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.  

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.

Channel info. for the Fox Sports Carolinas telecast of the Carolina
Hurricanes' home game against the Tampa Bay Lightning at 7 p.m. Thursday,
also being shown in high definition:

Time Warner Cable channels 50 and 272 (HD)
Dish Network — channels 446 and 9516
DirecTV — channels 645 and 645-1

Channel info. for the Fox Sports Carolinas telecast of the Carolina Hurricanes' home game against the Tampa Bay Lightning at 7 p.m. Thursday, also being shown in high definition:

Time Warner Cable channels 50 and 272 (HD)
Dish Network — channels 446 and 9516
DirecTV — channels 645 and 645-1

The Fox Sports Carolinas telecast of the Canes' game 7 p.m. Saturday at Buffalo will be shown on these channels: Time Warner Cable channel 50, Dish Network channel 449 and DirecTV channel 645.

Fox Sports Carolinas' telecast of the Carolina Hurricanes' game at Buffalo will be shown at 7 p.m. Saturday on Time Warner Cable channel 50, Dish Network channel 449 and DirecTV channel 645.