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DISH Network Offers Local Channels in Albuquerque and Santa Fe

LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2000-- EchoStar Communications Corporation is pleased to announce that beginning today, DISH Network(TM)will offer local KOAT-ABC (Ch. 7), KRQE-CBS (Ch. 13), KOB-NBC (Ch. 4), and KASA-FOX (Ch. 2) by satellite television to 32 counties in the greater metro area of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M.

With final passage of satellite TV legislation by Congress last December, DISH Network can now provide cable customers an affordable and complete alternative by offering local ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX network channels 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 offer popular independent network channels in several markets.

DISH Network will offer local channels in the following counties in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona:

• NEW MEXICO: Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, De Baca, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Harding, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Luna, McKinley, Mora, North Lea, Otero, Rio Arriba, San Juan, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance and Valencia
• ARIZONA: North Apache
• COLORADO: Montezuma, La Plata and Costilla

With the addition of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, DISH Network offers local channels via satellite TV to a total of 34 cities and their metro areas nationwide, including: Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago; Cincinnati; Cleveland; Dallas-Ft. Worth; Denver; Detroit; Greenville-Spartanburg-Ashville-Anderson, S.C.; Houston; Indianapolis; Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo.; Los Angeles; Miami-Ft. Lauderdale; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Nashville; New York; Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Fla.; Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Portland, Ore., Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Sacramento-Modesto-Stockton, Calif.; Salt Lake City; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego; San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose; Seattle-Tacoma; St. Louis; Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla., and Washington, D.C.

Customers who choose one of DISH Network's Digital Dynamite plans have no equipment to buy and receive an in-home service plan! Starting at $34.99 per month, Digital Dynamite offers over a hundred all-digital sports, entertainment and movie channels!

DISH LATINO and DISH LATINO DOS programming package offers an extensive selection of the best all-digital Spanish-language news, sports, movies and music channels, such as TV AZTECA, Cine Latino, HTV, FOX Sports World en Espanol and other popular networks, starting at only $19.99 per month.