DIRECTV Adds Brigham Young University Television to Public Interest Programming Lineup.Business Editors EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2000 DIRECTV Inc., provider of the nation's leading digital satellite television service, today announced that it will add Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah; Latter-Day Saints; coeducational; opened as an academy in 1875 and became a university in 1903. It is noted for its law and business schools. (BYU BYU Brigham Young University BYU Bayou BYU Bob's Your Uncle BYU Bayreuth, Germany - Bindlacher Berg (Airport Code) BYU Beyond Your Understanding ) Television to the DIRECTV(R) programming lineup beginning Dec. 14, 2000. BYU Television is a non-commercial channel that broadcasts educational material from Brigham Young University's three campuses, located in Utah, Hawaii and Idaho. BYU Television features a variety of BYU sports, devotionals and concerts, provided by Brigham Young University and the Church of Jesus Christ Church of Jesus Christ may refer to:
"DIRECTV continues to deliver programming that caters to the interests of the national public by offering customers the most diverse, complete, digital-quality programming lineup available," said Stephanie Campbell, senior vice president of Programming for DIRECTV. "The addition of BYU Television will be a dynamic enhancement to the DIRECTV public interest programming lineup." BYU Television, available on DIRECTV channel 374, will be broadcast from DIRECTV's satellite at the 119-degree West longitude (WL) orbital location and requires an 18-by-24-inch multi-satellite dish and receiver to be received. Public interest programming is offered to DIRECTV customers 24 hours a day, at no additional cost. The current DIRECTV public interest lineup includes C-SPAN, Eternal Word Television Network The Eternal Word Television Network ("EWTN") is a U.S.-based broadcasting network that carries Catholic-themed programming, including a Daily Mass from its Birmingham, Alabama Monastery/Studios, talk shows such as EWTN Live and Sunday Night Live, , Trinity Broadcast Network, WorldLink TV, NASA TV, 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, YOU, StarNet, Clara+Vision, Inspirational Life and Word Network. Congress mandated in Section 25 of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 that all providers of direct broadcast satellite service make available a portion of their capacity for non-commercial programming of an educational and informational nature. DIRECTV offers non-commercial public interest channels under guidelines established by the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. . DIRECTV is the nation's leading digital satellite television service provider with more than 9 million customers. DIRECTV and the Cyclone Design logo are trademarks of DIRECTV Inc., a unit of Hughes Electronics Corp. HUGHES is the world's leading provider of digital television entertainment, and satellite and wireless systems and services. The earnings of HUGHES, a unit of General Motors Corp., are used to calculate the earnings per share attributable to the General Motors Class H common stock (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GMH GMH General Motors Holden's ). Visit DIRECTV on the World Wide Web at www.DIRECTV.com. |
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