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DIRECTV 11 to be launched on March 17

March 12, 2008 · 2 comments

DirecTV, the leading satellite provider in the country is scheduled to launch its next satellite DIRECTV 11 on Monday, March 17. DIRECTV 11 is to be launched by the Sea Launch, a company based in Long Beach, California which has launched 25 rockets and has a success rate of more than 90%. Sea Launch, is [...]

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Comcast will deliver March Madness college basketball tournament on HD video on demand, Comcast would share with CBS sports, which holds the carriage rights will offer high-definition highlights of the first round games, which on total would work out to be 63 game packages. The special feature of the package would be the Memories of [...]

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DIRECTV started its high-definition expansion last year and has delivered almost 90 HD channels and now adding local HD channels in many Market area. The satcaster is about to launch a new satellite next month and the next phase of HD expansion will start and expected to deliver 150 national and 1500 local HD channels. [...]

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One of the leading satellite TV providers in the country DIRECTV has added local high-definition channels in four market areas. DIRECTV started adding local hd channels to the cities by the end of 2007. Presently DIRECTV has added local HD programming in following market areas:- Louisville, Kentucky WHAS/ABC, WLKY/CBS, WDRB/FOX and WAVE/NBC in HD are [...]

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After last year bliss of high-definition by DirecTV announcing “Year of HD”, the satcaster committed 100 HD channels before 2007 during Investor Relations meet on 01-08-2007, but failed with the commitment and ended the year with 87 HD channels. Dish Network and Cable Companies in USA were stranded and lost their customers to DirecTV. The [...]

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The Weather Channel set to launch its high-definition studio program broadcast from June 2 onwards. The Channel’s new 12,500-square-foot HD facility is expected to be completed by this month. The Weather Channel is expecting to launch Evening Edition and Your Weather Today on the day of launch. Debora Wilson president of the channel said they [...]

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