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To: John J. Thrall who wrote (538)	1/4/1998 7:54:00 PM
From: Dom Sartorio	Read Replies (1) of 1394

Re: are Echo I & II running out of channels? John, you mentioned DTV offering all the Encore channels while DISH offers just one, and suggested that perhaps DISH is running out of channels from Echostar I and II. If this is true, then I'd be curious as to why DISH is offering the 15 FOX Sports + regional stations at such low cost when it could make more by just offering more premium channels. Also, the fact that most pro sports games are blacked out on these channels doesn't help the cause (this is happening mostly because the pro leagues have signed exclusive viewing rights to other DBS vendors, freezing out DISH). Does anybody know for sure what is the channel capacity of Echostar I and II? And if they're running out of channels, does anybody know how they're going about allocating the remaining ones? (e.g. offering all these sports channels where many games are blacked out seems counterproductive) Right now (including FOX Sports package), I count 145 channels on my DISH system. If recent DTV ads are to be believed, they have 175. Where are these extra 30 channels coming from? DOM

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