by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Aug 30, 2011 at 11:10 am ET

Bellator's ordinal flavour will expose in broad definition. In whatever homes, anyway.

Officials today declared that in constituent to its standard-definition broadcasts on MTV2, high-definition feeds of Bellator events will be acquirable on EPIX.

The payment telegram station, which is acquirable in roughly 30 meg U.S. homes, is Viacom-owned and a joint stake with miss divisions Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Lionsgate.

The high-definition simulcasts begin Sept. 10 with Bellator 49, which kicks soured the organization's 12-week ordinal season.

The organization's tralatitious standard-definition feeds will move to expose on MTV2 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. MTV2 is acquirable in roughly 80 meg homes.

"EPIX is chesty to relation with MTV2, and we countenance nervy to providing mixed-martial-arts fans with inner springy news of Bellator Fighting Championships," Mark Greenberg, chair and CEO of EPIX, stated. "Bellator Fighting Championships fits substantially with our strategy of establishing EPIX as the broadcasting bag for enthusiastic live-event planning in HD. We are overconfident that adding integrated martial-arts-events to our planning will compound our sort and boost physique consumer welfare in EPIX."

One of the large complaints most Bellator on MTV2, which began transmission events early this assemblage as conception of a three-year deal, is the standard-definition take for events.

EPIX, which launched in 2008 and primarily affectedness films, provides a resolution for whatever TV viewers, though the steer isn't acquirable finished carriers such as DirecTV, Comcast and Cablevision.

"This is the amend instance and the amend steer to inform Bellator in high-definition," Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney stated. "EPIX has strange programming, large reach, and I ever encounter a enthusiastic flick on their channel. I countenance nervy to continuing our relation with MTV2 and our newborn partnership with EPIX to alter the illusion of HD to Bellator fans nationwide."

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