As part of its roll out of local HD stations to consumers, DBS firm DirecTV has designated its next 14 U.S. markets where it will offer programming by the end of 2006. With the latest inclusion, DirecTV will be offering local HD in 50 major metro areas, which it said will represent more than two-thirds of all U.S. ho

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

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

Dish has now begun providing satellite coverage of local HD broadcast channels in Albuquerque, Atlanta, Boston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C. To date, Dish now offers local HD channels in a dozen cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville and Denver. In each n

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

EchoStar's Dish Network has begun offering local HD channels of the big four networks via satellite to its subscribers in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, specifically: KABC, KCBS, KNBC and KTTV. The launch in the nation's second-largest TV market is coming (not incidentally) just in time to catch the winter Oly

DirecTV subscribers in some markets soon will begin receiving locally broadcast HD signals from their satellite dishes, proving that sometimes the shortest distance to local HD content is a straight line to space.

The satellite TV provider now offers local HD channels in 53 cities, representing more than 67 percent of U.S. TV households.