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“NFL Sunday Ticket” subscribers will not have live access to Saturday’s rescheduled Tennessee Titans-Miami Dolphins National Football League game.

The out-of-market package, which retails for $209 on DirecTV Inc., offers unlimited coverage of regular-season NFL games. But a DirecTV spokeswoman said the league is not making the Tennessee-Miami game -- which will be played one day earlier than originally scheduled due to Hurricane Ivan, which could hit Florida this weekend -- available nationally.

Pegasus Communications Corp. just can’t win in court against DirecTV Inc.

A federal district court judge Thursday granted DirecTV’s motions to eliminate all remaining claims against it by Pegasus and Golden Sky Systems Inc. in the parties’ four-year-old lawsuit.

This follows an April 14 ruling in which a federal jury awarded DirecTV $51.5 million in damages from Pegasus regarding a lawsuit Pegasus filed against the direct-broadcast satellite giant claiming that DirecTV breached a joint marketing contract.

EchoStar Communications Corp.’s Dish Network said Thursday that it will offer local channels via satellite in the Norfolk, Va., area.

Norfolk-area Dish customers in 25 counties can now receive ABC channel 13 (WVEC), CBS channel 3 (WTKR), Fox channel 43 (WVBT), NBC channel 10 (WAVY), PBS channel 15 (WHRO), UPN channel 27 (WGNT) and The WB channel 33 (WTVZ).

Dish now offers local channels in 144 cities and their metro areas, in 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Hughes Network Systems Inc. introduced a satellite-based virtual-private-network-acceleration technology Tuesday.

The company said its “DIRECWAY VPN Accelerator” will enable “enterprises and government agencies to implement uniformly efficient and secure wide-area broadband networks reaching teleworker employees at any location, urban or rural.”

The Accelerator is based on the IPsec (Internet-protocol-security protocol) standard.

DirecTV Latin America LLC moved one step closer to emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday.

The direct-broadcast satellite operator said the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., has confirmed its plan of reorganization.

DirecTV Latin America said it expects its plan to become effective by the end of this month.

The company’s March 2003 filing only applied to its U.S. entity, and not to any of its operating companies in Latin America and the Caribbean.