DISH Network Satellite TV Adds WGN-TV Chicago to Local Channel Lineup.Business & Entertainment Editors LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2000 EchoStar's DISH Network 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. , CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. , 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 Now Local WGN-TV for Chicago Customers with Cubs, White Sox and Chicago Bulls Games 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 today that DISH Network(TM) has added the popular Warner Bros.(WB) affiliate WGN-TV to its lineup of local network offerings via satellite television in Chicago for no additional charge. WGN-TV (ch. 9) offers top local news programming and acclaimed shows from the WB such as "Felicity," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Roswell" and "Dawson's Creek," as well syndication hits "Friends" and "Drew Carey," the highly rated "WGN Morning News WGN Morning News is a popular morning news program aired on WGN-TV in Chicago. It airs from Monday-Friday 5:00-9:00 a.m. CST. It does not air on WGN's superstation signal. ," renowned kids programming such as "The Bozo Super Sunday Show," plus a full schedule of Chicago Bulls, Cubs and White Sox games. Including WGN-TV, DISH Network currently offers WLS-ABC (ch. 7), WBBM-CBS (ch. 2), WMAQ-NBC (ch. 5), and WFLD-FOX (ch. 32) to 16 counties in the Chicago metro area 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. These counties include: Cook, De Kalb, Du Page, Grundy, Jasper, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, La Porte, La Salle, Lake, Lake (north), McHenry, Newton, Porter and Will. With final passage of satellite TV legislation by Congress last November, DISH Network now provides cable customers an affordable alternative by offering local ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX network channels, plus some independent and super stations via satellite TV. DISH Network currently offers local channels in 30 metro areas, including: New York; 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.; Indianapolis; Charlotte, N.C.; Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville, N.C.; and San Diego. DISH Network offers affordable programming packages, such as America's Top 40 channel package for only $19.99 per month, America's Top 100 CD channel package for only $29.99 per month and America's Top 150 channel package for only $39.99 per month. Consumers can receive local networks via a DISH Network DISH 500 satellite TV system, as well as receive hundreds of all-digital sports, news, entertainment and premium movie channels. DISH Network also offers dozens of foreign-language channels, including DISH Latino, DISH Network's comprehensive all-Spanish-language package, using a single small dish. DISH Network also offers a WGN WGN Wellington WGN White Gaussian Noise WGN World's Greatest Newspaper (Chicago, IL, USA) WGN World Gastroenterology News WGN We Got Nomar WGN World's Greatest Network WGN Wireless Network Gateway WGN Wagon Superstation channel in America's Top 100 CD programming package. 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 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 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 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. 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