DirecTV now carrying HD locals in 100 markets
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 9th 2008 10:38PM
posted Oct 9th 2008 10:38PM
While DISH Network just recently hit market number 70, DirecTV is throwing itself a party after reaching the big 100. With the addition of Columbia-Jefferson City, Missouri and Evansville, Indiana, the satcaster can now claim to have HD locals available in a hundred US regions. The milestone means that some 83% of the US can now get DirecTV and their HD locals sans an OTA antenna, and if all goes to plan, it'll hit 121 cities by the year's end. We suppose a round of golf claps is in order.
Lexington, KY, please! Come on, DirecTV, I applied for a local waiver, and was turned down. I put up an antenna and only get two of the four national HD channels. We're one of the top 100 markets, so bring on the HD locals!
Up until just recently when I was talking to a colleague I hadn't realized how few markets were served up in HD by Direct. It really is a shame that it has taken so long, and still there are a lot of customers being left out.
http://www.hdupdate.com
Eureka California please!
Instead of being a product-placement entity to gain marketing dollars, EngadgetHD should consider being critical for once and report how many of those markets actually have more than 50-75% HD channel representation. I know Atlanta has about half the stations with zero effort on DirecTV's part to making that any better.