[Earl Bonovich]

DIRECTV is 'Home' for Central Americans in the U.S.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2006--DIRECTV is providing Central Americans in the U.S. an open window to their cultures and traditions via Centroamerica TV (CATV), a 24-hour Spanish-language network that is now available exclusively to DIRECTV's Spanish-language programming customers.

Featuring the best programming directly from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama, CATV is available on DIRECTV(R) viewer channel 428 at no extra charge to customers who subscribe to the SELECCION EXTRA(TM) and above programming packages.

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Read the rest of the release at: DirecTV Investor Relations

 

[NYSatelliteman]

This channel was on Dish Network for about 2 years until it disappeared about a year ago when a slate appeared on the screen mentioning funding problems. I wonder if DirecTv decided to fund the channel, or what, but it is clear that DirecTv is poaching programming from DISH-- from CentroAmericaTv to Greek Channels to Russian channels, etc...Interesting, also, is how DirecTv hasn't added any English language programs that Dish has had for years-- like HBO Comedy, Showtime Beyond, Documentary channel, Lime, Voom, etc. But they sure like to steal international programming that they can have exclusively.

 

[quizzer]

This channel was on Dish Network for about 2 years until it disappeared about a year ago when a slate appeared on the screen mentioning funding problems. I wonder if DirecTv decided to fund the channel, or what, but it is clear that DirecTv is poaching programming from DISH-- from CentroAmericaTv to Greek Channels to Russian channels, etc...Interesting, also, is how DirecTv hasn't added any English language programs that Dish has had for years-- like HBO Comedy, Showtime Beyond, Documentary channel, Lime, Voom, etc. But they sure like to steal international programming that they can have exclusively.

Any idea if DTV will add more internationals (south asian) specifically from E*?