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Dish Network at a Glance
Stock quote: DISH $17.75 (0.00)
Headquarters: Englewood, Colorado
Date of launch: March 1996
Satellites in service: 13
Available satellite channels:500+
Estimated subscribers:13.5 Million+
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Dish Network's new VIP222K now in stores
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Echostar’s new VIP222K high definition receiver has been released just in time for Christmas and in time for the February 2009 cut-off of all analog over the air television signals.
The new receiver comes with an off-air digital tuner cartridge, allowing viewing of either digital local off air signals or Dish Network standard or high definition satellite broadcast signals on 2 separate televisions.
The new digital tuner is important because after February 2009, all over the air broadcasts will be in digital only and will require either a digital television, or a digital tuner in order to continue receiving them on older analog televisions.
Independently watch programming on two TVs – one HDTV and one SDTV
TV1 viewing location
• Connect to an HDTV to view SD and HD DISH Network
programming and HD over the air digital broadcas ...
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 Posted on Tue 16 Dec 2008, 9:24 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Dish, ComCorp Engaged in Retransmission Dispute
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Station Group Warns Satellite Provider May Stop Carrying Its Signals
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News
After settling one retransmission-consent dispute, Dish Network is in another flap with a broadcaster over the issue of cash-for-carriage.
Stations owned by Communications Corp. of America are warning their viewers that Dish Network may stop carrying their signals. It’s unclear exactly how many stations are involved, but WGMB-TV in Baton Rouge, La., KADN-TV in Lafayette, La., KMSS-TV in Shreveport, La., KPEJ-TV in Odessa, Texas, KVEO-TV in Brownsville, Texas, KETK-TV in Jacksonsville-Tyler, Texas, and KTSM-TV in El Paso, Texas, have all posted warnings on their Web sites that Dish may drop them.
For example, WGMB said, “Dish Network has refused to consider our offer, which is similar in terms granted to other local stations. Keep in mind you currently pay Dish Network nearly $6 per month for local stations. We offered WGMB t ...
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Posted on Tue 16 Dec 2008, 8:40 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Liberty set to benefit from directv
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 By PETER LAURIA, New York Post
In a move designed to highlight the value of DirecTV, the board of John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. plans to move forward with a spin-off of the unit that houses most of its stake in the satellite-television operator.
Liberty's 52 percent stake in DirecTV is valued at more than $12 billion based on the unit's $24 billion market capitalization. But Liberty itself is only worth $6.7 billion.
According to Liberty CEO Greg Maffei, the spin-off, which had been in the works, "will reduce the discount from fair value" in the company's stock and give it a new currency to "pursue strategic objectives."
DirecTV has long been rumored to be a potential merger partner for AT&T, and now that the tie-up of satellite-radio operators Sirius and XM was approved by regulators, industry observers are whispering that rival EchoStar may make another run at merging with DirecTV.
EchoStar Corp. and D ...
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Posted on Tue 16 Dec 2008, 8:35 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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TV viewers in S.D. at risk of losing channels
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 Seth Tupper The Daily Republic
Published Friday, December 12, 2008
A national trend of disputes pitting broadcasters against cable and satellite television providers has spread to eastern South Dakota, putting upwards of 15,000 viewers at risk of losing channels or suffering a rate increase.
KSFY, the Sioux Falls ABC affiliate that serves the eastern part of the state, is in a dispute with four cable television providers. KSFY has historically given its signal to the cable providers for free — as have other broadcasters — but KSFY and its Texas-based parent company, Hoak Media, now want to charge for it.
Negotiations on a price for what’s known as a “retransmission” agreement have failed so far. If new agreements or extensions to the existing free agreements are not reached by Dec. 31, KSFY and its popular ABC programs, such as “Desperate Housewives” and “Dancing with the Stars,” could be dropped from the cable lineups of Garretson-ba ...
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Posted on Sun 14 Dec 2008, 12:57 AM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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DirecTV Expands Local HD, PBS Programming in Talahassee
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 DirecTV is now offering local HD programming to customers in the Tallahassee, FL, designated market area. The company now offers local HD broadcast channels in 116 cities, representing more than 87 percent of U.S. TV households.
In other DirecTV news, the company has launched a second wave of local public TV stations in HD, adding 10 more markets. DirecTV launched 14 markets last week and plans to roll out additional markets through the end of the year and in 2009. Local PBS stations in HD were launched today in the following markets: Burlington, Vt.-Plattsburgh, NY; Toledo and Youngstown, OH; Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, MI; Indianapolis; Knoxville, TN; San Diego and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA; Springfield-Holyoke, MA; and Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL.
Under an agreement reached late last year by DirecTV, the Association of Public Television Stations and PBS, DirecTV will offer HD programming from local public TV stations in markets where it now provides l ...
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Posted on Sun 14 Dec 2008, 12:39 AM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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TiVo and DirecTV in marriage counseling, developing new TiVo HD DVR box
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 TiVo has announced that they have extended their service agreement with DirecTV, a new 5 year deal, which now includes the development, marketing and distribution of a new high definition DVR featuring the popular TiVo service. This looks to be the beginning to an end of a strained relationship between the two. In 2005, shortly after NDS took the reins at DirecTV, it was announced that DirecTV would be switching to in-house NDS designed DVR’s, for new installations. The new boxes paled in comparison to the older DirecTV-TiVo systems and were not overly popular as the interface was cold and uninviting compared to the friendly TiVo interface.
In 2006, DirecTV and TiVo extended their service agreement for an additional 3 years, allowing them to extend their service to existing customers, however neither they nor DirecTV were marketing to new customers.
Now that NDS is no longer calling the shots at DirecTV, it makes sense for them to revisit the TiVo pla ...
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Posted on Sun 14 Sep 2008, 7:02 PM
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Digital Satellite TV Articles
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Tivo vs. Echostar ruling delayed
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Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator
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 The seemingly never ending squabble between TiVo and Echostar over TiVo’s DVR patented “Time Warp” technology was further delayed this week by a federal judge in Texas who has delayed his decision on until as late as November.
In August 2006, a jury finding found Echostar liable for infringing on TiVo’s patented “Time Warp” technology which allows viewing of one program while recording another. It was ordered that Echostar disable their infringing DVR systems within 30 days and TiVo was initially awarded $90 million in damages.
Echostar appealed the decision, and was granted a stay of the injunction until the appeal could be heard. In early 2008, the appeal was upheld in part, including the awarded damages.
TiVo asserts that they are owed up to an additional $220 million in royalties and lost profits from the 18 month delay caused by the appeals process. Echostar disputes this, claiming that they had created a “work-around” in their DV ...
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Posted on Thu 11 Sep 2008, 8:09 PM
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08/04/2008 11:20 AM
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Chuck
NBC
8:00 pm ET
Chuck and Hannah (Zachary Levi, guest star Kristin Kreuk) unexpectedly become part of Agent Shaw's (guest star Brandon Routh) latest mission, while Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) is irritated by Shaw's attempts to get close to her. Morgan and Ellie (Joshua Gomez, Sarah Lancaster) continue their mission to get to the bottom of Chuck's strange behavior. Adam Baldwin also stars in the new episode "Chuck Versus the Mask."
Life Unexpected
CW
9:00 pm ET
Cate (Shiri Appleby) tries to get Lux (Britt Robertson) a second chance after she is suspended from school, but a meeting with Principal Dugan (guest star Merrilyn Gann) may just have made matters worse. Baze (Kristoffer Polaha) gets his feathers ruffled when he learns that Cate and Ryan (Kerr Smith) are hosting a radio station event at the bar across the street in the new episode "Bong Intercepted."
Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City
PBS
10:00 pm ET
Filmmaker Aaron Woolf explores how the city of Detroit -- which currently stands as a bleak symbol of America's diminished status in the world -- may well come to symbolize the future of progress transportation in America. The program also visits Spain, home of an impressively modern transit system, and California, where voters recently approved a high-speed rail system.
Armageddon
FXEAST
7:00 pm ET
Earth is menaced by a ginormous asteroid the size of Texas in this 1998 thriller, but fear not! Oil driller Bruce Willis and his team of experts are just itching to zoom up to the extraterrestrial interloper and blow it to smithereens. Of course, after 15 minutes or so of this relentlessly loud, aggressively stupid waste of celluloid, the option of asteroid-induced oblivion starts to sound pretty sweet. Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck co-star.
Money Train
SPIKE
7:00 pm ET
There's no denying Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes ("White Men Can't Jump") are great together. But they should have stuck to basketball. Not even their chemistry can redeem this 1995 tale of two foster brothers who work as New York transit cops. Harrelson's character, a compulsive gambler, is in debt up to his eyebrows and decides the answer to his problem is to rob the train that collects the subway fares. And did we mention they're both lusting after a colleague played by J.Lo? Really.
One Tree Hill
CW
8:00 pm ET
As the movie shoot begins, Brooke and Julian (Sophia Bush, Austin Nichols) strive to balance their personal lives with work. Clay (Robert Buckley) offers support to Quinn (Shantel VanSanten) as she faces some unexpected news. Haley and Nathan (Bethany Joy Galeotti, James Lafferty) get a surprise visit. Alex (Jana Kramer) sets her cap for Alexander (guest star Mitch Ryan) in the new episode "My Attendance Is Bad but My Intentions Are Good."
Heroes
NBC
9:00 pm ET
Everyone bands together to try to stop Samuel (Robert Knepper) from taking the lives of thousands. Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) teams with an unexpected ally to save Emma (guest star Deanne Bray). H.R.G.'s (Jack Coleman) life hangs in the balance as he and Claire (Hayden Panettiere) are trapped underground. Hiro (Masi Oka) comes to grips with decisions he has made in the season finale, "Brave New World."
Inside the Border Warriors
NGC
9:00 pm ET
This series follows the Shadow Wolves, an elite unit of American Indian federal agents working to stop drug smugglers crossing into the United States via an Arizona reservation. They collaborate with other law enforcement agencies and meet with concerned tribal residents in a concerted effort to restrict the swelling amount of contraband coming over the border in the new episode "Ground Zero."
Intervention
A&E
9:00 pm ET
Marquel, a fitness instructor, seems to have the perfect life, but her family has started to worry that she is an exercise addict, bulimic and alcoholic after a series of hospitalizations. Her relatives turn to Candy for help in planning an intervention in this new episode.
Kell on Earth
BRAVO
10:00 pm ET
When you fall off the horse, get right back on. That's what Kelly does in this new episode after the problems with the Chado Ralph Rucci show. She's determined to make the next event go smoothly, and a successful presentation for a new client helps her get her groove back. The same can't be said for Stephanie, one of her employees, who's having trouble dealing with all the pressure of Fashion Week in "The Show Must Go On."
Julia
TCM
10:15 pm ET
Based on Lillian Hellman's memoir, this 1977 film explores the powerful relationship between the playwright (Jane Fonda) and her lifelong friend, Julia (Vanessa Redgrave). A brilliant intellectual, Julia comes of age in Nazi Germany, where she becomes active in the Resistance. Redgrave won an Oscar for her performance.
NBA Basketball
TNT
10:30 pm ET
A clash of Western Conference titans is on tap tonight at Staples Center when the Pacific-leading Los Angeles Lakers welcome the San Antonio Spurs, at this writing the second-place team in the Southwest. The Lakers hope a return to health will yield a better result than their last meeting with the Spurs, when injuries to Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol slowed L.A. enough to produce a 105-85 San Antonio win down Alamo way on Jan. 12.
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