The nation’s leading satellite television service provider, DirecTV has announced that the satecaster will add 44 new HD local channel markets in August. With this expansion DirecTV will provide local HD broadcast channels in 121 cities, representing more than 88 percent of U.S. TV households.
DIRECTV will add local HD programming from the primary broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC – where available and authorized, to customers who subscribe to any TOTAL CHOICE programming package that offers local channels. Apart from these HD expansion DirecTV also has plans to launch new satellite DIRECTV 12 in 2009 and with the help of the satellite the satecaster will deliver 200 national HD and 1,500 local HD channels.
The new markets include :
Augusta, Georgia
Bangor, Maine
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas
Boise, Idaho
Burlington, Vt.-Plattsburgh, New York
Butte-Bozeman, Mont.
Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, Illinois
Charleston, South Carolina
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Colorado Springs-Pueblo, Colorado
Columbia-Jefferson City, Missouri
Davenport, Iowa-Rock Island, Illinois
Dayton, Ohio
Des Moines-Ames, Iowa
Dothan, Alabama
El Paso, Texas
Evansville, Indiana
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Greenville-New Bern-Washington
Harrisonburg, Virginia
La Crosse-Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Lincoln-Hastings, Nebraska
Little Rock-Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Macon, Georgia
Mich.– Harlingen-Brownsville, Texas
Mobile AL-Pensacola, Florida
Moline, Illinois
Myrtle Beach-Florence, South Carolina
Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia
Palm Springs, California
Peoria-Bloomington, Illinois
Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia
Rochester, New York
Rockford, Illinois
Savannah, Georgia
Sioux Falls, S. Dakota
South Bend-Elkhart, Indiana
Springfield-Holyoke, Massachusetts
Syracuse, New York
Tallahassee, Florida
Toledo, Ohio
Traverse City-Cadillac, North Carolina and
Youngstown, Ohio
Related posts:
