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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
Dish Network's new VIP222K now in stores

Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator


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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Dish, ComCorp Engaged in Retransmission Dispute

Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator


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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Liberty set to benefit from directv

Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator


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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TV viewers in S.D. at risk of losing channels

Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator


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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DirecTV Expands Local HD, PBS Programming in Talahassee

Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator


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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TiVo and DirecTV in marriage counseling, developing new TiVo HD DVR box

Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator


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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Tivo vs. Echostar ruling delayed

Posted by : RiseStar , Lounge0101 Administrator


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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Digital Technology Articles
Dish Network's new VIP222K now in stores
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Dish, ComCorp Engaged in Retransmission Dispute
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Liberty set to benefit from directv
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TV viewers in S.D. at risk of losing channels
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DirecTV Expands Local HD, PBS Programming in Talahassee
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Dish Network's new "TurboHD" in a netshell
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TiVo and DirecTV in marriage counseling, developing new TiVo HD DVR box
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Want to put that know-it-all friend or neighbor in his place? Sit him down for a few rounds of this funny hit game show, in which adults try to answer questions drawn from actual elementary-school textbooks. Jeff Foxworthy is back as host as the show returns with a batch of new episodes.

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