DISH Network Offers Popular Irish Sport -- Hurling -- On Pay-Per-View; DISH-On-Demand Provides Championship Games of Hurling, Traditional Irish Field Sport.Sports Editors LITTLETON, Colo.--(BW SportsWire)--Sept. 1, 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 NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DISH, DISHP) announced today that DISH Network See DBS. (TM) satellite television will broadcast the final championship games of hurling, a traditional Irish field sport. Hurling uses a ball, called a sliotar, which is carried, caught or hurled on a hurley, or stick, into the opponent's goal. Hurling is dubbed as one of the fastest field games in the world. The hurling finals will be broadcast live from Croke Park Croke Park (Irish: Páirc an Chrócaigh) in Dublin, Ireland is the largest sports stadium in Ireland and the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), Ireland's biggest sporting organisation. in Dublin, featuring the Minor Hurling Finals and the Senior Hurling Finals.
Date: Sunday, Sept. 10, 2000
Time: LIVE broadcast at 8 a.m. EDT
Channel: 456 (channel 536 on 61.5 degrees West Longitude)
Price: $29.95
How to Order: DISH Network customers can order via their remote
control or call DISH-On-Demand at 1-877/363-EVNT
(3868).
TV REPORTERS: VIDEO CLIPS OF THIS UNIQUE SPORT ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. DISH-on-Demand also offers world TV premiere movies, concerts and a variety of sporting events. For more information about pay-per-view events on DISH-On-Demand, visit www.dishnetwork.com. DISH Network is EchoStar's state-of-the-art direct broadcast satellite system with the capacity to offer 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 about DISH Network, visit www.dishnetwork.com or call 1-800/333-DISH (3474). |
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