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Dish Network at a Glance
Stock quote: DISH $20.92 (-0.40)
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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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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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
In order to give the website a better focus, we are phasing out the less popular areas of the site, including the high definition and digital video recorder areas and forums. This will leave the site focused on digital satellite television and satellite radio.
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Life
DSC
8:00 pm ET
Magnificent wildlife footage and engaging narration by Oprah Winfrey make this BBC offering a must-watch. The first episode, "Challenges of Life, " spotlights the ways in which animals have adapted to secure the food they need to survive, including teamwork -- the footage of cheetahs working together to bring down an ostrich is a stunner -- and the use of simple tools.
Cold Case
CBS
10:00 pm ET
Lilly (Kathryn Morris) and her team grow worried as they realize Vera (Jeremy Ratchford) has hit rock bottom when he goes missing, but they hope a new twist in a 2006 arson case -- one that Vera had been obsessing about -- may help lead to his whereabouts. Danny Pino, John Finn and Tracie Thoms also star in the new episode "Flashover," which features the music of Pink Floyd.
Kirstie Alley's Big Life
A&E
10:00 pm ET
She played a somewhat heightened version of herself in the Showtime sitcom "Fat Actress," but now Emmy winner Kirstie Alley returns with a new reality series that follows the celebrity single mom as she tries to raise two well-adjusted teenagers in Hollywood. In the series opener, "The Tipping Point," an ugly run-in with the paparazzi gives Kirstie the inspiration to lose her excess pounds.
College Basketball
CBS
12:00 pm ET
So whom do you have in your office's March Madness pool? There's a lot to be decided as the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament moves into its first full week of action today with four second-round games from Jacksonville, Fla., Buffalo, N.Y., Milwaukee and Spokane, Wash. The Big Dance continues through this week and into next, culminating with the Final Four April 3 in Indianapolis, and the championship game two nights later.
NASCAR Racing
FOX
12:00 pm ET
Kyle Busch broke a streak of 13 wins at 13 different tracks with his victory at last year's spring race at Tennessee's Bristol Motor Speedway. His second career triumph on the .533-mile oval came in dominating fashion, as he led for 378 of the race's 500 laps to edge Denny Hamlin by .391 seconds in a green-white-checkered finish. He'll return today to defend his title against a field that will include Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and others.
Rush Hour 3
TBS
6:00 pm ET
Sorry, Jackie. The pairing of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker worked -- sort of -- in the original "Rush Hour," but the formula started to fizzle in the first sequel, and this one fails to reignite the spark. Blame the passage of time; Chan is still far more fit than the average guy his age, but his prowess isn't what it was in 1998. And Tucker's shtick is also showing its age. Stick with the original.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
ABC
8:00 pm ET
Actor Christian Slater travels with Ty Pennington and the team to Hattiesburg, Miss., where they rebuild the home of Sherman Heathcock, a National Guard hero, and his family. When he isn't serving tours of duty in Iraq, Heathcock works several jobs that leave him little time to repair his home, which is still bearing the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. The Jonas Brothers and Celine Dion also make special appearances.
NBA Basketball
ESPN
8:00 pm ET
A pair of playoff-bound teams go at it today in Atlanta, where Joe Johnson and the Hawks defend home court from Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs. With the No. 3 seed in the East at this writing, the Hawks are one of the conference's best teams. But you wouldn't have gleaned that from their performance against the Spurs back in January, when Duncan scored 21 points and grabbed 27 rebounds to lead the Spurs to an easy 105-90 victory down Alamo way.
Desperate Housewives
ABC
9:00 pm ET
Angie's (Drea de Matteo) ex-boyfriend (guest star John Barrowman, "Torchwood") visits Wisteria Lane. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) becomes suspicious of Preston's (Max Carver) fiancee. Gaby and Susan (Eva Longoria Parker, Teri Hatcher) go to ridiculous lengths to top each other's children. Katherine (Dana Delany) comes out of the closet in the new episode "My Two Young Men."
Gene Simmons Family Jewels
A&E
9:00 pm ET
Season five of the unconventional family reality series follows the KISS star as he, son Nick and daughter Sophie grapple with partner and mom Shannon Tweed's health scare, catching Gene between his two worlds -- as doting dad and partner and a musician scheduled to depart on a demanding tour with his band.
Halloween
SPIKE
9:00 pm ET
Nearly 30 years after John Carpenter turned Jamie Lee Curtis into a screen scream queen in his elegant (in hindsight) low-budget shocker, director Rob Zombie tries to resuscitate unkillable boogeyman Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) in a 2007 remake that is notable for its sheer folly -- not to mention its buckets of gore and elevated body count. And more definitely isn't more. Malcolm McDowell and Scout Taylor-Compton star.
The Celebrity Apprentice
NBC
9:00 pm ET
During a challenge that revolves around building a storefront to relaunch Kodak's well-known "Kodak moments" campaign, the men's project manager is confronted when a team member feels left out. The women's team is plagued by illness, a power outage and a high-maintenance celebrity. The storefronts both attract big crowds, with secret shoppers visiting to report back to the Kodak executives.
The Pacific
HBOE
9:00 pm ET
Part 2 in this 10-part series finds Basilone (Jon Seda) and the 7th Marines arriving on Guadalcanal to reinforce Leckie (James Badge Dale) and the rest of the 1st Marine Division as they continue to defend the crucial airstrip. Basilone plays a key role in repelling a nighttime Japanese attack but suffers a frightful personal loss. After four months of continuous action, the exhausted, disease-ridden members of the 1st Marine Division are evacuated off the island.
Breaking Bad
AMC
10:00 pm ET
As season three premieres with "No Mas," improbable drug kingpin Walt (Emmy winner Bryan Cranston) is in remission and a whole lot of danger, while a heartbroken Jesse (Aaron Paul) is in rehab after Jane's overdose, and Skyler (Anna Gunn) is in on their secret and out of Walt's life. Will the lure of money and power -- plus insistent suppliers who demand his product, and an insidious lawyer (Bob Odenkirk) -- still prove too much for Walt to resist?
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