In 2008, NDS was found to have broken piracy laws by hacking EchoStar Communications ’ smart card system, however only $ 1, 500 in statutory damages were awarded.

Dominion, under its former corporate name Video Satellite Systems Inc., was actually the second from among the first nine companies to apply to the FCC for a high-power DBS license in 1981, and it was the sole surviving DBS pioneer from that first round of forward-thinking applicants until the sale of their license to EchoStar Communications Corporation in 2007 and departure from satellite distribution in 2008.

EchoStar was formed in 1980 by its chairman and chief executive officer, Charles Ergen along with colleagues Candy Ergen and Jim Defranco, as a distributor of C band satellite television systems.

In 1987, EchoStar applied for a direct broadcast satellite broadcast license with the Federal Communications Commission and was granted access to orbital slot 119 ° west longitude in 1992.

EchoStar subsequently sought to acquire DirecTV and was the presumptive acquirer, but EchoStar was ultimately blocked by the Federal Communications Commission.

While EchoStar's lawsuit against Microsoft was in process, DirecTV ( presumptively acquired by EchoStar, and in control by EchoStar ) dropped UltimateTV ( thus ending Microsoft's satellite product initiatives ) and picked TiVo's DirecTV product as its only Digital Video Recorder offering.

The company that was awarded the 110-degree slot, ASkyB, eventually became defunct and the license for the 110-degree satellite location was resold to EchoStar, the parent company of DISH Network.

The OpenTV 2 middleware was deployed at BSkyB ( UK ), Sky Italia ( Italy ), Digital + ( Spain ), Télévision Par Satellite TPS ( France ), Numericable ( France ), EchoStar ( USA ), Bell ExpressVu ( Canada ), Foxtel ( Australia ), Austar ( Australia ), Sky New Zealand ( New Zealand ), Showtime ( Saudi Arabia ), Evision ( Dubai ), Cablecom ( Switzerland ), Euskaltel ( Spain ), Auna ( Spain ), StarHub ( Singapore ), TrueVisions ( Thailand ), Viasat ( Nordic ), HOT ( Israël ), Net Serviços de Comunicação ( Brazil ), Zee Dish TV of Essel Group ( India ), TV Cabo ( Portugal ), Cabovisão ( Portugal ), Digiturk ( Turky ), Etisalat ( UAE ), NTV-Plus ( Russia ), Liberty Global UPC Broadband ( Europe ), Nova ( Greece ), DStv ( South Africa ), among many other pay-tv operation globally

OpenTV 2 was ported on more than 40 different types of television set-top boxes such as the one from Pace, ADB, Amstrad, Daewoo, EchoStar, Grundig, Humax, Hyundai, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Sagemcom, Samsung, Cisco / Scientific Atlanta, Sony, Toshiba and Thomson ( now Technicolor ).

A second transmitter on former channel 56 ( block E, 722-728 MHz ) was used by Manifest Wireless ( which, like Dish Network, is a subsidiary of EchoStar ).

StarBand is a two-way satellite broadband Internet service available in the U. S .. StarBand Communications Inc. was initially a joint venture between Gilat Satellite Networks, EchoStar and Microsoft, and the StarBand service was launched in 2000.

EchoStar alleged that in the 90 ’ s NDS was responsible for the compromise of EchoStar ’ s satellite television programming platform through the posting of code on the DR7 website.

In August 2010, the Ninth Circuit stated in its decision that “ EchoStar did not succeed ' on any significant issue ' or ' achieve any of the benefit it sought in bringing suit ' under the Communications Act .” The Ninth Circuit awarded NDS US $ 18 million and concluded that “ There is no question that NDS successfully defended against all of EchoStar ’ s claims based on or related to its theory that NDS was responsible for the compromise of EchoStar ’ s satellite television programming security system .”

In February 2011, the Ninth Circuit further stated, “ NDS was the prevailing party in this litigation and that EchoStar fails to meet the legal definition of a prevailing party on any of its claims .”

First logo, used from 1996-2005Dish Network officially began operations in March 1996 as a service of EchoStar.

, Dish Network split from EchoStar, with each entity becoming a separate company.

EchoStar is the key technology partner to Dish Network, which focuses only on marketing and providing satellite television service.

Dish Network Corporation, the larger of the two resulting companies, focuses on programming, service and marketing of satellite television, while EchoStar Corporation runs a majority of the satellite fleet and other signal infrastructure.

Since EchoStar also owned the adjacent 119 ° W orbital location it developed the Dish 500 to receive the signals of both orbital locations using one Dish and an innovative dual-LNB assembly.

