DIRECTV Expands Miami Local Broadcast Channel Package; Additional Local Channels Now Available to Miami Customers.Business & Entertainment Editors EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 27, 2001 DIRECTV, Inc., provider of the nation's leading digital television service, announced that beginning today, Dec. 27, 2001, it will offer seven additional local broadcast channels via satellite for its DIRECTV customers in the Miami designated market area (DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. ). Since 1999 DIRECTV has been offering its customers in the Miami DMA access to a local channel WPLG (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ), WFOR (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ), WSVN (FOX) and WTVJ (NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. ), for $5.99 per month. DIRECTV is expanding the Miami local channel package to WPBT WPBT World Poker Blogger Tour (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, ), WLRN (PBS), WLTV (Univision), WBFS (UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation ), WBZL (WB), WSCV (Telemundo) and WAMI WAMI Washington-Alaska-Montana-Idaho WAMI Wireless and Microwave Instructional Laboratory (University of South Florida) (Telefutura), at no additional charge.
Miami DMA New Local Channel Package
WPLG (ABC)/Channel 10 WLTV (Univision)Channel 23(a)
WFOR (CBS)/Channel 4 WBFS (UPN)Channel 33(a)
WSVN (FOX)/Channel 7 WBZL (WB)/Channel 39(a)
WTVJ (NBC)/Channel 6 WSCV (Telemundo)/Channel 51(a)
WPBT (PBS)/Channel 2(a) WAMI (Telefutura)/Channel 69(b)
WLRN (PBS)/Channel 17(a)
(a) New local channels available.
(b) Available in January.
"Enabling our customers to receive these additional local channels provides them with a true cable replacement," said Roxanne Austin, president and COO of DIRECTV, Inc. "By offering more local channels on DIRECTV programming, our customers can access entertainment and information that's most relevant to their lives and their community. Now is as good a time as any for consumers in Miami to drop their cable service and choose DIRECTV as their source for home entertainment." Local channels are delivered to DIRECTV customers in Miami from DIRECTV's primary orbital slot at 101 degrees West Longitude. As a result, 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 and 18-inch antenna. Local Miami channels from DIRECTV are available in the following counties:
Broward
Miami-Dade
Monroe
DIRECTV is supporting its local-into-local offerings in Miami with marketing, point-of-sale and advertising campaigns in coordination with its extensive consumer electronics retailing partners and affiliate satellite dealers. DIRECTV is the nation's leading digital satellite television service provider with more than 10.3 million customers. DIRECTV and the Cyclone Design logo are trademarks of DIRECTV, Inc., a unit of Hughes Electronics Corporation. HUGHES is the world's leading provider of digital television entertainment, broadband services, satellite-based private business networks, and global video and data broadcasting. The earnings of HUGHES, a unit of General Motors Corporation, 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). Visit DIRECTV on the World Wide Web at DIRECTV.com. |
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