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Hughes Electronics Corporation was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to General Motors for $5.2 billion. Surviving parts of Hughes Electronics are today known as DirecTV Group, while the automotive divisions became Aptiv.
DirecTV Stream (formerly DirecTV Now and AT&T TV) is a premium streaming multichannel television service offered in the United States by DirecTV.. The brand offers pay television service without a contract, with the service utilizing a customer's existing streaming TV hardware, such as a Roku or Amazon Fire TV device, and is also available on some smart TV systems like Tizen OS by Samsung ...
DirecTV, LLC is an American multichannel video programming distributor based in El Segundo, California.Originally launched on June 17, 1994, its primary service is a digital satellite service serving the United States.
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 ]
Analog DBS services, however, existed prior to DirecTV and were still operational in continental Europe until April 2012. [1] At the time of DirecTV's launch in 1994, the DVB-S digital satellite system in use in the majority of the world had not yet been standardised, the Thomson developed DSS system was used instead.
T10 (formerly DirecTV-10) is a Boeing model 702 direct broadcast satellite that provides high-definition television (HDTV) to DirecTV subscribers in North America. [1] It was launched by International Launch Services on July 7, 2007 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard an Enhanced Proton Breeze-M rocket. [2]
PrimeStar was an American direct broadcast satellite broadcasting company formed in November 1990 by seven cable television companies including Comcast Corp. and TCI Communications Corp. [1] PrimeStar was the first medium-powered DBS system in the United States but slowly declined in popularity with the arrival of DirecTV in 1994 and Dish Network in 1996.
Audience Network (also known as Audience from 2016 until 2020) [1] was an American pay television channel that was owned by AT&T.It featured a mix of original and acquired series, specials, and feature films.