Dish Network

In 1987, foreseeing changing technology in the satellite TV industry, EchoStar Communications (Parent Corporation of Dish Network) filed for a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) license with the FCC. Since then EchoStar has launched 10 satellites with the capacity to offer over 500 digital video, data and audio channels of programming including local networks and HDTV. Dish Network now offers the lowest all-digital TV price in America and continues to look for ways to offer new services, such as high definition TV, to bring even greater programming choices to television viewers nationwide.