When we say Satellite Directv, the first thing that comes into our mind is that it provides television and audio services to its millions of subscribers via satellite transmissions. Direct TV offers various services to its subscribers, services such as many local television stations, broadcast television, and satellite radio services. Satellite Directv called its own network as “The 101 Network”. Dish network and cable providers are the major competitors of Direct T V.

Subscribers of Direct TV use reception antennas that are much smaller compared to first generation services that make used of antennas several meters across. Customers who bought Direct TV equipment will is subscribe to several packages of Direct TV programs in which they will have to pay a monthly fee. Direct T V also offers pay per view events and movies where a subscriber can order.

In June 1994, the Satellite Directv service was first launched and to date it has over 18 million subscribers in United States, the Caribbean, and some part in Latin America.