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DirecTV Adds Local HD in Six Markets

Syracuse, N.Y., Toledo, Ohio Among New Additions

By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 9/18/2008 5:11:00 AM

DirecTV has added local HD service to six new markets, namely Syracuse, N.Y., Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio, Mobile, Ala.-Pensacola, Fla., Richmond-Petersburg, Va., and South Bend-Elkhart, Ind., officials said Wednesday.

With the addition of these markets, the satellite provider now offers local HD broadcast channels in 91 cities, representing 81% of U.S. TV households. 

DirecTV is continuing its expansion of HD programming with the launch of local HD channels and will add 30 more HD local channel markets by the end of the year, when it will provide local HD broadcast channels in 121 cities, representing more than 88% of U.S. TV households. 

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  While it's nice that DirecTV added more local HD channels, I hardly consider launching TWO CHANNELS launching local HD channels in the South Bend-Elkhart region.

  
  

  
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