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DIRECTV Offers Local Channels in Nashville

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2000--DIRECTV, Inc., provider of the nation's leading digital television service, announced today the availability of local broadcast network channels via satellite for its DIRECTV® customers in Nashville. Beginning today, all DIRECTV customers in the Nashville designated market area (DMA) will receive a free preview of their local broadcast network channel package.

DIRECTV customers in the Nashville DMA can subscribe to a local channel package that includes WSMV (NBC), WZTV (FOX) and WTVF (CBS). DIRECTV customers can subscribe to their local channel package for $5.99 per month. In addition to local broadcast network channels, a national PBS feed is included in each local channel package at no additional charge. DIRECTV is in active discussion with WKRN (ABC) and will begin broadcasting the station as soon as an agreement is reached.

"The availability of local channels ushers in a new era for DIRECTV, and we are excited to commence our local channel offerings in Nashville,'' said Stephanie A. Campbell, senior vice president, Programming for DIRECTV, Inc. "By offering local channels on DIRECTV, our customers can access entertainment and information that's most relevant to their lives and their community. Now is as good a time as any for consumers in this market to cut cable and choose DIRECTV as their source for home entertainment.''

Local Nashville channels from DIRECTV are available in the following counties:

Kentucky:
ALLEN
CHRISTIAN
CLINTON
LOGAN
MONROE
SIMPSON
TODD
TRIGG

Tennessee:
BEDFORD      DICKSON      LEWIS         PUTNAM        WAYNE
BENTON       FRANKLIN     MACON         ROBERTSON     WHITE
CANNON       GILES        MARSHALL      RUTHERFORD    WILLIAMSON
CHEATHAM     HENRY        MAURY         SMITH         WILSON
CLAY         HICKMAN      MONTGOMERY    STEWART
COFFEE       HOUSTON      MOORE         SUMNER
DAVIDSON     HUMPHREYS    OVERTON       TROUSDALE
DECATUR      JACKSON      PERRY         VAN BUREN
DEKALB       LAWRENCE     PICKETT       WARREN

Local channels are delivered to DIRECTV customers in the Nashville area from DIRECTV's primary orbital slot at 101 degrees West Longitude. As a result, DIRECTV customers can receive their local channels as well as DIRECTV's current lineup of national digital entertainment and information programming through their existing set-top box and 18-inch antenna.