DirecTV dumps Here.On World AIDS Day World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. AIDS has killed more than 25 million people, with an estimated 38. , December December: see month. 1, satellite TV provider DirecTV DirecTV (trademarked as "DIRECTV") is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service based in El Segundo, California, USA, that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America except for Mexico. quietly suffocated one of its two LGBT LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender channels. Here TV, which offers such exclusive series and movies as Dante's Cove and Third Man Out, was previously available 24/7 on DirectTV as a subscription service. Now it's accessible just 12 hours a week--beginning at 6 P.M. each Tuesday--and only on a pay-per-view basis. Subscribers who complained have received a form letter directing them to "similar programming ... on the recently added Logo TV," although none of Here's original programming appears on the competing Viacom channel. Here TV backed DirecTV's statement that the truncation was just "a business decision." Rather than mounting a campaign to change DirecTV's mind, the gay channel is urging DirecTV subscribers to "visit heretv.com for alternate ways to get Here." |
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