DISH Network Now Offers Cincinnati Metro Area Local Channels Via Satellite Television.Business/Entertainment Editors LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2000 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): EchoStar's DISH Network See DBS. Brings Competition to Cable -- Along with Hundreds of Channel Choices -- By Offering Local Networks EchoStar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:DISH, DISHP) is pleased to announce that DISH Network(TM) now offers local WCPO-ABC (ch. 9), WKRC-CBS (ch. 12) and WXIX-FOX (ch. 19) satellite television to the 24 counties in the greater metro area of Cincinnati. With the addition of Cincinnati, DISH Network now offers local channels via satellite TV in 32 cities and their metro areas nationwide. DISH Network customers will be able to receive 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. , CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. and FOX network affiliates immediately. DISH Network will add the 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. affiliate, WLWT (ch. 5), when DISH Network is able to obtain retransmission consent on reasonable terms from Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., who owns WLWT-NBC. DISH Network will offer the ABC, CBS and FOX affiliates at no charge until WLWT-NBC can be added to the local channel package. 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 the Cincinnati area in the following metro area counties: Adams, Boone, Bracker, Brown, Butler (north and south), Campbell, Clermont, Clinton, Dearborn, Franklin, Gallatin, Grant, Hamilton, Highland, Inid, Kenton, Mason, Ohio, Owen, Pendleton, Robertson, Switzerland, Ripley, and Warren (north and south). With the addition of Cincinnati, DISH Network currently offers local channels in 32 metro areas, including: Charlotte, N.C.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; 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; Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Fla.; Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla.; Sacramento-Modesto-Stockton, Calif; St. Louis; Portland, Ore., San Diego; Greenville, S.C.; and Indianapolis. DISH Network offers hundreds of satellite television channels with no equipment to buy! DISH Network's Digital Dynamite plans offer customers a satellite television system and hundreds of all-digital satellite TV sports, entertainment and movie channels starting at just $34.99 per month. DISH Network also offers dozens of premium movie channels from HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy THE WORKS, SHOWTIME, STARZ! The New Encore, and Cinemax. For more information, 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 direct broadcast satellite 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 4.3 million customers nationwide. 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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