DIRECTV Expands St. Louis Local Broadcast Channel Package; Additional Local Channels Now Available to St. Louis Customers.Business & Entertainment Editors EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 27, 2001 DIRECTV, Inc., provider of the nation's leading digital television service, announced that beginning today it will offer four additional local broadcast channels via satellite for its DIRECTV(R) customers in the St. Louis 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 2000 DIRECTV has been offering its customers in the St. Louis DMA access to a local channel package that includes KMOV (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ), KSDK (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. ) KDNL (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. ) and KTVI (FOX) for $5.99 per month. DIRECTV is expanding the St. Louis local channel package to include KETC (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, ), KPLR (WB), KNLC and WHSL WHSL Wholesale WHSL Women's Health Specialist Library (UK) at no additional charge.
St. Louis DMA New Local Channel Package
KMOV (CBS/Channel 4) KSDK (NBC/Channel 5)
KDNL (ABC/Channel 30) KTVI (FOX/Channel 2)
KETC (PBS/Channel 9)(a) KPLR (WB/Channel 11)(a)
KNLC (Channel 24)(a) WHSL (Channel 46)(a)
(a)Local channels now available
"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 St. Louis to drop their cable service and choose DIRECTV as their source for home entertainment." Local channels are delivered to DIRECTV customers in St. Louis 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 St. Louis channels from DIRECTV are available in the following counties:
Missouri: Illinois:
Crawford Saint Charles Bond Madison
Franklin Saint Francois Calhoun Marion
Gasconade Saint Louis Clinton Monroe
Iron Saint Louis City Fayette Montgomery
Jefferson Sainte Genevieve Greene Randolph
Lincoln Warren Jersey Saint Clair
Pike Washington Macoupin Washington
DIRECTV is supporting its local-into-local offerings in St. Louis 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 GMH General Motors Holden's ). Visit DIRECTV on the World Wide Web at DIRECTV.com. |
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