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DISH Brings WB and UPN to Denver

LITTLETON, Colo.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2001-- EchoStar Communications Corporation is pleased to announce today that DISH Network(TM) has added the popular TV stations Denver's WB2 (KWGN-TV) and KTVD UPN20 to its lineup of local network offerings via satellite television in Denver for no additional charge.

Denver's WB2 (KWGN-TV, channel 2), offers complete Denver news coverage, with the only live and local newscast weekday mornings from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and the first late news coverage with WB2news@nine nightly. Denver's WB2 is not only the home of the WB network, but it also offers first-run syndication programming, including Friends, Spin City and coming this fall, Everybody Loves Raymond. Denver's WB2 is also the home of the Colorado Rockies, carrying 75 Major League Baseball games every season. The WB network features such hits as 7th Heaven, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, Roswell, and new hits such as Sabrina and Gilmore Girls. DISH Network will offer Denver's WB2 on channel 829. For more information, visit www.WB2.com.

KTVD UPN20, (Channel 20) is the broadcast home of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche and NBA's Denver Nuggets, as well as the new XFL football league premiering this week. UPN20 also features the final season of Star Trek Voyager. Other top shows include reality-based Arrest and Trial and Judge Judy. For young adults, UPN20 offers the hottest dating show on TV called Blind Date, as well as Sabrina The Teenage Witch for the kids. UPN20 also features box office hit movies and professional and college sports. DISH Network will offer KTVD UPN20 on channel 816.

DISH Network now offers the Denver local channels in the following 58 counties in Colorado and nearby states for a package price of only $4.99 per month:

The Colorado counties include: Adams, Alamosa, Arapahoe, Archuleta, Boulder, Chaffee, Conejos, Clear Creek, Custer, Delta, Denver, Douglas, Eagle, Elbert, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Jackson, Jefferson, Kit Carson, Lake, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan, Mineral, Moffat, Morgan, Park, Ouray, Phillips, Pitkin, Prowers, Rio Blanco, Rio Grande, Routt, Saguache, San Juan, San Miguel, Sedgwick, Summit, Washington, Weld, and Yuma. The Wyoming counties include: Albany, Campbell, Carbon, Niobrara and Platte. The Nebraska counties include: Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Keith, and Kimball. Nevada includes Eureka County.

DISH Network offers affordable programming packages, including America's Top 150 channel package for only $39.99 per month. Consumers can receive local networks via a DISH Network DISH 500 satellite TV system (models 3822 or higher), as well as receive hundreds of all-digital sports, news, entertainment and premium movie channels using a small dish. DISH Network currently offers local channels in 34 metro areas nationwide.