With the Food Network and Home and Garden TV expected to expand into the high-definition arena next year, a local production company is poised to benefit.
Littleton-based High Noon Entertainment, which produces three shows for Home and Garden TV and two for the Food Network, is in the process of making its studios capable of shooting and editing footage in high-definition.
Among the company’s better known shows are “Unwrapped” and “If Walls Could Talk.”
“We are putting news out about High Noon’s high-definition facilities,” said Jennifer Vogelmann, spokeswoman for High Noon Entertainment.
Earlier this year, the Scripps Network, operators of the Food Network and Home and Garden TV, announced plans to roll out two new high-definition channels, Food Network HD and HGTV HD, in 2006.
High Noon Entertainment operates out of the Comcast Media Center, which is fully equipped to produce television shows in high-definition.
High Noon Entertainment was founded in 1996 by four former KUSA journalists as three separate companies. The privately held companies merged in June under the name High Noon.
The company employs 150 workers in Littleton and 25 in a Los Angeles office. It has produced more than 1,500 hours of programming.
In March, the Food Network reached 87 million homes and HGTV reached 88 million.
Staff writer Kimberly S. Johnson can be reached at 303-820-1088 or kjohnson@denverpost.com.
