Except that they have never assigned DishLatinoHD channel numbers to anything that wasn't made available within a week.
And, it should be 22 - the 16 new ones, and the 6 previously uplinked ones. All 22 were assigned DishLatinoHD channel numbers on Friday.
Interpretation:
When D* added all its new HD channels, people here expected E* to add a few new HD channels every week or two. This would have seemed nice - even though most of those channels did not have much HD programming yet.
But, Marketing Guys clearly thought that each time E* adds 2 new HD channels, then people will say " but they are still far behind D* " and so there would be no marketing benefit.
Conversely, if they add them all at once, right before they meet with retailers (who also sell D*), they make a big splash and seem more competitive.