Dish Network Information

Dish Network is a broadcast satellite dish service that sends digital video and audio signals to homes in the U.S. and is owned by their parent company, EchoStar Communications Corporation.

The EchoStar Company started to provide its own satellite service on December 28, 1995. In that same year, EchoStar established the Dish Network brand name when it launched EchoStar I. On September 10, 1996 they launched EchoStar II.

During the following five years Dish Network obtained some additional orbital slots and launched six more satellites under the Echostar name. They now have nine satellites in orbit that they use in order to provide their satellite tv service.

Originally, Dish Network used an 18-inch satellite dish that they called the Dish 300. This dish allowed customers to be able to receive a signal from just one satellite location. Today, Dish Network systems use a 20-inch satellite dish which they have named the Dish 500. This one allows subscribers to be able to receive satellite signals from two satellite locations at the same time.

In 1995 Dish Network had 20,000 subscribers. By 2006 that number had grown to more than 12,000,000.

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