The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network announced it will broadcast 80 baseball games in high-definition this season, split evenly between the Nationals and Orioles.
The network said all six interleague games between the Nats and O's will be in HD, as well as the Nationals' first game back after the opener and the road swing: April 7 vs. Florida. The complete schedule of HD games will be published in the next two weeks.
MASN said that the "Nats Xtra" and "O's Xtra" pre-game and post-game shows will return and that 160 will be produced on location at the ballparks, up from 64 last season.
This is the first year MASN has rolled out HD broadcasts, and the 80-game schedule leaves 242 that will be shown in standard definition. The Nationals and Orioles are among the few teams remaining in baseball that do not have all their games broadcast in HD.
MASN, which now reaches 5.2 million homes, said it expects all HD games to be shown on the HD tiers of its cable and satellite partners. Listings for the HD channels will be available before the season begins.
All of MASN's announcers and reporters will return for 2008, with the exception of Don Baylor.
