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Release Date	Release Title
December 19, 2002	HDNet Celebrates The Holiday Week With 22 Hours Of All-New HDTV Programming From music concerts, news reports and talk shows to tennis, live NHL and college basketball, HDNet has something for everyone, all in spectacular 1080i HDTV.
December 18, 2002	HDNet Licenses Its First-Ever Feature Film Package In Deal With Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution Under the terms of the agreement, WBDCD will provide HDNet with some 30 features films each month, which have been converted to high-definition format for broadcast on HDNet via satellite and cable distribution.
December 11, 2002	HDNet Announces Acquisition Of Certain HDTV Television Series From Paramount Domestic Television Deal includes conversion of “Hogan’s Heroes” for HDTV Broadcast
December 10, 2002	Santa Clara University Athletics Forms Relationship With HDNet to Televise 36th Annual Cable Car Classic National HDTV Network to provide live coverage of all four college basketball tournament games
November 12, 2002	UPN21's "Xtreme Motion" Premieres On HDNet In its second season, the highly energized show focuses on taking all types of sports, including skateboarding, car racing, and snowboarding to their maximum level.
November 7, 2002	HDNet Premieres "Sights And Sounds" HDTV Broadcast During College Football Game Saturday Nov. 9 “Sights and Sounds” Combines the Best of Real Stadium Effects and Home Viewer Experience
October 30, 2002	HDNet Named “BEST HDTV CHANNEL” Greg Gibson of NextGenElectronics has viewed all HDTV channels, and has named HDNet as the “Best HDTV Channel” for the year 2002.
October 23, 2002	NHL & HDNet Announce 2002-03 HDTV Schedule Second Season of NHL in HD Live Coverage Features 65 Games Beginning Oct. 27
October 10, 2002	HDNet And Superkarts! USA To Broadcast Supernationals Race Live In High-Definition Television HDNet and Superkarts! USA (SKUSA) announced they are teaming to deliver the first-ever live high-definition television (HDTV) broadcast of the world’s largest shifter kart race, the 6th annual SKUSA SuperNationals.
September 4, 2002	HDNet To Provide Live High Definition TV Coverage Of September 11th Commemoration At Ground Zero Correspondent Simon Marks will host the special HD coverage as Americans gather to observe, reflect, and honor the memory of those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001.
August 13, 2002	HDNet And The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer Report From India And Pakistan In Their Second HDTV Co-Production HDNet premieres a new World Report covering the growing conflict between India and Pakistan.
July 10, 2002	HDNet to Broadcast 2002 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships HDNet, the only national television network to broadcast entirely in high-definition format, will provide live coverage of the 2002 Rhythmic World Championships, Sunday, July 14, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. EST.
July 9, 2002	HDNet And CART To Broadcast First-Ever Auto Racing Event In High-Definition Format At This Weekend's Marconi Grand Prix Of Cleveland HDNet and CART announced they are teaming to deliver the first-ever high definition television broadcast of live auto racing action with this weekend's qualifying sessions for the Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland Presented by U.S. Bank, which is Round Nine of the CART FedEx Championship Series.
July 1, 2002	KTVU Fox 2 & HDNet To Broadcast City Of San Francisco Fourth Of July Waterfront Celebration Live In High Definition Television This large annual civic event will be shown on television in HDTV format for the first time.
June 24, 2002	The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer And HDNet Join In International Reporting In First Co-Production, NewsHour Correspondent Jeffrey Kaye Reports on the Mexican Drug War
May 22, 2002	HDNet And Arena Football League Announce 2002 Schedule Of Live Game Broadcasts In High Definition TV AFL action on HDNet’s channel 199 on DIRECTV begins on June 1 when the Los Angeles Avengers host the Dallas Desperados at 10:30 p.m. ET.
April 29, 2002	NBC & HDNet To Broadcast First-Ever Live High Definition Coverage Of Visa Triple Crown Races HDTV broadcasts – beginning with Saturday’s Kentucky Derby – to be seen on NBC’s DTV affiliates & HDNet’s Ch. 199 on DIRECTV
April, 11, 2002	HDNet Sweeps Weekly HDTV Top Ten List For the second time this year, HDNet has swept the weekly “HDTV Top Ten” list, as chosen by readers of HDTV Magazine.
April, 8, 2002	HDNet World Report Offers First High Definition News Coverage From The Middle East Conflict Peter Arnett Reports from Ramallah, Jerusalem and Bethlehem
March 27, 2002	HDNet And Major League Baseball Announce Full Season Of High Definition Broadcasts 2002 Season on HDNet Features 80 Major League Baseball Games
March 5, 2002	HDNet Broadcasts 2002 International CES In High-Definition Highlights of World's Premier Consumer Technology Showcase To Be Aired 100 Times Over The Next 100 Days
February 4, 2002	NBC and HDNet release HDTV schedule of Winter Olympics Coverage Schedule lists events from the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games that will be broadcast in high-definition television (HDTV) on NBC's DTV affiliates and HDNet (channel 199 on DIRECTV).
January 23, 2002	HDNet and NBC Present "NBA on NBC" in HDTV with Feb. 3rd Lakers - Mavericks Game HDTV viewers can watch the game on NBC's digital TV affiliates and on HDNet's channel 199 on DIRECTV.
January 16, 2002	HDNet to Expand Hi-def Broadcast Programming Through Agreement with Cinemuse World's only all high definition network will broadcast more than two dozen programs from CineMuse library.
January 10, 2002	Peter Arnett to Report from Afghanistan for Broadcast News Networks and HDNet in High Definition Television Historic HDTV Content to be Broadcast on HDNetÕs DIRECTV Channel 199
January 7, 2002	Ivy League Basketball Television Package Announced Ivy League Basketball Network Package will bring seven men's and women's games to HDNet.