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To: Michael Kucera who wrote (28238)	8/17/1999 8:47:00 AM
From: Teflon	Respond to of 74651

Interesting article on EchoStar that briefly mentions WebTV. I wonder how the sails of this service are performing. I am hearing that WebTV is actually pickup up some much needed momentum. Any thoughts? cableworld.com Beating DirecTV and AOL to the punch, EchoStar and WebTV have already started marketing their joint satellite TV-Internet service to the public. For the past two months, they've been jointly promoting an advanced digital set-top box, DishPlayer, that lets subscribers get DBS service, browse the Internet, send and receive e-mail, download video games and carry out such "personal video recorder" (PVR) functions as pausing, rewinding and fast-forwarding TV shows in progress. EchoStar officials say sales have been brisk so far, although they decline to give out numbers. After cutting the introductory price by 60% to $199 in late May, they hope to sell hundreds of thousands of DishPlayer receivers by the end of the year. "We're selling everything we can make," said Mark Jackson, SVP of satellite services at EchoStar. The company's subscribers pay an extra $24.95 a month for WebTV Plus service and then another $4.95 a month for the PVR services. Teflon