Dish Network Launches TVG Interactive After years of promises and disappointments, true two-way interactivity for horse-race wagering will reach 10 million TV sets nationwide this month through the Dish Network’s launch March 2 of the TVG Interactive Horseracing channel. EchoStar Communications Corp.’s satellite service has begun rolling out the virtual channel to the 90% of […]
DirecTV Files Lawsuit Against 19 Canadians DirecTV, Inc. announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in Ontario against 19 Canadian citizens and five of their businesses that it believes were participating in a scheme to activate fraudulent DirecTV accounts that enabled individuals to receive DirecTV programming without authorization by, or proper payment to DirecTV. […]
DirecTV Unit Chief Quits A top executive at DirecTV left the company as CEO Chase Carey consolidated his control of the satellite television broadcaster. DirecTV said Mitch Stern, who had been president and CEO of its DirecTV Inc. operating subsidiary, left effective today. Carey will take over his roles, and the company won’t replace Stern. […]
Humax Inks Deal With DIRECTV for Digital Satellite Set Top Boxes Humax, a leading international manufacturer of digital satellite set-top boxes today disclosed it has entered into a development agreement and supply agreement with DIRECTV, Inc. the leading digital satellite TV provider in the United States. The agreements encompass various set top box models including […]
DIRECTV Tunes in to Expanded AT&T Contract AT&T announced today that it has expanded its decade-long relationship with DIRECTV, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of digital multichannel television service, with a new three-year networking contract valued at more than $69 million. The agreement ensures that DIRECTV is better able to control costs while gaining the […]
Verizon, DirecTV get closer — for now Over the past month, Verizon has begun offering new customers a single bill that combines their satellite TV charges with their phone bill, more clearly identifying the $2 to $6 in monthly savings they can get. By June, Verizon hopes to begin sending a combined statement to tens […]
Dish Network Satellite TV Offers Pentagon Channel EchoStar Communications and its Dish Network are now offering The Pentagon Channel. Launched in May 2004, the network will provide information about the Defense Department and military 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Programming includes “Around the Services,” an insider’s view about what is happening in […]
DirecTV playing hardball with signal pirates Tampering with satellite television service can lead to towering court judgments and costly legal representation. Even the appearance of it can have monetary consequences. In the last two years, satellite television giant DirecTV has filed federal lawsuits against 25,000 people nationally for tapping its signal without paying its monthly […]
OpenTV Builds First Interactive Television Shopping Application for Dish Network and Sharper Image OpenTV Corp. , one of the world’s leading interactive television companies, helped EchoStar Communications Corporation’s DISH Network and The Sharper Image make retail history by developing an iTV commerce application that brings the nation’s first interactive television shopping channel to DISH Network’s […]
BellSouth Reaches 200,000 DIRECTV Customer Milestone BellSouth announced today that more than 200,000 customers have added DIRECTV(R) digital satellite television service to their BellSouth communications services packages since the company began offering the service in August 2004. During the fourth quarter of 2004, BellSouth added almost 109,000 subscribers to its DIRECTV offer. “This significant milestone […]