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Dish Network

DISH Network L.L.C. (an acronym for "Digital Sky Highway"[1]), a subsidiary of EchoStar, provides multichannel television and satellite television via Dish Network, mobile phone service via Dish Wireless, Boost Mobile, and Boost Infinite, as well as over-the-top IPTV services via Sling TV.

Formerly

EchoStar Communications Corporation (1980–2007)
DISH Network Corporation (2008–2023)
Dish Network India (2003–2007)

Nasdaq: DISH

  • 1980 (1980) (as EchoStar Communications Corporation)
  • January 1, 2008 (2008-01-01) (as Dish Network Corporation)

  • Jim DeFranco
  • Charlie Ergen
  • Cantey Ergen

Decrease US$17.437 billion (2022)

Decrease US$2.675 billion (2022)

Decrease US$2.065 billion (2022)

Increase US$49.858 billion (2022)

Increase US$16.549 billion (2022)

c. 14,200 (December 2022)

Technical information[edit]

Broadcast technology[edit]

For years DISH used standard MPEG-2 for broadcasting, but the addition of bandwidth-intensive HDTV called for a change to the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC system. DISH announced that, from February 1, 2006, all new HDTV channels would be available in H.264 format only, while maintaining the current lineup as MPEG-2. The company intended to convert the entire platform to H.264 to provide more channels to subscribers. In 2007, DISH Network reduced the resolution of 1080-line channels from 1920x1080 to 1440x1080. Reducing the horizontal resolution and/or data rate of HD video is known as HD Lite and is done by other TV providers as well.


Both a standard receiver and a receiver with built-in digital video recorder (DVR) were available to subscribers.[69] The DISH Network ViP722 HD DVR replacement for the ViP622 received generally positive reviews.[70] It could record up to 350 hours of standard-definition (SD) broadcasts, or 55 hours of high-definition (HD). These set-top boxes (STBs) allow for HD on the primary TV and SD on the secondary TV (TV2) without a secondary box on TV2.

Company type

July 1, 2020 (2020-07-01)

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United States

United States

John Swieringa (President)

Dish Network

CenturyLink

Earthlink

Frontier Communications

Cox Communications

Windstream

formerly Dish Network Canada

Bell Satellite TV

Dish México

(subsidiary Dish HD Asia serves China and Taiwan)

DishHD

List of multiple-system operators

List of United States pay television channels

Official website

  • Historical business data for DISH Network Corporation:
  • SEC filings