It's Free! It's That Simple; DISH Network Offers FREE Digital Satellite TV System After Rebate
09/28/98
Business Wire
(Copyright (c) 1998, Business Wire)
LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1998--EchoStar Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:DISH, DISHP) announced today DISH Network(tm) is offering FREE Digital Satellite TV Systems!
DISH Network is making it simple for consumers to get rid of cable forever and begin watching hundreds of their favorite satellite television channels by offering them a FREE premium digital satellite TV system in combination with DISH Network One-Rate Plan.
DISH Network is now offering new customers an advanced model, 32-bit, multi-room-ready digital satellite TV system FREE, after rebate. Here's how simple it works: Customers purchase the system for $249 and subscribe to DISH Network's convenient One-Rate Plan of $48.98 per month, which requires a one-year commitment to America's Top 100 CD package including their choice of TWO premium movie packages. After customers make their first programming payment, DISH Network will send them a check for $249. That's a FREE digital satellite TV system!
DISH Network One-Rate Plan offers customers the ease of one low price while receiving 100 of their favorite channels including over 30 commercial-free, CD-quality music channels as well as their choice of two premium movie packages from the following:
o HBO The Works Package - Two channels of HBO, two channels of
HBO Plus, one channel of HBO Signature, and one channel of HBO
Family.
o MultiMAX from Cinemax Package - Two channels of Cinemax and one
channel of MoreMAX.
o SHOWTIME Unlimited Package - Three channels of SHOWTIME, one
channel of SHOWTIME Extreme, one channel of FLIX, two channels
of The Movie Channel, and one channel of Sundance.
o STARZ!/ENCORE Package - One channel of STARZ!, one channel of
STARZ!2, one channel of ENCORE and one channel of WESTERNS.
"DISH Network One-Rate Plan makes it easy for consumers to tune into more channels, more choices and more movies, all viewed through a FREE digital satellite TV system," said Charlie Ergen, CEO and chairman of EchoStar Communications Corp. "DISH Network continues to offer the best prices in satellite television and the best choice over the poor customer service and high prices of cable."
The FREE Digital Satellite TV System special is effective Oct. 1, 1998, and runs through Dec. 31, 1998.
DISH Network offers even more savings! DISH Network has slashed the price of a Standard Professional Installation to only $49, or customers can choose to receive a Self-Installation Kit for FREE. That's a savings of $150 off the normal installation price of $199.
DISH Network is the only satellite television company to re-transmit local TV signals, in digital quality, to 13 major cities in the United States: Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City, Miami and Pittsburgh, and local network TV stations will be available in more U.S. cities soon. If new customers act now, they can receive a FREE local off-air or dish antenna with purchase of a $49 Standard Professional Installation Special and a $50 local network installation. This offer is for a limited time only. Viewers may be eligible to receive their local TV network channels as well as DISH NETS East or DISH NETS West network packages, the flagship network stations from New York and Los Angeles. So call 1-800-333-DISH (3474) or your local DISH Network retailer to disconnect from cable and get your local channels seamlessly, either with an off-air antenna or from DISH Network satellites.
You can have it all, with over 300 programming services with crystal-clear, CD-quality audio and video channels providing the best in entertainment television, local broadcast TV networks, and international programming available today by calling 1-800-333-DISH (3474).
EchoStar Communications Corp., includes three interrelated business units:
o DISH Network(tm), EchoStar's state-of-the-art DBS system that
offers customers over 300 of digital video and CD-quality audio
programming options, fully MPEG - 2 /DVB compliant hardware,
installation, financing and leasing.
o EchoStar Technologies Corporation (ETC, formerly HTS(TM)- Houston
Tracker Systems, Inc.), designs, manufactures and distributes DBS
set-top boxes, antennae and other digital equipment for DISH
Network and various international customers that include
ExpressVu Canada and Telefonica's Via Digital system in Spain.
ETC also provides uplink center design, construction oversight
and project integration services for customers internationally.
o Satellite Services provides the delivery of video, audio and data
services to business television customers and other satellite
users. These services include satellite uplink, satellite
transponder space usage and other services.
The DISH Network currently serves over 1.5 million customers. DISH Network is a trademark of EchoStar Communications Corporation. HTS is a trademark of Houston Tracker Systems, Inc. DISH Network is located on the Internet at: www.dishnetwork.com
CONTACT: EchoStar Communications Corp. Judianne Atencio Communications Director 303/723-2010 e-mail: judianne.atencio@echostar.com or Marc Lumpkin Communications Manager 303/723-2020 e-mail: marc.lumpkin@echostar.com
12:44 EDT SEPTEMBER 28, 1998
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