Thanks to VickiM for sending this in!<\/p>\n
Thursday July 20, 6:06 pm Eastern Time
\nCompany Press Release<\/p>\nDISH Network Satellite TV Adds WGN-TV Chicago to Local Channel Lineup
\nLITTLETON, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 20, 2000–<\/p>\nEchoStar’s DISH Network Brings Competition to Cable – Along with Hundreds of
\nChannel Choices – by Offering Local ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and<\/p>\nNow Local WGN-TV for Chicago Customers with Cubs, White Sox and<\/p>\n
Chicago Bulls Games<\/p>\n
EchoStar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH – news, DISHP – news) is
\npleased to announce today that DISH Network(TM) has added the popular Warner Bros.(WB) affiliate WGN-TV to its lineup of local network offerings via
\nsatellite television in Chicago for no additional charge.<\/p>\nWGN-TV (ch. 9) offers top local news programming and acclaimed shows from
\nthe WB such as “Felicity,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Roswell” and
\n“Dawson’s Creek,” as well syndication hits “Friends” and “Drew Carey,”
\nthe highly rated “WGN Morning News,” renowned kids programming such as
\n“The Bozo Super Sunday Show,” plus a full schedule of Chicago Bulls, Cubs
\nand White Sox games.<\/p>\nIncluding WGN-TV, DISH Network currently offers WLS-ABC (ch. 7), WBBM-CBS
\n(ch. 2), WMAQ-NBC (ch. 5), and WFLD-FOX (ch. 32) to 16 counties in the
\nChicago metro area for a package price of only $4.99 per month. A national
\nPBS channel can be purchased for an additional $1 per month. These counties
\ninclude: Cook, De Kalb, Du Page, Grundy, Jasper, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, La
\nPorte, La Salle, Lake, Lake (north), McHenry, Newton, Porter and Will.<\/p>\nWith final passage of satellite TV legislation by Congress last November,
\nDISH Network now provides cable customers an affordable alternative by
\noffering local ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX network channels, plus some independent
\nand super stations via satellite TV.<\/p>\nDISH Network currently offers local channels in 30 metro areas, including:
\nNew York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Philadelphia; San Francisco-Oakland-San
\nJose; Boston; Dallas-Ft. Worth; Washington, D.C.; Detroit; Atlanta;
\nSeattle-Tacoma; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Miami-Ft. Lauderdale; Phoenix; Denver;
\nPittsburgh; Nashville; Salt Lake City; Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City,
\nMo.; Houston; Cleveland; Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Fla.; Tampa-St.
\nPetersburg, Fla.; Sacramento-Modesto-Stockton, Calif; St. Louis; Portland,
\nOre.; Indianapolis; Charlotte, N.C.; Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville, N.C.; and
\nSan Diego.<\/p>\nDISH Network offers affordable programming packages, such as America’s Top
\n40 channel package for only $19.99 per month, America’s Top 100 CD channel
\npackage for only $29.99 per month and America’s Top 150 channel package for
\nonly $39.99 per month. Consumers can receive local networks via a DISH
\nNetwork DISH 500 satellite TV system, as well as receive hundreds of
\nall-digital sports, news, entertainment and premium movie channels. DISH
\nNetwork also offers dozens of foreign-language channels, including DISH
\nLatino, DISH Network’s comprehensive all-Spanish-language package, using a
\nsingle small dish.<\/p>\nDISH Network also offers a WGN Superstation channel in America’s Top 100 CD
\nprogramming package.<\/p>\nFor more information visit www.dishnetwork.com, call 1-800\/333-DISH (3474),
\nor contact your local DISH Network retailer.<\/p>\nDISH Network is EchoStar’s state-of-the-art DBS system with the capacity to
\noffer 500 channels of digital video and CD-quality audio programming as well
\nas fully MPEG-2\/DVB compliant hardware and installation. DISH Network, a
\ntrademark of EchoStar Communications Corporation, currently serves over 4
\nmillion customers nationwide. DISH Network was ranked number one in customer
\nsatisfaction among satellite\/cable TV subscribers by J.D. Power and
\nAssociates in 1999. EchoStar is included in the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX),
\nwhich contains the largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq Stock
\nMarket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to VickiM for sending this in! Thursday July 20, 6:06 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release DISH Network Satellite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}