DirecTV Starship to Broadcast NFL Network

No, this isn’t something from Star Wars, although it does sound an awful lot like it. Tampa, Orlando, and St. Petersburg, Florida residents who subscribe to Comcast, Bright House, or Time Warner Cable may have been unable to watch games broadcasted on the NFL Network due to having the channel on a premium package, blacking out the games, or just simply not carrying the channel on their network. Well, for those who live in these affected neighborhoods, you’ll now be able to look to the sky and watch the games. DirecTV, in a issued statement, said that their DirecTV HD Starship will be up in the air starting Thursday (tonight as of this writing) and will broadcast the games over their 70′x30′ monitor. The blimp is 178 feet long and can stay in the air for six hours if needed. DirecTV is jumping on this opportunity to show how “superior” their digital signal is and to convince people to switch over. Well, I will give them props for doing it in quite a style.

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