DISH Network Now Offers Charlotte, N.C., Metro Area Local Channels Via Satellite Television.Business Editors, Entertainment Writers LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000 EchoStar's DISH Network See DBS. Brings Competition to Cable - Along with Hundreds of Channel Choices - By Offering Local ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , FOX and Soon CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. EchoStar Communications Corporation EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) is the parent company of DISH Network and the maintainer of the satellite fleet that provides the signal that DISH Network markets. (Nasdaq: DISH, DISHP) is pleased to announce that beginning today DISH Network(TM) will offer local WSOC-ABC (Ch. 9), WCNC-NBC (Ch. 36), WCCB-FOX (Ch. 18) and soon WBTV-CBS (Ch. 3) by satellite television to 22 counties in the greater metro area of Charlotte, N.C. With the addition of Charlotte, DISH Network now offers local channels via satellite TV in 27 cities and their metro areas nationwide. DISH Network will begin broadcasting WBTV-CBS by May, 2000. With final passage of satellite TV legislation by Congress last December, DISH Network can now provide cable customers an affordable and complete alternative by offering local ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX network channels for a package price of only $4.99 per month. A national PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, channel can be purchased for an additional $1 per month. DISH Network also plans to offer popular independent network channels in some markets. DISH Network offers local channels to Charlotte in the following metro area counties: Alexander, Anson, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Chester, Chesterfield, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lancaster, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Richmond, Rowan, Stanly, Union, Watauga and York. With the addition of Charlotte, DISH Network currently offers local channels in 27 metro areas, including: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; Los Angeles; Chicago; Philadelphia; San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose; Boston; Dallas-Ft. Worth; Washington, D.C.; Detroit; Atlanta; Seattle-Tacoma; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Miami-Ft. Lauderdale; Phoenix; Denver; Pittsburgh; Nashville; Salt Lake City; Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo.; Houston; Cleveland; and Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Fla.; Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla.; Sacramento-Modesto-Stockton, Calif; St. Louis and Portland, Ore. DISH Network is currently offering every cable customer a FREE DISH 500 satellite TV system and a FREE installation with a one-year commitment of only $39.98 per month in programming. This special offer is available through April 30, 2000. DISH Network's new DISH 500 satellite TV system offers local networks, as well as hundreds of all-digital channel choices using a single small dish. DISH Network offers popular sports, news, entertainment programming and dozens of premium movie channels, as well as foreign-language channels, including DISH Latino, DISH Network's comprehensive all-Spanish-language package. For more information about receiving your local channels along with hundreds of channels of popular satellite television programming, a FREE DISH 500 satellite TV system and FREE installation, visit www.dishnetwork.com, call 1-800-333-DISH (3474), or contact your local DISH Network retailer. DISH Network is EchoStar's state-of-the-art DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) A one-way TV broadcast service from a communications satellite to a small round or oval dish antenna no larger than 20" in diameter. system with the capacity to offer customers 500 channels of digital video and CD-quality audio programming as well as fully MPEG-2/DVB compliant hardware and installation. DISH Network, a trademark of EchoStar Communications Corporation, currently serves over 3.4 million customers nationwide. DISH Network was ranked number one in customer satisfaction among satellite/cable TV subscribers by J.D. Power and Associates in 1999. EchoStar is included in the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX NDX Index NDX Index (File Name Extension) NDX Northern Document Exchange NDX Index File ) which contains the largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. . For more information, contact 1-800-333-DISH (3474) or visit www.dishnetwork.com. |
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