DISH Network Satellite Television Offers Albuquerque-Santa Fe, N.M., Metro-Area Local Channels.Business and Entertainment Editors LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 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. : EchoStar's DISH Network Brings Competition to Cable 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. and FOX! Customers Can Choose From Hundreds of Channels, Including DISH LATINO DOS Complete Spanish-Language Television Package! EchoStar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:DISH,DISHP) is pleased to announce that beginning today, DISH Network(TM)will offer local KOAT-ABC (Ch. 7), KRQE-CBS (Ch. 13), KOB-NBC (Ch. 4), and KASA-FOX (Ch. 2) by satellite television to 32 counties in the greater metro area of Albuquerque-Santa Fe, N.M. 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 several markets. DISH Network will offer local channels in the following counties in New Mexico This is a list of the thirty-three counties in the U.S. state of New Mexico. There were originally nine counties formed in 1852. Santa Ana County, New Mexico Territory, one of the nine original counties, was annexed in 1876 to Bernalillo County, New Mexico. , Colorado and Arizona: -- NEW MEXICO: Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, De Baca, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Harding, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Luna, McKinley, Mora, North Lea, Otero, Rio Arriba, San Juan, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance and Valencia -- ARIZONA: North Apache -- COLORADO: Montezuma, La Plata and Costilla With the addition of Albuquerque-Santa Fe, DISH Network offers local channels via satellite TV to a total of 34 cities and their metro areas nationwide, including: Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago; Cincinnati; Cleveland; Dallas-Ft. Worth; Denver; Detroit; Greenville-Spartanburg-Ashville-Anderson, S.C.; Houston; Indianapolis; Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo.; Los Angeles; Miami-Ft. Lauderdale; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Nashville; 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 ; Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Fla.; Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Portland, Ore., Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Sacramento-Modesto-Stockton, Calif.; Salt Lake City; San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. ; San Diego; San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose; Seattle-Tacoma; St. Louis; Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla., and Washington, D.C. Customers who choose one of DISH Network's Digital Dynamite plans have no equipment to buy and receive an in-home service plan! Starting at $34.99 per month, Digital Dynamite offers over a hundred all-digital sports, entertainment and movie channels! DISH LATINO and DISH LATINO DOS programming package offers an extensive selection of the best all-digital Spanish-language news, sports, movies and music channels, such as TV AZTECA, Cine Latino, HTV HTV H-II Transfer Vehicle HTV Harlech Television (Wales, UK) HTV Hrvatska Televizija (Croatian television) HTV Heidenheimer Tarifverbund (German) HTV Habitual Traffic Violator , FOX Sports World en Espanol and other popular networks, starting at only $19.99 per month. For more information about receiving your local channels along with hundreds of channels of popular satellite television programming, visit www.dishnetwork.com, call 1-800/333-DISH (3474), or contact your local DISH Network retailer. REPORTERS: To interview a DISH Network retailer or DISH Network customer in your area, please contact Rebecca Laurie at 303/723-2011. 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 5 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 and 2000. 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, visit www.dishnetwork.com. |
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