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ArabicDirect™
Service: $25.99/mo
Five Channels of the Best Arabic Programming:
Rotana Cinema is
the largest and richest Arabic movie library in
the world, this channel brings you premium
production films ranging from golden oldies to
the latest blockbusters that have never been
broadcast on TV.
Rotana Zaman
features classic Arabic TV movies, digitally
restored to the best quality available.
Rotana Moossika
features music news, 24-hour videos and a
variety of entertainment related to music.
Orbit Al-Yawm
offers a selection of social, informative,
educational and cultural programs for the whole
family.
Orbit Seen (the Series
Channel) is a 24-hour Arabic theme
channel featuring the best TV series from all of
the Middle East.
DIRECTV Caribbean Programming
HYPE TV: $9.99/mo.
Get connected to Caribbean culture with HYPE
TV.
HYPE TV is the number one television choice for
young people with a passion for all things
Caribbean. Based in Kingston, Jamaica, HYPE TV
delivers culturally-relevant music and
entertainment that appeals to people with ties
to the Caribbean nations, as well as music
aficionados and culture-seekers from around the
globe. HYPE TV reflects the energy and
imagination of one of the most exhilarating
parts of the world.
Chinese Channels on DIRECTV
Choose from 2 different
packages offering programming in Mandarin and Cantonese
from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
JADEWORLD (5-channels): $36.99/mo
Exclusively from DIRECTV, Jadeworld delivers the very
best Chinese-language programming in both Mandarin and
Cantonese, including dramatic series, music, variety,
movies and entertainment, plus daily news from Hong
Kong, China and Taiwan.
The Jade Channel East
caters to the specific viewing habits of East
Coast viewers. Features the most updated Hong
Kong daily news, popular TVB dramas,
entertainment and variety shows, cartoons and
news/travel magazines.
The Jade Channel West
caters to the specific viewing habits of West
Coast viewers. Features the most updated Hong
Kong daily news, popular TVB dramas,
entertainment and variety shows, cartoons and
news/travel magazines.
TVBS is
broadcast live from Taiwan. In addition to
in-depth news coverage throughout the day, TVBS
also features popular talk shows such as
Speaking Your Mind 2100 and News Night Club,
variety shows, dramas and travelogues.
The Chinese Movie
Channel offers the most popular
blockbuster hits featuring your favorite movie
stars. From action thrillers, comedies and
dramas to kung-fu films, The Chinese Movie
Channel has it all.
CCTV-4
features programs that reflect China's history,
culture, economics, politics and people. CCTV-4
brings you closer to China.
To receive Jadeworld
programming, you must have a DIRECTV
Multi-Satellite System.
MandarinDirect II
Service (4 channels): $15.99/mo
Broadcast in Mandarin, this service brings the
news, variety and family shows of Beijing,
Taipei, and Shanghai straight to your living
room with three channels of premier Mandarin
entertainment.
Phoenix North
American Chinese Channel features
up-to-the-minute news, current affairs,
financial market updates, variety shows, and
dramas from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Programs include Good Morning China, City
Complex, Trendy Guide, Perfect Match and
more.
Phoenix InfoNews
is the first foreign satellite channel
delivering independent financial news and
current affairs in Mandarin Chinese 24/7. See
worldwide financial reports, live coverage of
critical events and relevant commentaries on
timely and compelling topics.
MTV Chi is
named for "chi," the Mandarin word for "inner
energy." This delivers the freshest music videos
to come from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, plus
complete coverage of Chinese pop culture.
CTI Zhong Tian
features up-to-the minute news programs and
features, financial information, and a variety
of entertaining programs.
Filipino Channels on DIRECTV
FILIPINODIRECT™ SERVICE:
$32.99/mo
FilipinoDirect™ service features the following channel
in addition to all the channels available with
TFCDirect™:
GMA Pinoy provides
top-rated Philippine Television for Filipino families in
the US. This 24/7 general entertainment channel is
currently the number one station in the Philippines.
TFCDIRECT™ SERVICE: $22.99/mo
TFCDirect™ service features six diverse and entertaining
channels:
The Filipino Channel
boasts top-rated programming for the entire family,
including live news, dramas, comedies, children's shows,
talk shows, hit movies and more.
