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DISH Network Offers Local Channels To Houston, Kansas City Via Satellite Television
DISH Network Now Provides Local Channels In 20 Cities!
EchoStar Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH, DISHP) announced today that DISH Networkô is now offering Houston, Kansas City, Missouri; and Kansas City, Kansas, local ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX network channels. 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, and 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. With the addition of Houston and Kansas City, DISH Network currently offers local channels in 20 cities, 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; and Salt Lake City. DISH Network currently plans to offer local channels via satellite to approximately 60 percent of the U.S. households by the end of March 2000. DISH Network is currently offering every cable customer a FREE DISH 500 satellite TV system and FREE installation with a one-year commitment to $39.98 per month in programming, available at participating retailers. DISH Network's new DISH 500 satellite TV systems offers local networks, as well as hundreds of all-digital channel choices using a single small dish, including popular sports, news and entertainment programming and dozens of premium movie channels. DISH Network offers America's Top 100 CD programming package starting at only $28.99 for over 100 channels. To find out how you can get your local channels along with hundreds of channels of popular satellite television programming, 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 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. EchoStar V, EchoStar's newest high-power direct broadcast satellite, launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS rocket on Sept. 23, 1999, to the 110 degrees W.L. orbital location. EchoStar V allows DISH Network to offer up to 500 channels, including local channels, high definition television, Dolby Digital surround sound, high-speed interactive television and data services, all on a single dish antenna.