In spite of all this capacity, EchoStar still needed to fulfill the dream of nationwide high-definition television and conceived the Dish 1000 system to receive signals from 110 ° W, 119 ° W, and 129 ° W orbital locations.

* 1996 — ANT1 satellite began broadcasting on channel 604 on Dish Network in the U. S. ( see Dish Network and EchoStar Communications Corporation for more ).

Charles William Ergen better known as Charlie Ergen ( born March 1, 1953 ) is the co-founder and current Chairman of the Board, and former President and CEO of the Dish Network, formerly known as the EchoStar Communications Corporation.

EchoStar ( which held a minority interest in TechTV and owned Dish Network ) retained partial ownership of the combined entity.

The Nimiq satellites are a fleet of geostationary telecommunications satellites owned by the Telesat and used by satellite television providers including Bell TV and EchoStar ( Dish Network ).

EchoStar ( Dish Network spin off ) now owns the satellite ( as it carried Voom HD Networks ).

In the United States, it is available on EchoStar ’ s DISH Network.

SS / L's customers include AsiaSat, DirecTV, EchoStar, Globalstar, Hispasat, Hughes Network Systems, ICO Global Communications, Intelsat, Japan MTSAT, JSC Gascom, Loral Skynet, NASA / NOAA ( GOES ), Optus, PanAmSat, QuetzSat, SatMex, SES S. A., SES New Skies, Shin Satellite, Sirius Satellite Radio, SpainSat, ViaSat, WildBlue, and XM Satellite Radio.

Goodfriend was a co-founder and EVP / General Counsel of Air America Radio, and was Vice President of Law and Public Policy at DISH Network, EchoStar Satellite LLC ( DISH Network ).

EchoStar and NDS agreed that the terms for satisfying the judgment should be met by 9 March 2012.

On 9 March 2012, NDS received from EchoStar the remaining balance of US $ 18, 935, 399. 49, in full satisfaction of the final judgment, including district court fees and costs, appellate court fees and costs and all interest.

On May 21, 2007, U. S. District Court of Eastern Texas ruled in favor of EchoStar Communications Corporation, on grounds that the patent is invalid.

In 2003, EchoStar attempted to purchase DirecTV, but the FCC and U. S. Department of Justice denied the purchase based on anti-competitive concerns.

EchoStar Satellite L. L. C.

This branding came after the successful launch of its first satellite, EchoStar I in December 1995 and marked the beginning of the company offering subscription television services.

On December 28, 1995, EchoStar successfully launched its first satellite, EchoStar I.

In 1998, EchoStar purchased the broadcasting assets of a satellite broadcasting joint venture of News Corporation's ASkyB and MCI Worldcom.

With this purchase EchoStar obtained 28 of the 32 transponder licenses in the 110 ° West orbital slot, more than doubling existing continental United States broadcasting capacity at a value of $ 682. 5 million.

In January 2005, EchoStar bought the broadcasting assets of the troubled HDTV satellite provider Voom, including its Rainbow 1 satellite co-located with EchoStar 3 at 61. 5 ° West.

Of course the fighting was officially under the auspices of the United Nations.

First thing I did after my twenty-first birthday was go into court and have it officially changed, and this is something I don't tell everybody.

The document could not become officially effective until it was ratified by all 13 colonies.

A port was in development for the 5200 and advertised as a launch title but never officially released, although an unofficial release was produced by AtariAge.

Poirot thus was forced to kill the man himself as otherwise he would have continued his actions and never been officially convicted.

South Australia was officially proclaimed as a new British colony on 28 December 1836, near The Old Gum Tree in what is now the suburb of Glenelg North.

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

The main treaty was opened for signature on December 1, 1959, and officially entered into force on June 23, 1961.

During the Akkadian period, the Akkadian language became the lingua franca of the Middle East, and was officially used for administration, although the Sumerian language remained as a spoken and literary language.

The area was so remote that the border between North and South Carolina had not officially been surveyed.

This honor was intended, in part, to commemorate the diplomatic and trading history which existed long before other Western nations were officially aware of Japan's existence.

On 1 January 1966 Selkirk's island was officially renamed Robinson Crusoe Island.

Each signed the league's constitution, and the National League was officially born.

He was swiftly discharged, officially on medical grounds, but it is suggested that a doctor who noticed his reluctance to join the Armed Forces deliberately failed the medical as a favour.

On December 10, 2007, Vick received a 23-month prison sentence and was officially cut from the Atlanta roster.

Ælfheah (, " elf-high "; 954 – 19 April 1012 ), officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

After the November 2000 G8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into " green " ( permitted ), " yellow " ( not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest ), and " red " ( involving direct confrontation ) zones was introduced.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

The event was recorded as suicide officially and he was buried in Istanbul.

At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as Amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.