Description and Programming
The network broadcasts live tournaments, news, one-on-one interviews, game analysis and skills instruction. Tennis Channel has extensive coverage of the Davis Cup, Fed Cup and Hopman Cup as well as other tournaments throughout the year. Tennis Channel obtained the U.S. broadcast rights to the French Open, broadcasting them for the first time in 2007. Tennis Channel also puts on an ATP tournament in Las Vegas called the Tennis Channel Open.
Tennis Channel is available across the United States from most cable providers and on Dish Network. In April 2007, Tennis Channel reached an agreement to be carried on DirecTV. The agreement included a free preview of the 2007 French Open to all DirecTV subscribers. Full carriage of Tennis Channel by DirecTV was added as channel 217 on August 27, 2007. The network launched a 1080i High Definition version in December 2007 called Tennis Channel HD. The Standard Definition network feed of the channel is broadcast domestically on cable satellite Galaxy 23 and the High Definition feed of the channel is broadcast on cable satellite Galaxy 13 and the channel originates its broadcasts out of Tennis Channel's own HD broadcast center in Culver City, CA. In September 2009, Tennis Channel launched daily Court Report news segments.
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