Roll-out to start this summer

DirecTV plans to begin HD delivery of local broadcast digital channels in approximately a dozen markets by the end of 2005, if not sooner. New subscribers, and only new subs, will be targeted first to order MPEG-4 receivers. The DBS provider has not yet made a formal announcement about the start of local-station H

DBS provider DirecTV has begun offering local HD channels to dish subs in the markets of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Sacramento, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Nashville, Kansas City, Columbus, Ohio, and Birmingham, Ala. The firm’s ramp-up of local HD channels in these eight DMAs is part of a nationwide development of HD programm

The direct-to-home satellite TV provider announced plans to add seven more markets where it’s making local HD broadcasters available

DirecTV has announced the initial introduction of 12 local HD broadcast channels available to approximately 36 million U.S. households. Consumers will receive the local channels after the Spaceway 1 and Spaceway 2 satellites--built by Boeing--are launched in during the second quarter of this year.. New York, Los

DirecTV announced it has successfully launched Spaceway F1 , a Boeing 702 model satellite, on a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket from the ocean-based Odyssey Launch Platform. The satellite will be used to broadcast local HDTV channels into the largest markets in the United States. DirecTV 10 will join the Spaceway F1 Ka-

DirecTV had grown its markets offering local broadcast HD channels by six in the past several days.