FiOS TV Adds NESN HD

Verizon to Carry HD Boston Red Sox, Bruins Games

By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 4/2/2007 4:30:00 PM

Verizon Communications said it will offer HD broadcasts of Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball and Bruins National Hockey League games, and other programming carried by New England Sports Network, to FiOS TV subscribers in the Boston market.

NESN HD will be available on FiOS TV channel 829 at no additional charge. Verizon currently offers FiOS TV, which carries 24 other HD channels, to more than 270,000 households in 40 Massachusetts communities.

NESN is owned by the Red Sox and the Bruins.

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