Rogers Cable announced today that it has added 3 new HD channels to its Super Sports Pak to provide its HD customers with more HD sports content, with the addition of NCAA games in High Definition, as well as HD NHL games to its NHL Centre Ice and Super Sports Pak offering.

Starting today, Rogers Super Sports Pak customers will now enjoy more HD content with expanded coverage of NHL and NCAA programming. The game schedule below highlights some of the upcoming games that will be broadcast in HD.

Rogers now offers up to 31 HDTV channels with the widest selection of HD channels in Canada.

The Rogers Super Sports Pak is available for only $26.95 a month (4 month minimum commitment).

SCHEDULES:
NHL HD:

Sat-Dec-10-05 19:30 Colorado Pittsburgh
Sun-Dec-11-05 17:00 Phoenix Boston
Thu-Dec-15-05 20:00 Chicago Nashville
Sat-Dec-17-05 19:30 Detroit Tampa Bay
Thu-Dec-22-05 21:00 Minnesota Colorado
Thu-Dec-29-05 20:30 St. Louis Dallas
Sat-Dec-31-05 20:00 Los Angeles Dallas
Mon-Jan-02-06 13:00 Philadelphia Boston
Sat-Jan-07-06 19:00 Tampa Bay Boston
Tue-Jan-10-06 19:00 San Jose Boston
Thu-Jan-12-06 19:00 Los Angeles Boston
Mon-Jan-16-06 13:00 Anaheim Boston
Sat-Jan-21-06 19:00 NY Rangers Boston
Thu-Jan-26-06 19:00 Washington Boston
Sat-Jan-28-06 19:00 NY Islanders Boston
Sun-Feb-05-06 13:00 Carolina Boston
Thu-Feb-09-06 19:00 New Jersey Boston
Sat-Feb-11-06 19:00 Tampa Bay Boston
Thu-Mar-02-06 19:00 Atlanta Boston
Sat-Mar-04-06 19:00 Buffalo Boston
Sat-Mar-11-06 19:00 NY Islanders Boston
Sat-Mar-18-06 12:00 Carolina Boston
Sat-Mar-25-06 19:00 Buffalo Boston
Mon-Mar-27-06 19:00 Florida Boston


NCAA HD:

Thu-Dec-08-05 21:00 College Basketball Georgetown vs Illinois
Thu-Dec-08-05 21:00 College Basketball Umass vs Uconn
Sat-Dec-10-05 14:00 College Basketball Alabama vs Temple
Sat-Dec-17-05 12:00 College Basketball UCLA vs Michigan
Sat-Dec-17-05 14:00 College Basketball Tennessee vs Texas
Sat-Dec-17-05 22:00 College Basketball Las Vegas Shootout: Texas Tech vs UNLV
Tue-Dec-20-05 20:00 College Football New Orleans Bowl
Wed-Dec-21-05 20:00 College Football GMAC Bowl
Thu-Dec-22-05 20:00 College Football Las Vegas Bowl
Thu-Dec-22-05 22:00 College Football Poinsettia Bowl
Fri-Dec-23-05 20:00 College Football Fort Worth Bowl
Mon-Dec-26-05 16:00 College Football Motor City Bowl
Tue-Dec-27-05 17:00 College Football Champs Sports Bowl
Tue-Dec-27-05 20:30 College Football Insight Bowl
Wed-Dec-28-05 16:30 College Football MPC Computers Bowl
Wed-Dec-28-05 20:00 College Football Alamo Bowl
Thu-Dec-29-05 16:30 College Football Emerald Bowl
Thu-Dec-29-05 20:00 College Football Holiday Bowl
Fri-Dec-30-05 12:00 College Football Music City Bowl
Fri-Dec-30-05 15:30 College Football Independence Bowl
Fri-Dec-30-05 19:30 College Football Peach Bowl
Sat-Dec-31-05 11:00 College Football Meineke Car Care Bowl
Sat-Dec-31-05 13:00 College Football Liberty Bowl
Sat-Dec-31-05 14:30 College Football EV1.Net Houston Bowl

Mon-Jan-02-06 11:00 College Football Outback Bowl
Thu-Jan-05-06 19:00 College Basketball Villanova at Louisville
Thu-Jan-05-06 21:00 College Basketball Michigan State at Illinois
Thu-Jan-05-06 23:00 College Basketball BYU at Air Force
Sat-Jan-07-06 12:00 College Basketball Kentucky at Kansas
Sat-Jan-07-06 14:00 College Basketball Illinois at Iowa
Sat-Jan-07-06 15:00 College Basketball NC State at North Carolina
Tue-Jan-10-06 19:00 College Basketball Wisconsin at Minnesota
Tue-Jan-10-06 19:30 College Basketball North Carolina at Virginia Tech
Wed-Jan-11-06 19:00 College Basketball Indiana at Michigan State
Wed-Jan-11-06 21:00 College Basketball Maryland at Duke
Wed-Jan-11-06 21:00 College Basketball Texas A&M at Oklahoma State
Sat-Jan-14-06 12:00 College Basketball Iowa State at Texas Tech
Sat-Jan-14-06 12:00 College Basketball Miami (FL) at North Carolina
Sat-Jan-14-06 14:00 College Basketball Duke at Clemson
Tue-Jan-17-06 19:00 College Basketball Illinois at Indiana
Tue-Jan-17-06 21:00 College Basketball Kentucky at Georgia
Tue-Jan-17-06 TBC College Basketball Louisville at St. John's
Wed-Jan-18-06 19:00 College Basketball NC State at Duke
Thu-Jan-19-06 19:00 College Basketball North Carolina at Virginia
Sat-Jan-21-06 12:00 College Basketball Iowa at Michigan State
Sat-Jan-21-06 16:00 College Basketball Nebraska at Kansas
Sat-Jan-21-06 18:00 College Basketball Syracuse at Villnanova
Sat-Jan-21-06 21:00 College Basketball Uconn at Louisville
Tue-Jan-24-06 21:00 College Basketball Indiana at Iowa
Tue-Jan-24-06 TBC College Basketball Maryland at Georgia
Wed-Jan-25-06 19:30 College Basketball Cincinnati at Louisville
Thu-Jan-26-06 19:00 College Basketball Duke at Virginia Tech
Sat-Jan-28-06 12:00 College Basketball Kansas at Iowa State
Sat-Jan-28-06 12:00 College Basketball Maryland at Temple
Sat-Jan-28-06 18:00 College Basketball Villanova at Notre Dame
Sat-Jan-28-06 19:00 College Basketball Virginia at Duke
Sat-Jan-28-06 21:00 College Basketball Texas at Oklahoma
Sun-Jan-29-06 19:00 College Basketball Women's Hoop: North Carolina at Duke
Tue-Jan-31-06 19:00 College Basketball Illinois at Wisconsin
Tue-Jan-31-06 20:00 College Basketball Florida at Mississippi

