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To: Peter V who wrote (47978)	12/21/1999 3:15:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Respond to of 50808

A good friend of mine asked me the other day what would happen to DISH when they start the locals and do the PR's on it??? Looks like we'll find out!! biz.yahoo.com DISH Network Now Offers Local Channels Via Satellite to Minneapolis - St. Paul LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 1999--EchoStar Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH - news, DISHP - news) is pleased to announce today that DISH Network(TM) will begin offering local KSTP-ABC (Ch. 5), WCCO-CBS (Ch. 4), KARE-NBC (Ch. 11) and WFTC-FOX (Ch. 29) network channels by satellite to 57 counties in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area starting Tuesday, Dec. 21. EchoStar's new DISH 500 satellite TV systems allows consumers to subscribe to hundreds of all-digital channel choices, including their local broadcast networks, popular sports, news and entertainment programming and dozens of premium movie channels using a convenient, single small dish. DISH Network will offer local channels to consumers in the following Minnesota counties: Anoka Dakota Le Sueur Ramsey Todd Barron Douglas Lyon Redwood Traverse Beltrami Dunn McLeod Renville Wabasha Benton Goodhue Meeker Rice Wadena Big Stone Grant Mille Lacs Scott Waseca Burnett Hennepin Morrison Sherburne Washburn Carver Hubbard Nicollet Sibley Washington Cass Isanti Pepin St. Croix Wright Chippewa Jackson Pierce Stearns Yellow Medicine Chisago Kanabec Polk Steele Cottonwood Kandiyohi Pine Stevens Crow Wing Lac qui Parle Pope Swift With final passage of satellite TV legislation by Congress, DISH Network can now provide dissatisfied cable customers an affordable and complete alternative by offering local ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX network channels from Minneapolis-St. Paul for a package price of only $4.99 per month. A national PBS channel can be purchased for an additional $1 per month. DISH Network also plans to soon offer popular independent network channels in some markets. --- With the addition of Minneapolis-St. Paul, DISH Network currently offers local channels in 14 cities: New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; San Francisco; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Dallas/Ft. Worth; Atlanta; Miami; Phoenix; Denver; Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City. DISH Network plans to expand its local channel offerings to more than 33 cities by the end of March 2000, which would provide local channels via satellite to approximately 60 percent of the U.S. households.