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2. DirecTV satellite fleet - Wikipedia

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   DirecTV-1R was launched on October 9, 1999, aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL launch vehicle. It was the first satellite used to broadcast local channels for DirecTV in major DMAs , and was positioned at 101.2° W when it first entered service. [ 29 ]

3. DirecTV Ditches Dish Deal - AOL

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   UPDATED, 11/22, 9:45 a.m. PT: The U.S.’s two satellite TV providers aren’t getting hitched anymore, at least anytime soon. DirecTV on Thursday formally announced that it was nixing the ...

4. Will DirecTV and Dish Merge? Satellite TV Operators Are ... - AOL

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   DirecTV and Dish have launched internet-delivered pay-TV packages, but those have not offset losses on the satellite side. Together, DirecTV and Dish have nearly 20 million customers, which is ...

5. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Owners of cable systems paid $10,000 to install 3-meter dishes to receive TV signals in C band. In 1976 Taylor Howard built an amateur system, which consisted of a converted military surplus radar dish and a satellite receiver designed and built by Howard, for home satellite reception.

6. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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   Mounted on brackets at the dish's focal point is a device called a feedhorn or collector. [12] The feedhorn is a section of waveguide with a flared front-end that gathers the signals at or near the focal point and conducts them to a probe or pickup connected to a low-noise block downconverter (LNB). [13]

7. DIRECTV ends plans to aquire DISH & Sling TV - AOL

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   (WJET/WFXP) — After months of negotiations, DIRECTV announced that it has terminated its deal to acquire DISH DBS, the parent company of DISH, and its streaming service, Sling TV, in a multi ...

8. Satellite dish - Wikipedia

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   A satellite dish is a dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive or transmit information by radio waves to or from a communication satellite. The term most commonly means a dish which receives direct-broadcast satellite television from a direct broadcast satellite in geostationary orbit .

9. DirecTV and Dish have spent years trying to merge. It's ... - AOL

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   Another big media acquisition has finally been confirmed. Satellite TV provider DirecTV (T, TPG) said Monday it will buy rival Dish Network (), including Dish's streaming brand Sling TV, through a ...