ABS-CBN News Channel
provides round-the-clock, up-to-the-minute news from the
Philippines, including business reports and informed
discussions of important national issues.
Cinema One Global is
your ticket to a marathon of Pinoy movie blockbusters,
award-winners and classics, plus movie reviews and
interviews with the stars.
Pinoy Central TV
delivers the things you miss from home: regional news,
talk shows and soap operas in your native dialect,
acclaimed shows on Filipino culture and travel, and
coverage of the latest PBA games, NCAA, UAAP, boxing and
more.
DWRR 101.9 means music
galore, from the classics to current hits.
DWRR 101.9 offers
insightful news and commentary from the Philippines'
premier AM radio station, anchored by the country's most
respected journalists.
DIRECTV Greek Programming
News, Sports, Movies, and
More: $14.99/MO.
MEGA Cosmos offers the
very best in Greek Language entertainment television.
24-hour news, sports, movies, dramas, game shows and
more.
Italian Channels on DIRECTV
CalcioDirect™ Service:
$19.99/mo
Italian news and soccer. The new CalcioDirect package
features the following channels as well as Sky TG24:
Fox Soccer Channel offers
prime soccer from Italy's Serie A soccer league with
clubs like Lazio, Lecce, Treviso, and Cagliari live and
exclusive in the US.
GolTV features over 1,500
soccer matches from around the world, including Inter,
AC Milan and Juventus.
Sky TG24: $9.99/mo
Round-the-Clock Italian News Coverage.
Sky TG24 provides an
objective viewpoint on happenings in Italy and around
the world. Besides bulletins, there are also in–depth
features, reports and debates.
Korean Channels on DIRECTV
KoreanDirect™ II Service:
$31.99/mo
Offers five channels of entertainment, news, and
information; all the channels of KoreanDirect service
plus the following channel:
SBS Plus offers the best
of Korean “Halliyu” for a variety of popular classic and
current dramas, plus unique features like original
programs, special scheduling and movie programs 24 hours
a day.
KoreanDirect™ Service: $26.99/mo
Offers four channels of entertainment, news, and
information:
MBC is a 24–hour Korean
broadcast network offering popular drama, live news,
variety shows, children's programs and award–winning
documentaries was the most watched channel in 2002 (TNS
Korea).
SBS is a 24–hour–a–day
Korean TV channel that provides information and
entertainment with its unique mix of variety shows, hit
dramas and up–to–the–minute news from Korea.
YTN is Korea's first
round–the–clock news network with up–to–the–minute news
and events coverage in the country and around the world.
MTV K is the first music
and lifestyle channel for young Korean Americans. MTV K
delivers the freshest music videos to come from Korea,
plus complete coverage of Korean pop culture.
CTS: $4.99/mo
Quality Korean Christian Programming
CTS offers 24 hours of
Korean Christian programming, including sermons,
testimonies, praise and worship, documentaries and news.
Russian Channels on DIRECTV
RussianDirect™ Service:
$29.99/MO.
Includes 4 channels:
Channel One Russia Worldwide
(C1RW)
The most known TV brand in Russian television,
Channel One offers a diverse mix of programming
including news and documentaries, talk shows,
feature film presentations, game shows and sports,
plus your favorite hosts.
Channel One is also available as a single channel
subscription. See below for details.
Dom Kino
Enjoy non-stop movies in Russian. You'll see movie
hits of the past and blockbusters of the present,
the best TV series and time honored classics and
programs about people who make movies. Dom Kino
offers viewers a wide variety of film entertainment.
Muzika Pervogo
The first music channel in North America in Russian
and Ukrainian. See quality entertainment, music
videos, hit parades and much more for the younger
Russian and Ukrainian-speaking audiences.
Vremya
Retro Channel: A TV channel with the unique mix of
programs from '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s, Vremya
presents your favorite TV hosts of the past, actors,
musicians, athletes, scientists and politics of
those nostalgic times.
Russian Channels Available a la Carte:
RTR Planeta: $14.99/mo
With the best of its leading channels "Kultura" and
"Rossiya", this channel features cultural
programming, news, sports, feature films and
documentaries, and delivers them to all
Russian-speaking people around the world.
