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Home Theater April 23, 2005 Darryl Wilkinson	VOOM Doom Brings DIRECTV Boom A week before VOOM satellite service is discontinued, DirecTV offers a deal to VOOM customers.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2007 David Lee Smith	Fool on the Street: DirecTV Is Flying Higher High-quality video, savvy sports programming, and targeted growth help DirecTV compete with cable. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2009 Anders Bylund	DirecTV Only Wants the Big Spenders Dish and DirecTV are locked in mortal combat. Will lower prices beat higher quality -- or vice versa?
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Home Theater December 6, 2004 Darryl Wilkinson	Even more HDTV from VOOM The third satellite provider shows it's no also-ran as it gets ready to beef up its already hefty HD channel lineup. The latest order? Five more geostationary telecommunications satellites from Lockheed Martin.
The Motley Fool August 10, 2007 Anders Bylund	Low Churn, Happy DirecTV Investors A little short-term pain leads to lots of long-term cash for DirecTV. Spending more money now on the high-def and DVR boxes they're putting into customers homes, the satellite TV leader knows that this strategy will return higher demand from customers and a higher revenue stream in the future.
Home Theater December 3, 2003	HDTV Sales Jump 50% Price drops, more programming combine to push hardware sales to new heights.
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Home Theater April 26, 2007	TWC Axes Analog Time Warner Cable's Staten Island Project will provide 100 new channels of HDTV to the southernmost borough of New York City.
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The Motley Fool July 30, 2010 David Lee Smith	Comcast's Solid Numbers Merit Your Attention Comcast shares are slowly heading north. Why not take a close look at the company?
The Motley Fool February 16, 2011 Brian Richards	2 Things You Should Know About DIRECTV As it's become costlier to acquire new subscribers, the satellite provider has shifted its focus to higher-end customers.
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BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Grover & Lowry	Satellite's Hot Pursuit Of Cable In the all-out war for subscribers, the satellite industry is clearly winning out over the cable industry.
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The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 David Lee Smith	Cable Tackles the NFL Tired of steadily increasing sports programming charges, cable has booted the NFL Network. Comcast and Time Warner Cable now carry it only on their premium sports packages.
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Home Theater February 10, 2003	Showtime Boosts HD Programming Showtime Networks has announced that it will "substantially increase" its high-definition programming for 2003, with sports events, movies and many of its original series airing in the digital format.
Home Theater August 5, 2008 Mark Fleischmann	Satellite Providers Step Up HD Offerings Both DirecTV and the Dish Network announced last week that they would offer viewers more HD channels. Dish also announced it would do video on demand in 1080p.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2010 David Lee Smith	Avoiding Cable Stocks? You'll Regret It As the economy turns, cable's video subscriber slide will likely halt.
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