SPEED HD to Launch on Comcast

Fox Cable Networks has entered into an agreement with Comcast – which has more HD television subscribers than any other distributor — to make its general entertainment flagship FX and top motorsports network SPEED available to Comcast HD subscribers by the end of 2009.

With the launch on Comcast and other carriage agreements, FX HD will now exceed more than 10 million HD homes since its October debut; and SPEED will grow to more than 9 million HD homes since its own February premiere.

“We appreciate having as important an HD provider as Comcast endorse two of our most popular HD networks," said Mike Hopkins, president of affiliate sales and marketing for Fox Cable Networks. “FX and SPEED are helping to lead the way in America’s transition to digital television and especially HD, and so we’re pleased so many local systems are adding them to their HD line-ups."

With the new Comcast agreement, FX HD and SPEED HD are each carried by the nation’s largest cable television HD provider; the nation’s largest satellite television HD provider, and the national’s largest telephony HD video provider, among several others.