DIRECTV added local HDTV channels in Milwaukee, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and St. Louis on Wednesday May 17th.

DIRECT TV satellite TV, the nation’s largest direct-broadcast satellite provider, is engaged in a nationwide expansion of their HDTV programming -- one that will give them the ability to deliver more than 1,500 local HDTV channels and more than 150 national HDTV networks by 2007.

DIRECT TV satellite TV currently offers local HDTV broadcast channels in 24 cities, with plans to launch in an additional 26 cities later this year.