Dish Network

DISH Network offers the lowest all-digital TV price in America and continues to look for ways to offer new services, such as high definition TV, to bring even greater programming choices to television viewers nationwide. With over 11.5 million subscribers, Dish Network Satellite is the nation's largest provider of satellite TV service. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, EchoStar Communications Corporation is a public company with approximately 20,000 employees. The Company and its subsidiaries deliver Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) television products and services to customers worldwide.

In 1987, EchoStar filed for a Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) license with the Federal Communications Commission and was granted access to orbital slot 119° West Longitude in 1992. The Company began its move toward providing its own DBS service on December 28, 1995, with the successful launch of EchoStar I. That same year, EchoStar established the DISH Network brand name.

EchoStar II, launched on September 10, 1996, expanded DISH Network's capacity. As EchoStar continued to acquire new orbital slots (61.5°, 148° and 110°), it added to its fleet of satellites. EchoStar III was sent into orbit on October 5, 1997. This was followed by the launch of EchoStar IV on May 8, 1998, and EchoStar V on September 23, 1999. On July 14, 2000, over 10,000 EchoStar employees worldwide gathered to celebrate the launch of EchoStar VI. Today, the nine satellites that make up the EchoStar fleet have the capacity to provide hundreds of channels of digital video, audio and data services via DISH Network service to homes, businesses and schools throughout the United States.

Highlights

DISH Network Satellite TV ranks No. 1 in Customer Satisfaction among Cable/Satellite TV Subscribers by J.D. Power and Associates.

DISH Network becomes the first to use ITV multiple picture-in-picture technology for election coverage in the United States with its DISH Network Election 2004 mosaic.

EchoStar announced plans to offer a Video On Demand (VOD) service, called DISH On Demand, on the company’s new DISH Player-DVR 625.

DISH Network expands High-Definition Package with addition of VOOM Programming.

DISH Network Satellite TV becomes the first in the pay-TV industry to offer 100 international channels with the launch of South Asian channel, America Desi.

DISH Network unveils new high definition satellite TV receiver bundled with new HDTV monitors offering one stop shop for HDTV.