well I guess the Boston Bruin fans should be happy... lol

lol... I guess it's better than nothing but pretty sad compared to the BEV offering. The Bruins are not really all that exciting to watch. I guess NESN isn't charging much for their HD programming.

By the time most of those Bruins games are on after the new year they will be toiling for last place in the east.

-Darryl

I honestly don't understand why you guys are so negative.

IMHO, This is great news, more HD! Considering only 4.4% of Rogers customers have HD, the amount of HD programming is phenomenal.

I'll give Rogers a big thumbs up. (and I will give BEV the thumbs up for making a similar announcement today!)

There are lots of HD games available that do not involve the Bruins. I don't see why they couldn't provide some of those like BEV is doing. Sure some (or all of the) Bruins games in HD is better than no games in HD but I don't understand why they don't match Bell.

-Darryl

I'm confused, this schedule must not be complete.. they have a few games from HD net then most appear to be from NESN. Perhaps the contract for HD.NET is still on a game by game basis (still working it out) while they signed w/ NESN for the remainder of the season.

Looking @ it further, all games before jan are from HDNET and then jan being all boston appears to be from NESN.

ODD.

More of any tv content is better. It results in competition and wider selection for all. If Cogeco had HD sports as part of their sports package, I would get it.

Would someone be so kind as to look at my Digital Home FAQ on "Rogers HD offering" and supply me with the 5 channels I'm missing so I can add the information to the FAQ... Thanks.

Man I wish the Sens haddn't played their boston games all before this came online.. :(

I'll have to check with Rogers to see if the schedule is incomplete or not.. HD.net does do a nice job, I'd welcome them to my TV any day..

As all of you enjoy your 31 HD channels, please feel for us Shaw costomers.

As of today(friday, dec. 9) they have added a 10th HD channel, in partial areas of the Shaw territory.

CTV HD...im jumping off the walls.

Congrats!

Ouch... Not that I watch more than 10 channels they still have to be the right 10 channels..

Nope I'm very glad to see Rogers stepping up the HD Sports.. I mean this is what I got the tv for in the first place..

Thanks for posting and this is good news as I see it. More HD hockey is what we asked for and we got it. I am sure in time there will be more offerings of teams. I honestly thought that it would all be the avalanche but who would have thought Boston? I am glad as they are at least an east cost feed team.

This is good news! I'm sure this is only the beginning.... kudos to Rogers for making the effort.

The quality of the hockey games on HDNet is astounding!

I've got the following (5 "additional" channels the rest are simply remaps):

476 - HSP1 (Same as Global - 515)
477 - HSP2 (Same as FoxE - 531)
478 - HSP3 (Fox Detroit)
479 - HSP4 (Same as FoxW - 526)
480 - HSP5 (Same as CBSE - 528)
481 - HSP6 (CBS Detroit)
482 - HSP7 (Same as CBSW - 534)
483 - HSP8 (NCAA, NHL, MLB)
484 - HSP9 (NCAA, NHL, MLB)
485 - HSP10 (NCAA, NHL, MLB)

I've added these to the Rogers FAQ.

Anyone checked the diagnostics to see if the 31 HD channels still have 2 channels per QAM?

This may be a dumb question but to see the HD hockey games do you need to subscribe to the Super Sports Pack, or can you get by with Centre Ice...which costs less.

Center Ice costs less? If it does it can't be by much. 6 months of the Sports pack (which would cover the NHL season) works out to $27 * 6 or $162. Many people like me also get a 10% or 15% discount off of that for being on their VIP or bundle.

-Darryl

Thats not right.
Super Sports Pack = $27.95 month
NHL Centre Ice (standalone) = $29.95 month

I am looking at my bill in front of me. It is $26.95 per month before discounts for the Super Sports Pack.

NHL Center Ice by itself is $199.95 for the year. It is pointless to pay the $199 since you are paying more and getting a lot less.

-Darryl

This may be a dumb question but to see the HD hockey games do you need to subscribe to the Super Sports Pack, or can you get by with Centre Ice...which costs less.

Supersports pak cost $29 including a terminal right now and $25 without.. Plus if you bundle you can save another 15%.. Centerice costs $29 I thought so really supersports pak costs the same and you get more!

What channel is the Colorado Pitsburg game tonight?