CHANNEL 1 RUSSIA WORLDWIDE
(C1RW): $14.99/mo
Channel One is available as a single channel
subscription for $14.99/mo. or as part of the
RussianDirect™ service for $29.99/mo.
The most known TV brand in Russian television,
Channel One offers a diverse mix of programming
including news and documentaries, talk shows,
feature film presentations, game shows and sports,
plus your favorite hosts.
South Asian Channels on DIRECTV
DD India is the 24/7
international service of Doordarshan, India's state
broadcaster. The channel offers live news, films, music,
drama, education, public service, comedy (traditional
and contemporary) and variety of regional language
programs tailored to serve all ages of the Indian
audience living in the United States.
DD India is available free of charge to all
DIRECTV customers who subscribe to any of South Asian
packages.
HindiDirect™II
service: $39.99/mo
Features Eight Channels of South Asian Programming,
including all the channels of HindiDirect™
service (channels listed below), plus:
FILMY is a DIRECTV
exclusive and your one-stop spot for everything
Bollywood with both traditional and contemporary
programming including movies, film news, celebrity
gossip, music videos and exciting original content.
Filmy can also be purchased a la carte for $19.99/mo.
HindiDirect™
service: $29.99/mo
Features Seven Channels of Diverse South Asian
Programming:
Star One unleashes the
next generation of Hindi entertainment with an
innovative, diverse mix of programming and cutting edge
production values that appeal to urban, upwardly mobile
Indian audiences. STAR ONE parades an array of original
programs across a range of entertainment genres - action
/ thrillers, comedy, drama, youth, game / format shows,
lifestyle and original movies made for television.
Star Plus India's number 1
cable channel for four years, STAR PLUS dominates every
entertainment genre and time band across the day. The
channel features the top 40 programs on cable in India
every week and regularly features 50 out of 50 top shows
on cable.
Star News offers viewers
24-hour Hindi news that is relevant to today's Indians.
It covers the full spectrum of news ranging from
politics to business, investigative reports to consumer
issues, crime to the environment. STAR NEWS keep viewers
across the globe fully informed and engaged.
MTV Desi is the
pop–culture destination for music videos, news and
events from a Desi point of view.
NDTV offers
up–to–the–minute news coverage from India's most
respected news company.
AASTHA Broadcasting
Network: $14.99/mo
Offers the following channel:
AASTHA Broadcasting Network
is India's most prominent spiritual network
featuring spiritual discourses, socio-spiritual-cultural
ceremonies and events, meditation techniques and
devotional music. It charts the holy places of
pilgrimage, elucidates on traditional festivals and
focuses on Indian vedic sciences like ayurveda, yoga,
astrology, crystal therapy and aromatherapy. AASTHA
broadcasts programming in Hindi, Gujarati and English.
TeluguDirect™ Service:
$14.99/mo
Offers the following channel:
ETV Telugu airs general
entertainment, including serials, feature films, music
programs, children's and educational programming and
specials during festivals specific to Andhra Pradesh.
TamilDirect™
service: $14.99/mo.
Offers the following channel:
VIJAY is one of the most
popular entertainment channels in India broadcasting in
Tamil. VIJAY is tailor-made to cater to the distinctive
culture of Tamil Nadu, and features an excellent mix of
dramas, soaps, comedy, music, and movies, plus talk
shows and debates on topical issues.
GujaratiDirect™ Service:
$14.99/mo
Offers the following channel:
ETV Gujarati is a 24/7
channel that airs a wide variety of programming with
serials, news, feature films, music programs, children's
and educational programming and specials during
festivals specific to the region of Gujarat in Western
India.
NDTV: $14.99/mo
NDTV offers
up–to–the–minute, 24/7 news with unparalleled coverage
of the latest in domestic and international news.
BanglaDirect™ Service:
$14.99/mo
Offers the following channel:
ETV Bangla is Bengali
general entertainment programming with the best serials,
news, feature films, music programs, children's and
educational programming and specials during festivals
specific to this region of West Bengal.
