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January 18, 2006

Why CBS Sports isn't 100% HD

Marty Franks is the general counsel of CBS Corporation and its government liaison. He's also a high-tech aficionado and the network's point man on high definition.

A number of you have emailed or called me with your frustrations over the network's failure to go all hi-def. Three NFL games a week, at most, are carried in HDTV. And there's a pecking order to March Madness: there are games that look great and then there's the game you're watching.

So I asked Marty, during a break in CBS's presentations today, why the network hasn't upgraded to all hi-def, all the time. And the way he put it was ...

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