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Comcast adding FX, FOX News and SPEED HD in Reston, VA
When Comcast gets on a roll, it gets on a roll. The carrier's latest trio that it has been pushing all over the nation involves FX HD, SPEED HD and FOX News HD. Needless to say, this very threesome has been revealed in Reston, Virginia... sort of, anyway. According to a tipster with a Vista MCE box in the area, these three have shown up on the EPG, though every one is still currently unactivated. It should be noted, however, that the last time he saw this happen, the channels went live within a fortnight. We'll let you do the math from here.[Thanks, Silvio]
Sprint packing up, moving HQ to Kansas
Unhappy with the lack of cultural integration between Sprint and Nextel since the companies' fateful merger several years ago, new CEO Dan Hesse -- who conveniently already lives in Kansas, having come from Embarq -- is moving corporate headquarters from Reston, Virginia back to Kansas City suburb Overland Park. While 4,400 peeps currently inhabit the Reston location (which it inherited as Nextel's former HQ), the Overland Park campus already employs a much larger base of 13,000. The chief says that Sprint will maintain a "significant" presence out in its Reston offices, but the big boys and girls in the boardroom are going to find themselves back in the land of Toto, tornadoes, and Garmin in the not-too-distant future.[Via mocoNews]
Comcast readies new batch of HD channels for Reston, Virginia
Considering just how many locales in the Southeast have been hit up with new HD additions from Comcast of late, you may get the impression that doing so was its job. Nevertheless, we're quite pleased to hear that one particular subscriber parked in Reston, Virginia just received an FYI card from the cable provider stating that a new round of high-definition channels would be landing on March 4th. Granted, we'd heard whispers that Discovery HD, TLC HD, Animal Planet HD, USA HD, Food Network HD, HGTV HD, CNN HD, History HD and SciFi HD would actually hit Reston late last month, but we suppose a month (and change) late is better than never. So, who else is receiving these cards, and more importantly, where in the wide world are you?[Thanks, Silvio]
