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Satellite-to-Home Broadcasting to Be Offered: Thomson Consumer Electronics, which make RCA and GE televisions, said it will help launch a satellite-to-home TV broadcasting system through a venture with the Hughes Electronics unit of General Motors Corp. Thomson, owned by French electronics concern Thomson SA, will make the satellite receiving dishes, TV set decoders and other technology for the system, which is to begin operating in early 1994. DirecTv will be able to provide more than 100 channels to 18-inch satellite dishes installed outside homes. It will be available nationwide, providing service to homes that cannot get cable TV and offering another choice for those that do.