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2. Television receive-only - Wikipedia

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   TVRO systems were originally marketed in the late 1970s. On October 18, 1979, the FCC began allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license. [1] The dishes were nearly 20 feet (6.1 m) in diameter, [2] were remote controlled, [3] and could only pick up HBO signals from one of two satellites. [citation ...

3. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Home2US Communications Inc. also offers several ethnic channels on SES 1 at 101° W, as well as other free and pay-TV channels. Many religious broadcasters reach the DTH and distribution markets with unencrypted DVB-S television and radio channels on Galaxy 19.

4. Galaxy 1 - Wikipedia

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   Galaxy 1 was the first in a line of Galaxy communications satellites launched by Hughes Communications in 1983. It helped fill a hole in satellite broadcasting bandwidth created by the loss of RCA's Satcom 3 in 1979. [ 1 ]

5. DirecTV Is Buying Dish for $1, Joining a Rare Club of ... - AOL

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   DirecTV will write a check for one whole U.S. dollar — 100 cents — to buy onetime rival Dish Network and its Sling TV business. Of course, that’s not the only financial component of the ...

6. DirecTV to acquire Dish Network, Sling TV for $1 - AOL

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   DirecTV agreed to assume Dish's net debt and pay just $1 for Dish's satellite TV business and streaming service Sling TV — a startling admission about the fading prospects of the once prominent ...

7. DirecTV agrees to buy Dish for $1 - AOL

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   Under the deal, DirecTV will pay Dish’s owner, EchoStar, just $1 for Dish in exchange for assuming its billions of dollars in debt. Private equity firm TPG, meanwhile, will acquire AT&T’s ...

8. Satellite television by region - Wikipedia

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   The NTV Russia news company, owned by Gazprom, broadcasts the NTV Plus package to 560,000 households, reaching over 1.5 million viewers. Tricolor TV (Russian: Триколор ТВ) the biggest satellite television operator. It broadcasts a pack of TV channels in the European part of Russia and most of Siberian, Ural and Far East regions.

9. Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion - Wikipedia

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   MacDougall swung the 30-foot (9.1 m) transmission dish back into its storage position, which aimed it at the location of Galaxy 1, the satellite that carried HBO. [15] [16] Locating the satellite coordinates was not of great difficulty for MacDougall as frequencies were widely published in manuals and enthusiast magazines. [5]