BBC America HD Continues to Expand Across the US

BBC America HD is now available across 20 states as it continues to roll out rapidly across the country. Video service providers including Time Warner Cable, DISH Network, Cox Communications, Bright House, BendBroadband, Click! Network and GCI have come on board since the channel was launched in July 2009 providing availability in such key cities as New York and Los Angeles.

In Tacoma, WA, Click! Network is the first operator to offer BBC America HD on video-on-demand (VOD). This option allows viewers to watch the best BBC America programs in HD at their convenience. The first VOD asset is the International Emmy award-winning, Top Gear.

Kristina Song, Senior Vice President Network Sales & Distribution Strategy says, “We’ve had a great response from our viewers and distribution partners since BBC America HD launched last year. We’re delighted to serve the increasing demand in the marketplace by bringing the best of British programming to American audiences in HD.”

BBC America HD is a simulcast of BBC America.  One of the top rated shows, Doctor Who, gave thechannel its highest ever primetime rating last month with over 1.335 million viewers and a ranking of #8 in coverage rating during the premiere among ad supported cable nets for A25-54.  Other top performing shows include sci-fi series Torchwood, car entertainment show Top Gear and king of the kitchen Gordon Ramsay.

In addition to the channel’s expanding HD affiliates network and the ratings success, BBC America is now available in 66 million households nationwide and the channel’s news program, BBC World News America recently won an Emmy® Award for Business and Financial Reporting.