If your extended cable programming service contract is getting ready to expire and you are thinking of making the step up to the greater quality and choices that satellite TV programming can bring to you, then you are like the millions before you, who have already made the positive change. Now is the time for you to look over and select from the multitudes of various satellite TV programming packages that all the service providers have for you to choose from.

DirecTV stands at the vanguard of the satellite TV programming industry with the best balanced and the most sensibly compiled programming packages that are available from any service provider. Dish network is the recognized leader in sports programming, with a whopping twenty five channels of fantastic sports channels for you to select from every time you sit down to watch some sporting action on your tube.

They also have some sports channels for you to add onto your programming package if you choose to, that they have exclusive broadcasting rights to. This means that you can�t get them from any other programming service provider and they are only available from DirecTV. The programs on these exclusive channels are NCAA Mega March Madness and NFL Sunday ticket and they are both chock full of games and events and sports commentary and interviews that you are sure to enjoy if you are one of the many die hard sports fans out there.

The Total Choice series of programming packages are a great set to choose from and all of them give you the maximum amount of programming for your money. DirecTV has set the new standard in base level programming packages with their forty channel Family Choice package that is possibly the lowest priced programming package that can be procured from any other programming service provider.

Their Total choice package is the next level of programming package above that and it contains one-hundred and fifty-five channels of great DirecTV programming. Fortunately the Hughes receiver that you get with the free satellite TV system, that DirecTV brings to your home and installs for you at no charge, has a custom menu function as on of its many user friendly features. Use it to set up your own custom menu of all your favorite channels and programs so you can go right to them every time you turn on your TV.

Just up from the Total choice package is the Total Choice Plus package, with one-hundred and eighty-five channels for you to select from when its TV time. Then there is the big daddy of all programming packages and that is the Total Choice Premier programming package and it has the whole nine yards of programming in it.

DirecTV also offers free Sirius satellite radio with all of its programming packages above the Family Choice package so you will have literally hundreds and hundreds of programming choices when you add them all together to select from on your TV in your home or business. Be prepared to make the switch to DirecTV, when your cable service contract expires.