DirecTV
| AT&T Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1990 |
| Seat |
El Segundo , CA , United States
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| management | John T. Stankey (President of AT&T Entertainment and Internet Services) |
| Number of employees | 27,200 (2013) |
| sales | $ 31.75 billion (2013) |
| Branch | Satellite television |
| Website | www.directv.com |
DirecTV is an American television satellite operator and program provider based in El Segundo . It is the largest pay TV operator in the world. DirecTV is owned by the DirecTV Group , which in turn is owned by AT&T , and competes with the DISH Network and local cable operators. The offer was started in 1994.
history
Stanley S. Hubbard founded the United States Satellite Broadcasting (USSB) in 1981 and was a leading proponent of direct broadcast television programs by satellite in the United States. The USSB received five frequencies from the FCC on the coveted satellite position 101 ° West. Hughes Communications , a subsidiary of GM Hughes Electronics, received an additional 27 frequencies on 101 ° West. After Hughes failed in the first attempts to offer such a service, DirecTV was founded and an agreement was reached with USSB to develop the first television satellite system. Hughes / DirecTV then turned to Thomson Consumer Electronics (under the RCA brand) to develop a satellite receiver for up to 175 channels that should get by with a 50 cm antenna. Hughes was awarded the contract to build and launch the new high-performance satellites, and USSB and DirecTV agreed that the new satellites would transmit two separate program packages: USSB's and DirecTV's. In 1994, regular satellite operations began. In 1998 DirecTV bought USSB for US $ 1.3 billion, in 1999 PrimeStar and then parts of Hughes Electronics. The first HD channels were activated in September 2007 , and DirecTV now has around 20 million subscribers (as of 2008).
Current
In 2010, a total of 19.433 million households in the USA and Canada received their programs via DirecTV. In Latin America DirecTV has 6.707 million users. DirecTV also owns the subsidiaries Sky Brazil (93 percent) and PanAmericana (100%) and has a 41 percent stake in Sky Mexico.
In May 2014, AT&T submitted an offer to acquire DirecTV. The integration into the AT&T Group took place on July 24, 2015 and thus the removal from the Nasdaq-100 index .
Satellites
Among other things, the company operates the satellites:
| satellite | Orbital position | Start date | Launcher | Satellite bus | Remarks |
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| DirecTV-1 | 109.8 ° W | Dec 17, 1993 | Ariane 4 | Hughes Electronics HS-601 | Out of service |
| DirecTV-2 | 100.8 ° W | Aug 3, 1994 | Atlas Centaur 2A | Hughes Electronics HS-601 | Out of service |
| DirecTV-3 | 91.1 ° W | June 10, 1995 | Ariane 42-P | Hughes Electronics HS-601 | Out of service |
| DirecTV-6 | 109.5 ° W | 9 Mar 1997 | Atlas Centaur 2AS | Space Systems / Loral LS-1300 | Out of service |
| DirecTV-1R | 72.5 ° W | Oct 10, 1999 | Zenit-3SL | Hughes Electronics HS-601HP | |
| DirecTV-4S | 101.2 ° W | Nov 27, 2001 | Ariane 4 | Hughes Electronics HS-601HP | |
| DirecTV-5 | 109.8 ° W | May 7, 2002 | Proton SL 12 | Space Systems / Loral LS-1300 | |
| Galaxy 3C | 95 ° W | June 15, 2002 | Zenit-3SL | Boeing BSS-702 | |
| DirecTV-7S | 119.0 ° W | May 4, 2004 | Zenit-3SL | Space Systems / Loral LS-1300 | |
| DirecTV-8 | 100.8 ° W | May 22, 2005 | ILS Proton M | Space Systems / Loral LS-1300 | |
| SPACEWAY-1 | 102.8 ° W | Apr 26, 2005 | Zenit-3SL | Boeing BSS-702 | |
| SPACEWAY-2 | 99.2 ° W | Nov 16, 2005 | Ariane 5 ECA | Boeing BSS-702 | |
| DirecTV-9S | 101.1 ° W | Oct 13, 2006 | Ariane 5 ECA | Space Systems / Loral LS-1300 | |
| DirecTV-10 | 102.8 ° W | July 7, 2007 | ILS Proton Breeze M | Boeing BSS-702 | |
| SPACEWAY-3 | 95.0 ° W | Aug 14, 2007 | Ariane 5 ECA | Boeing BSS-702 | |
| DirecTV-11 | 99.2 ° W | 19 Mar 2008 | Zenit-3SL | Boeing BSS-702 | |
| DirecTV-12 | 102.8 ° W | Dec 29, 2009 | Enhanced Proton Breeze-M | Boeing BSS-702 | |
| DirecTV-13 | 110 ° W | Planning stopped | / | Boeing BSS-702 | |
| DirecTV-14 | 99 ° W | Dec 6, 2014 | Ariane 5 ECA | Space Systems / Loral LS-1300 | |
| DirecTV-15 | 103 ° W | May 27, 2015 | Ariane 5 ECA | Astrium Eurostar E3000 | |
| AT&T T-16 | 99-119 ° W | 20th June 2019 | Ariane 5 ECA | Astrium Eurostar E3000 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DIRECTV - Company Profile ( English ) www.directv.com. Retrieved May 9, 2008.
- ↑ US cellular operator AT&T pays almost $ 50 billion for pay TV. In: Spiegel Online. May 19, 2014, accessed December 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Source: DirecTV and Lyngsat
- ↑ VA248 Launch Kit. (PDF; 3.4 MB) Arianespace, June 2019, accessed on June 21, 2019 .