Dish Adds Azteca America In San Francisco

Station Launch Completes Market Coverage

By Laura Martinez -- Multichannel News, 10/23/2008 5:12:00 PM

With the launch of its station on Dish Network, Azteca America has rounded out its coverage in the San Francisco DMA.

Azteca America officials said its digital signal, which airs on Granite Broadcasting's Kofy on channel 20.4, is now available on Dish's basic tier in the market.

“Carriage by Dish Network on Channel 15, in addition to our delivery on DirecTV channel 15, Comcast channel 196 and our full-power digital signal enables us to deliver Azteca America’s programming to the entire market,” said Mark Paretchan, vice president and general manager of Azteca America San Francisco, in a statement. “This deal completes the circle.”

Financial terms were not disclosed.

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