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To: judge who wrote (894)	8/8/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: Carter Patterson	Respond to of 1394

No, you won't see NFL football on the Fox Sports stations. I have the Fox Sports package and I love it....but I am continually blacked out of baseball games. The NFL-Fox package is for viewing on the Local Affiliate Fox stations, not the SportSouth, SportsBayArea, etc. For the price, its still a nice package to have but their is a lot of duplication. Don't be surprised to see DISH forced to black out certain NFL games on their DISHNETWORKS EAST/WEST package. I hope they don't. The federal laws that DISH is working around is really getting to me. I have a two-dish system so that I can receive Atlanta locals. Because I now receive Atlanta locals on my dish, I am no longer eligible for DISH Networks/East and West. So I'm contemplating, buying a big old TV antennae in the attic, shutting off Atlanta locals, and then hooking back up to DISH Networks East/West. Do you think they'll make me wait 90 days?

To: judge who wrote (894)	8/8/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: Frank Byers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1394

Maybe, I don't have the details of that package. But I'm sure that you can get many games on DISH, it's just that the sports fanatic may want the "option" of getting the big packages for NFL, college football, NBA, etc and you can't get those equivalent packages on DISH. I'm not saying that this is for everybody, but everything else being relatively equal, you'd probaby take the package with the sports if thats what you're into. I'm still bullish as hell on this stock though, I'm very sure we'll see a marketing or equity-based partnership with either Sprint or Worldcom, or maybe any of the local telco's that aren't aligned with DirectTV already. FB