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NEW YORK, Aug 11, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DIRECTV, the world's most popular video service, and Google announced today a strategic partnership in which Google will become the sales representative for a broad selection of advertising inventory on several cable networks carried on DIRECTV. As a result of this partnership with DIRECTV national satellite inventory on Bloomberg, Fox Business, Centric, Fuel, ...

DISH Network isn’t exactly hitting its stride with telco resale partners. A couple years back, they lost their prized AT&T partnership and now history is repeating itself as CenturyLink has decided to switch DBS resale partners from DISH to ...

DirecTV announced enhancements to its venerable NFL Sunday Ticket programming package. As more specialized NFL programming, namely the Red Zone channel, makes its way to DirecTV competitors, they are keen on adding incremental value to their exclusive package. Enhancements ...

NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DIRECTV, the world's most popular video service and Panasonic, a world leader in 3D TV technology, ushered in a new age in the rapid growth of 3D entertainment for the home with the launch today of three 3D channels, including n3D™ powered by Panasonic – a linear channel dedicated exclusively to 3D programming and ...

The whole home DVR feature is often viewed as one of the few tangible differentiators in a video service provider’s competitive tool box. After all, most video services look about the same, suffering from the famous ‘me too’ indictment, where new video entrants offer very little difference over established ...

More Than 97 Percent of U.S. TV Homes Will Have Access to Local Channels from DIRECTV; Roll Out of New Local Markets to Begin in June EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 17, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DIRECTV, the world's most popular video service, will begin the rollout of 16 new HD local-channel markets next month, providing more than 97 percent of U.S. ...

DirecTV and Alcatel-Lucent have partnered on an interesting project. They are delivering video over a closed IP network to the Shelter Creek multi-dwelling unit (MDU) complex in San Bruno, Calif. The offering, which combines DirecTV’s IPAdvantage platform and an Alcatel-Lucent VDSL2 ...

National Advertisers Will be Able to Reach Nearly One-Third of U.S. Pay-TV Households EL SEGUNDO, Calif. & ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Apr 26, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DIRECTV Group and DISH Network L.L.C., the leading digital television service providers in the United States, today announced the launch of the Advanced Satellite Advertising Platform (ASAP), a new interactive advertising platform giving national television advertisers ...

One of the more interesting dynamics surrounding the announced CenturyLink-Qwest merger is the implications for video and IPTV. Generally speaking, if you ask the IPTV vendor ecosystem, a boon would be welcomed. Maybe the impact won’t be along traditional IPTV lines. As industry analyst ...

Beginning in June, DIRECTV Will Debut ESPN 3D with 2010 FIFA World Cup Matches EL SEGUNDO, Calif., and BRISTOL, Conn., Mar 29, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Continuing to lead the 3D revolution by offering customers new dimensions in sports programming, DIRECTV will add ESPN 3D, the industry's first 3D sports television network, to its upcoming 3D lineup that will offer three ...