ADVISORY/DIRECTV Adds WWOR UPN to its New York City Local Channel Package.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Oct. 18) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT: DIRECTV, Inc. announced today that it has added WWOR (UPN)
to its local channel lineup in the New York City designated
market area (DMA).
WHEN: New York City DIRECTV customers subscribing to the local
channel package will begin receiving WWOR today, Wednesday,
Oct. 18. Local channel service in the New York City DMA
began in November 1999.
With the addition of WWOR, DIRECTV customers in the New York
City DMA now receive the following local channels via
satellite:
-- WABC (ABC)
-- WCBS (CBS)
-- WNBC (NBC)
-- WNYW (FOX)
-- WPIX (WB)
-- WWOR (UPN)
DIRECTV customers can subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; their local channel package for $5.99 per month. In addition to local broadcast network channels, a national PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, feed is included in each local channel package at no additional charge. Local channels are delivered to DIRECTV customers in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. from DIRECTV's primary orbital slot at 101 degrees West Longitude longitude (lŏn`jĭt  d'), angular distance on the earth's surface measured along any latitude line such as the equator east or west of the prime meridian. .
DIRECTV customers can receive their local channels, as well as
DIRECTV's current lineup of national digital entertainment and
information programming, through their existing set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. and 18-inch
antenna.
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