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To: Noel who wrote (345)	8/19/1997 2:07:00 PM
From: Dom Sartorio	of 1394

These are good long-term numbers, and I agree with them. Hence I'm long DISH, but not much just yet.. still a little worried about 2002-2003 being a long ways away and a lot can happen in the meantime. I've a couple of questions.. Would welcome answers from anybody on this thread. I've noticed that it's common in the satellite business to talk about EBIDTA (Earnings Before Interest, Depreciation, Taxes and Amortization), while this is uncommon in most other industries. Do you know why this is the case? Is it because this business is so capital-intensive? By the way DISH's EBIDTA is now positive, $3M in this past quarter. Secondly.. Plus they have all that real estate in the sky... I know they've a couple satellites, with a 3rd going up soon, do you mean they have any more "real estate" than this? I'm not aware of DISH being in a better position than competition in terms of satellite bandwidth. Can you elaborate? Thanks, DOM

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