DISH Networkô Now Offers Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Metro Area Local Channels Via Satellite Television

EchoStar's DISH Networkô Brings Competition To Cable - Along With Hundreds Of Channel Choices - By Offering Local ABC, NBC, CBS And FOX

5-Jul-00

EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH, DISHP) announced that DISH Networkô now offers local WTVD-ABC (Ch. 11), WNCN-NBC (Ch. 17), WRAZ-FOX (Ch. 50) and WRAL-CBS (Ch. 5) by satellite television to 23 counties in the greater metro area of Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. With the addition of Raleigh-Durham, DISH Network now offers local channels via satellite TV in 29 cities and their metro areas nationwide. 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 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 Raleigh in the following 23 metro area counties: Hoke, Cumberland, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson, Edgecombe, Halifax, Warren, Mecklenburg, Vance, Franklin, Nash, Wake, Granville, Durham, Orange, Chatham, Lee, Harnett, Moore, Northampton, Person and Johnston. 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 July 31, 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 movie channels. DISH Network also offers dozens of premium movie channels from HBO THE WORKS, SHOWTIME, STARZ! The New Encore and Cinemax. For more information, visit www.dishnetwork.com, phone 800 333 DISH (3474) or contact your local DISH Network retailer. DISH Network is EchoStar's state-of-the-art DBS 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 four 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) which contains the largest non-financial companies on the NASDAQ Stock Market.

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