Fox Sports Carolinas now says that Game 3 of the NHL playoff series between the New Jersey Devils and Carolina Hurricanes — and Game 6, if necessary — will be shown in high definition. The original television schedule had listed all of the games as being broadcast in standard definition, prompting numerous complaints from fans.

Game 3 will be 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the RBC Center and Game 6, if necessary, on Sunday April 26.

That means Time Warner Cable will show the game on channel 50 and in HD on channel 272. Dish and DirecTV subscribers will have to check on the alternate channels the two satellite providers will use. 

Fox Sports Carolinas is trying to do something about the no-HD first-round playoff series between Carolina and New Jersey, and Dish changes the channel. Read more here.

Fox Sports Carolinas is trying to get at least one of the Hurricanes' first-round playoff games televised in high definition, and the word is in on which Dish Network channel will show Game 2.

A new baseball season is here. Your team is still in it. But Time Warner Cable's long and so far losing fight against MASN threatens to keep much of North Carolina in the dark again this season.

When top-ranked tennis player Rafael Nadal was in danger of being upset, Fox Sports Carolinas stuck with his match in the Sony Ericsson Open, causing hockey fans to miss the first few minutes of the Carolina Hurricanes' 4-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday, including Eric Staal's goal that made it 1-0.

Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina upset Nadal 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 in a match that took longer than expected. Hurricanes spokesman Kyle Hanlin said FS Carolinas made the decision to stay with the match as it went into a tiebreak at about 6:55 p.m. By the time the tennis match ended, the hockey game was 4 minutes, 17 seconds old (about 7:15 p.m.). Staal scored at 4:28, and cable subscribers got the telecast at 4:52, Hanlin said, adding that satellite TV subscribers could see the game from the start.

The HD telecast was delayed, too, on cable.

The network has informed the Canes that viewers in North Carolina will be switched to the Penguins-Canes game at 7 p.m. Saturday, regardless of how long the Florida-Vanderbilt baseball game goes.

That said, FS Carolinas simply has to do better by hockey fans in a hockey market. Even when things go right, there aren't nearly enough Canes games in HD.  

The impossibly caring coach and his impossibly hot principal wife live.

TV Week reports that Universal Media Studios, Imagine Television and DirecTV have closed a deal to produce 26 more episodes of "Friday Night Lights."

The newly ordered episodes will almost certainly be the final batch produced, with writers crafting plotlines with an eye on a final episode. However, it’s unclear if UMS and DirecTV will officially announce an end date for the show, as ABC did with "Lost."

The 26 episodes will be produced consecutively without a break. However, DirecTV will air the episodes as two 13-episode seasons.

As with the previous deal for the show, NBC will get a second window of the “FNL” episodes following their airing on DirecTV.

Apparently, heaven for cancelled (or thisclose to cancelled) shows is DirecTV.

According to Variety, along with helping out "Friday Night Lights" and bringing back critically acclaimed "Wonderland", DirecTV will now revive "Smith," "The Nine" and "Eyes."

Don't remember "Eyes", but the other two were good shows with promise. It's unclear whether TV.com has all the same episodes, but check it out before you buy that dish.

Buffalo Sabres at Carolina 7 p.m. Thursday: Time Warner Cable ch. 50; Dish Network ch. 446; DirecTV ch. 645

The Charlotte Bobcats' TV ratings are still among the lowest in the NBA, and they're not helped by the limited number of games being shown live in the Raleigh-Durham market.

... for game at Ottawa at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday:

Time Warner Cable ch. 50, DirecTV ch. 645, Dish Network ch. 447 (none in HD)