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All About
Dish Network
Dish Network is owned by EchoStar Communications Corporation. EchoStar began in 1980 in the early days of home satellite reception, as a distributor of C-band TV systems. The company quickly earned a reputation for innovation and state-of-the-art equipment, systems and services.
In 1987, EchoStar filed for a Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) license with the Federal Communications Commission and was granted access to orbital slot 119° west Longitude in 1992.
With the successful launch of EchoStar I in 1995, the Company made its move toward providing its own DBS service. That same year, EchoStar established the Dish Network brand name - and Dish Network was born. Dish Network began broadcasting programming in March of 1996 from it's uplink center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. EchoStar II, launched in 1996, expanded Dish Network's capacity.
Dish Network has continued to acquire new orbital slots, adding to its fleet of satellites. Today, the nine satellites that make up the Dish Network fleet have the capacity to provide hundreds of channels of digital video, audio and data services via Dish Network service to homes, businesses and schools throughout the US. EchoStar has become one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of satellite systems with sales around the globe.
Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, EchoStar is a public company with approximately 20,000 employees. The Company and its subsidiaries deliver Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) television products and services to customers worldwide.
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Dish Network satellite TV delivers hundreds of channels directly into your home: a wide variety of movies, sports, news, and International entertainment to satisfy any household and any budget. All Dish Network entertainment comes to you in 100% digital clarity. This means that the picture you see is digitally encoded and arrives on your screen in exactly the manner the programmer intended. [As you may know, basic cable service uses less advanced analog technology prone to distort the picture with shadowing, fuzziness and static. Even with a digital cable subscription, only a portion of the channels offered are digital: the rest often remain analog.]
Along with a superior picture, Dish Network satellite TV offers many other technological advances like high definition TV (HDTV) and Digital Video Recorders (DVR). High definition delivers the sharpest, clearest TV picture available today. DVR gives you amazing control over your TV viewing by letting you pause live TV, record without videotape, create replays and slow motion effects, and instantly skip recorded commercials.
Dish Network uses an 18 inch dish, and MPEG02/DVB compliant receivers sold under the brand names of EchoStar and JVC. These receivers are identical except for exterior design and labeling.
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