DIRECTV provides digital television entertainment in the United States and Latin America. The company engages in acquiring, promoting, selling, and distributing digital entertainment programming primarily through satellite to residential and commercial subscribers. It offers direct-to-home digital television services, as well as multi-channel video programming distribution services. The company also provides access to various channels of digital-quality video entertainment and audio programming; digital video recorders; high-definition (HD) television channels and 3D channels; video-on-demand (VOD) service under the DIRECTV CINEMA name; and local channels in HD to households customers. In addition, it provides premium professional and collegiate sports programming, such as the NFL SUNDAY TICKET package, which allows subscribers to view NFL games, as well as offers related broadband, HD, VOD, interactive, and mobile services. Further, it provides local and international digital-quality video entertainment and audio programming under the DIRECTV and SKY brands. Additionally, the company owns and operates three regional sports networks based in Seattle, Washington; Denver, Colorado; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania under the ROOT SPORTS brand name. As of February 28, 2013, it served approximately 20 million customers in the United States and approximately 15 million customers in Latin America. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in El Segundo, California.

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