DIRECTV Expands New York Local Broadcast Channel Package; Additional Local Channels Now Available to New York-Area 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 it will offer nine additional local broadcast channels via satellite for its DIRECTV(R) customers in the New York 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 New York DMA access to a local channel package that includes WABC WABC Worldwide Association of Business Coaches WABC Westamerica Bancorporation (NASDAQ symbol) WABC World Aquatic Babies Congress WABC World Association of Business Coaches WABC World Aquatic Babies & Children , WNBC WNBC Wearing Nothing But Chainmail , WCBS WCBS Wireline Core-Barrel Sampling WCBS West Coast Business Systems and Supplies, Inc. (Palm Desert, CA) , WNYW WNYW What New Yorkers Watch (television station in New York City) (FOX), WWOR (UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation ) and WPIX (WB) for $5.99 per month. DIRECTV is expanding the New York local channel package to include WNET Wnet Windows Networking WNET Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training WNET Wireless Network (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, ), WNYE (PBS), WXTV (Univision), WNJU (Telemundo), WNJN (PBS), WLNY (Independent), WRNN (Independent), WMBC WMBC Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council WMBC West Midland Bird Club (UK) WMBC Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council (UK) WMBC Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council (Independent) and WFUT (Telefutura), at no additional charge.
New York DMA New Local Channel Package
-- WABC (Channel 7)
-- WCBS (Channel 2)
-- WWOR (UPN/Channel 9)
-- WNET (PBS/Channel 13) (a)
-- WXTV (Univision/Channel 41) (a)
-- WNJN (PBS/Channel 50) (a)
-- WRNN (Independent/Channel 62) (a)
-- WFUT (Telefutura/Channel 68) (b)
-- WNBC (Channel 4)
-- WNYW (FOX/Channel 5)
-- WPIX (WB/Channel 11)
-- WNYE (PBS/Channel 25) (a)
-- WNJU (Telemundo/Channel 47) (a)
-- WLNY (Independent/Channel 55) (a)
-- WMBC (Independent/Channel 63) (a)
(a) New local channels now 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 New York to drop their cable service and choose DIRECTV as their source for home entertainment." Local channels are delivered to DIRECTV customers in New York 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 New York channels from DIRECTV are available in the following counties:
Connecticut Pennsylvania
Fairfield Pike
New Jersey New York
Bergen Bronx
Essex Dutchess
Hudson Kings
Hunterford Nassau
Middlesex New York
Monmouth Orange
Morris Putnam
Ocean Queens
Passaic Richmond
Somerset Rockland
Sussex Suffolk
Union Sullivan
Warren Ulster
Westchester
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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