The guy answers his email, I am impressed..

Derrick Hall is the President of the Arizona Diamondbacks

From: Hall, Derrick [DHall@dbacks.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 5:51 PM
To: Paul Benjamin
Subject: RE: High Definition Diamondbacks Games

We heard they've been giving that reply. We are working out the details and hope to have them. Thanks Paul.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Benjamin [mailto:paul@howmanyroads.net]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 05:26 PM US Mountain Standard Time
To: Hall, Derrick
Subject: RE: High Definition Diamondbacks Games

So does that mean that we will be getting the games in HD soon? We were
told by someone from KTVK that it was your choice not to provide the games.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hall, Derrick [mailto:DHall@dbacks.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:29 AM
> To: Paul Benjamin
> Subject: RE: High Definition Diamondbacks Games
>
>
> Yes. It was not our decision. We are naturally going to go
> all HD if the station elects to do so. We would love to
> provide all of our games in high def.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Benjamin [mailto:paul@howmanyroads.net]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:20 AM US Mountain Standard Time
> To: Hall, Derrick
> Subject: High Definition Diamondbacks Games
>
> Dear Mr. Hall,
>
> I have been a Diamondbacks season ticketholder since the
> beginning. I am a
> big supporter of the team and watch nearly every game that I
> don't attend.
> (While the tickets are in my name, I share with a group and
> attend about 20
> home games each year). I was pleased last year to be able to
> watch the home
> games that were on Channel 3 in HD. While I am a Cox
> subscriber, I also
> have over the air capabilities on my plasma TV and, living
> just north of downtown, can pick up the
> signal easily with
> a small indoor antenna. I have been really upset at your
> decision to not
> provide the games to Channel 3 this year in HD. My
> understanding is that
> the issue was the lack of availability of KTVK-HD on Cox. It
> appears now,
> however, that Channel 3 will start doing their news shows in
> HD later this
> month and that Cox, under the new Cox-Belo agreement, will
> start carrying
> the digital channel on Cox 703. Can you tell me if this
> (along with DirecTV
> carrying KTVK-HD as well) will change your decision not have
> the games in HD
> this year? Any insight into this situation would be great.
> Thanks for
> taking the time to read this.
> --
> Paul Benjamin
> http://ratinthekitchen.blogspot.com
>
>
>