DIRECTV Ukrainian
Programing
Studio 1+1
International: $14.99/mo
Studio 1+1 International
showcases Ukrainian culture with a wide
selection of news, cinema, talk shows and
contemporary cultural programming for everyone
in the family.
Vietnamese
Channels on DIRECTV
VIETNAMESE DIRECT™
III: $24.99/mo
VietnameseDirect III service offers all the
channels of VietnameseDirect and
VietnameseDirect II as well as the following
channel:
TVB Vietnam
features the best TVB dramas and telemovies from
past and present dubbed in Vietnamese with a
variety of genres including martial arts,
costumes, episodic, modern action and situation
comedy.
VIETNAMESE DIRECT™
II: $22.99/mo
VietnameseDirect II service offers the following
channel in addition to SBTN:
VHN-TV offers
news, drama, education, public service, comedy
(traditional and contemporary), entertainment
and variety programs. Dedicated to education and
awareness, the channel features Vietnamese
customs and traditions and focuses on
maintaining family values.
VIETNAMESE DIRECT™:
$14.99/mo
VietnameseDirect™ features the
new Saigon Broadcasting Television Network (SBTN),
the first and only 24-hour Vietnamese
programming network in America, broadcasting
news, sports, variety, movies, talk shows,
children's programming and more - all in
Vietnamese.
NEWS, SPORTS, &
INFORMATION
Popular new programs each week reach key family
and community decision makers, primarily men and
seniors. Viewers can watch up-to-the-minute news
reports SBTN News and Good Morning Saigon from
SBTN. Additional popular nnews programs include
Story of the Day and Law and Society, a legal
show featuring lawyers and other participants
who debate the latest issues facing Vietnamese
Americans.
DRAMA & MOVIES
Vietnamese daytime audiences love a good story.
And with so many senior members of the family
traditionally living in the same household with
their younger families, the demand is huge!
MUSIC, VARIETY, &
CHILDREN'S SHOWS
Each night, the evening kicks off with a range
of music videos aimed at young, educated and
assimilated Vietnamese Americans. Asia
Entertainment specials featuring Vietnamese pop
idol TRISH and features like Lam Quynh's Music
Show offer the best pop, alternative, and
hip-hop performers.
SPORTS
Fans can see weekly sports action highlights,
interviews with top players and full sports
event coverage in soccer and martial arts.
There's even a program for chess devotees. The
evening block solidifies the male audience
component with the highly popular Sports and
Entertainment News show.
MOVIES
Movies from Vietnam, China and Korea captivate
the whole family! From action movies to evening
soaps and full-fledged epic, period dramas
celebrating Asia's rich and colorful history,
evening viewers get a feast of entertainment.
MBC dramas from Korea bridge all generations and
provide high production values, fascinating
characters and intricate plots. One of its
highly-rated dramas was Hug June, a moving story
of a court physician during the Yi Dynasty.
VARIETY AND
ENTERTAINMENT CREATED IN THE U.S.
SBTN original programs bring viewers laughs and
good times in the form of entertaining comedies
and variety shows. Original serial situation
comedies like Vietnamese Family Life in America
and shows like Animal World Eyes Witness will
keep families entertained for hours.
International Sports Programming on DIRECTV
Love cricket? Then you'll love the
CricketTicket™ package, part of the
DIRECTV WorldDirect™ service. With
CricketTicket, you'll be able to watch
up to 120 days of live international
cricket from around the world in one
convenient package. If you just want to
watch one tour, we also offer
CricketTicket on a pay per tour basis.
Prices vary per tour.
CricketTicket™
Watch matches from Australia, New
Zealand, Zimbabwe, West Indies, Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa and
England.
CricketTicket™
India
View all matches from CricketTicket,
plus exclusive competitions between
India and South Africa, Sri Lanka, and
the West Indies.
Take Advantage of the 2006 Season 3
CricketTicket package for only $249.99,
the 2006 CricketTicket India package for
$319.
Setanta Sports
Round-the-clock coverage of distinctly
European and international football
(soccer), rugby and other sports. Watch
LIVE broadcasts together with the
English Premier League, Euro 2008
Qualifiers, and UEFA Champions League.
Events Shown on Setanta Sports:
