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DISH Network Adds Great American Country

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Great American Country announced today that DISH Network (TM) will begin offering Great American Country to customers beginning Thursday, May 31, on DISH Network channel 167. Subscribers to DISH Network's America's Top 150 programming package will receive Great American Country at no additional cost.

"Customers who have been waiting to see Great American Country now have access to our programming through DISH Network,'' said Jeff Wayne, president of Great American Country. "We are thrilled about the launch of Great American Country on DISH Network and we know it will be a big hit with their viewers.''

Great American Country's rapidly growing list of markets already includes Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Dallas, Atlanta, Reno, Tucson, Albuquerque, Tulsa, Birmingham, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chattanooga and Knoxville.

"It's a great opportunity for DISH Network to be the only satellite TV provider offering Great American Country to its customers,'' said Michael Schwimmer, DISH Network's vice president of programming. "Subscribers to our America's Top 150 package will now receive non-stop country music programming at no cost. Adding Great American Country to our channel line-up also enables us to expand and add variety to the programming we offer to our customers.''

DISH Network's America's Top 150 programming package offers customers the most movies, sports, news, entertainment and family programming for the low price of $39.99 per month.

Great American Country (GAC) is best known for its music intensive format, which features a mix of current and past country videos that appeal to the largest market segment of the country music audience. Great American Country is home to country's only daily live request show, Country Request Live, broadcast from Starstruck Studios in the heart of Nashville. Great American Country airs more music videos back-to-back and fewer commercials providing viewers with almost 400 more videos a week than other music video networks, bringing the viewers more of what they want ...the hottest country music videos.