However, satellite customers with newer systems or interactive receivers have the choice of 'roundups' or local forecasts.

NBA TV is available to 20 million satellite customers.

That window is closer to 70 miles for satellite customers.

Flix is now considered a specialty premium service to satellite customers who subscribe to Showtime Unlimited.

Are satellite customers returning to cable?

Many commercial satellite customers had switched to expendables even before that, due to unresponsiveness to customer concerns by the Shuttle launch system.

It will also be in competition with the Soviet Union, which has recently started marketing its rockets to Western satellite customers.

Extra Innings had about 600,000 cable and satellite customers last year.

The nation's six million direct-broadcast satellite customers will find little, if any, high-definition programming available by satellite.

Fundamentally, satellite customers are much happier than cable customers.