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  2. Dish Network - Wikipedia

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    www.dish.com. DISH Network L.L.C., often referred to as DISH, an abbreviation for Digital Sky Highway, [1] is an American provider of satellite television and IPTV services and wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation. The company was originally established as EchoStar Communications, and first launched its satellite television services ...

  3. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The service's "exclusive" high-definition channels were migrated to the Dish Network system. Commercial satellite TV services are the primary competition to cable television service, although the two types of service have significantly different regulatory requirements (for example, cable television has public access requirements, and the two ...

  4. PrimeStar - Wikipedia

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    PrimeStar was an American direct broadcast satellite broadcasting company formed in November 1990 by seven cable television companies including Comcast Corp. and TCI Communications Corp. [1] PrimeStar was the first medium-powered DBS system in the United States but slowly declined in popularity with the arrival of DirecTV in 1994 and Dish Network in 1996.

  5. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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    Satellite television. A number of satellite dishes. Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. [1] The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commonly referred to as a satellite dish and a ...

  6. Will DirecTV and Dish Merge? Satellite TV Operators Are ... - AOL

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    DirecTV is in talks with EchoStar, Dish’s parent company, to acquire Dish and Sling TV, according to reports by Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and CNBC. A deal could be finalized as early as ...

  7. Television receive-only - Wikipedia

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    Television receive-only (TVRO) is a term used chiefly in North America, South America to refer to the reception of satellite television from FSS -type satellites, generally on C-band analog; free-to-air and unconnected to a commercial DBS provider. TVRO was the main means of consumer satellite reception in the United States and Canada until the ...