, is sure to follow that credo. And the fact that the first program they are showing after a Hot Stove special - surely be Yankee full - is the Larson perfect game.....yeah, got ya!
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 30, 2008 9:15:19 GMT -5
Point taken about Lou Gehrig. Clemente stole Gehrig's gimmick.
Like I really need a 10 hour live highlight show. And ONE game broadcast on ONE day, is hardly changing the fact that the first MONTH of the channel is virtually a Red Sox/Mets/Dodgers lovefest.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Dec 30, 2008 10:06:31 GMT -5
you are almost as grumpy as Tom.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 30, 2008 23:27:39 GMT -5
How am I grumpy? Ive been shitting rainbows since I heard about the MLB Network.
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Post by Chris on Dec 30, 2008 23:41:37 GMT -5
I'm guessing, and I guess you DirecTV subscribers look into this, that the ONLY way to get this channel is not going to be via the Major League Extra Innings package at the $168.00.
That would pretty much cut off folks, like in market fans, who don't need the package.
Now, I order the baseball package (for the games) AND I order the Regional Sports Package (for YES and NESN) which includes all regional sports channels from around the country.
I never order the NBA package, but I do get the NBA channel, and I can only assume it's because of my regional sports package at a pricetag of $11.99/month.
I don't think that's an unreasonable cost. However, I would not order Extra Innings at $168.00 if I were an in market fan.
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Post by Chris on Dec 30, 2008 23:50:49 GMT -5
"You're a retard. The only baseball game you ever watched that did not have the Yankees in it involved the Bad News Bears."
There must have been a softball scene or two in Happy Days or Mork & Mindy or some shit like that.
No single channel worth paying extra for? Speak for yourself, you spoiled in-market fan. I pay the aforementioned $11.99 pretty much strictly for the YES Channel...and NESN is a nice bonus.
Why would you read a book about Clemente? Yeah, why would you unless you actually cared about this history of the game that you love 1/30th of? You sound like the little ghetto kids my Dad teaches how complain about Algebra, "Why do I need to learn this?"
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Post by ajfreakz on Dec 31, 2008 17:34:03 GMT -5
for the last 6months i've had at&t uverse.. since i work for at&t it kinda makes ..& a 25% off my bill helps too
but mlbnetwork is still in the dark on uverse and i don't knwo when it will be aval.
i'm so fucking pissed.. esp. since i could miss some extra spring training,wbc and regular season games... but i'm hopefully that by spring training they will pick it up..
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 31, 2008 17:36:24 GMT -5
Yeah, nice you mentioned the WBC, I just heard this week about how many of those games they are going to offer. Im stoked for some of that ball. I noticed this first week of programming has a lot of the same shows on spin, over and over, but its sensible, you wont be on this 24 hours a day.
But man, there are some treasure troves on there.....Freakz, get on it. You're a good baseball man!
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Post by ajfreakz on Dec 31, 2008 17:41:56 GMT -5
i just hope once i get it ..it won't be like YES who just shows the same crappy stuff over & over.
mlbnet will def compete w/ espn during the season with the night shows..
and i figure in a few years once the espn,fox and tbs contracts are up mlbnetwork will work its way in to over take them all.. even more so than nba tv,nhl network and nfl network can with their games
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 31, 2008 17:44:33 GMT -5
You're comparing Roberto Clemente to algebra? Holy crap. Good player. 3000 hits. HOFer. Charitable. Good guy. Killed in plane crash. Done.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 31, 2008 17:48:43 GMT -5
"Good" player? LOL!
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Post by Chris on Dec 31, 2008 17:50:27 GMT -5
Considering the amount of non-Yankee baseball you watch, Balls, the amount of Clemente trivia you just dispensed is quite impressive.
Kudos.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 31, 2008 18:05:32 GMT -5
Don't tell anyone.
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Post by Chris on Dec 31, 2008 18:18:33 GMT -5
Tom: "Balls, what do you know about Ted Williams?"
Balls: "Eh, he hit for average."
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