AT&T Broadband's Headend in the Sky (HITS) subsidiary, which makes interactive programming available to 275 smaller cable operators via satellite, will soon be offering them an OpenTV platform.

HITS already has a deal with Liberate Technologies and will include OpenTV as an alternative via Motorola DCT-2000 set-top boxes as soon as technical details are worked out.

The OpenTV package is slated to include not only the ITV middleware, but interactive applications such as games, news, weather and horoscopes, including the PlayJam game channel from OpenTV content subsidiary Static 2358.

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