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To: John J. Thrall who wrote (519)	12/22/1997 2:56:00 PM
From: Satellite Mike	Respond to of 1394

Yes, John, I do agree that it's really disappointing DISH has not got their product in any of the big chain stores except for Sears. Why aren't they being sold in Best Buy, Circuit City, etc? And even though they're the fastest growing dbs company, they don't seem to put many news releases out. If DISH really aims to compete with DirecTV (which is valued in the Billions), they can't be in one-fifth as many stores. Do you know how many shares there are outstanding of DISH? I've seen conflicting reports, one said like 40,000,000 ane the other said like 15,000,000. I've left a message with their I.R. department to find out, buy either way this is a very low # of shares outstanding. This past month has been disappointing for shareholders, and it would be nice to know more about their strategy to improve shareholder value. I did read an article in IBD that stated that DISH was a likely acquistion target (after the other deal fell through). MV BABER

To: John J. Thrall who wrote (519)	12/22/1997 3:11:00 PM
From: Dom Sartorio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1394

"slow bleed" in stock price could be due to broader market instability (even though DISH has limited Asian exposure, the markets don't seem to care about this right now.. they're taking everybody down), and also because of recent secondary stock offerings which would have a dilutive effect. But the gradual decline is indeed disturbing, looks terrible from a technical perspective, I'd rather they just took the stock down all at once and got it over with. I am also a little concerned in the lack of marketing direction. I like the new Christmas ads, but not seeing their system in major retail stores is annoying. Also they have announced new channels (some new premium movie channels, and also Fox Sports), but you're right this does leave a lot of unused bandwidth in the new satellite. Any other thoughts regarding this? DOM