DISH Networkô Offers Premium Movie Channels Free For New Customers

New Customers Can Get Up to 28 Movie Channels Free For Three Months

25-Jul-00

EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH, DISHP) announced starting August 1, 2000, new customers who activate a DISH Networkô satellite television system with America's Top 100 CD or America's Top 150 programming package and order any premium movie package will receive that premium movie package free for three months. Customers have a choice of four different premium movie packages - SHOWTIME Unlimited Package (10 channels for $10.99 per month), STARZ Encore Super Pak (8 channels for $10.99 per month), HBO The Works (7 channels for $11.99 per month) and Multimax Cinemax Package (3 channels for $10.99 per month) - offering a total of 28 commercial-free movie channels. With this promotion, new customers who order all four premium movie packages are saving over $100! All four movie packages for three months cost a total of over $100. With DISH Network's promotion for free movies for three months, customers who order all four packages are saving over $100 in premium movies! ""Giving our new customers three free months of premium movie channels is an excellent way to introduce them to the variety of movies that DISH Network has to offer, from the HBO Family channel to independent cinema on Sundance or from niche films on BET Movies/STARZ! to sci-fi hits on Showtime Beyond,"" said Mary Peterson, Vice President of Marketing at EchoStar. ""DISH Network's 28 premium movie channels offer over 2,000 movie choices each month, so there's a great movie to watch every night!"" For more information, visit a DISH Network retailer, www.dishnetwork.com or phone 800 333 DISH (3474). DISH Network is EchoStar's state-of-the-art direct broadcast satellite TV system that is capable of offering over 500 channels of digital video and CD-quality audio programming, fully MPEG-2/DVB compliant hardware and installation. DISH Network was also ranked number one in customer satisfaction among satellite/cable TV subscribers by the J.D. Power and Associates 1999 Cable/Satellite TV Customer Satisfaction Study. DISH Network offers hundreds of channels, including local channels, DolbyÆ Digital, high-speed interactive television and data services, all on a single dish antenna. DISH Network, which currently serves over 4 million customers, is a trademark of EchoStar Communications Corporation.

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