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.

According to EchoStar, Muzak's distribution provider, Muzak's business music service is broadcast on rented bandwidth from Echostar VII, in geostationary orbit at 119 degrees west longitude.

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

The 110-degree satellite is now named EchoStar West 110 and is the most commonly used satellite, along with 119 as both can be received with a single wide format parabolic dish, providing signal to North America.

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.

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 .”

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.

The other, 121-degree orbital slot provides local channels and international packages via K < sub > u </ sub > band from EchoStar 9, which is also known as ' Galaxy 23 / EchoStar 9 due to a joint partnership with Intelsat.

EchoStar 12 is still in orbit and located at 61. 5 degrees West longitude, over the Earth's Equator.

EchoStar was officially re-branded as Dish Network in March 1996.

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

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 ).

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

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 ).

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

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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

On April 29, EchoStar announced that it would expand its HDTV programming by adding the first 10 of 21 original Voom channels and mirror the channels on a CONUS slot.

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 ).

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 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 .”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

EchoStar Satellite L. L. C.

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.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

This is the key fact emerging from Sunday's national election.

But the key revelation is not new.

A romantic is one who thinks the world is divinely inspired and all he has to do is find the right key, and then divine justice and altruism will appear.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

otherwise, you'll have to spend a few minutes to either attach a suitable spring clip somewhere on the press head or fit the key to a length of light chain and fasten to the bottom of the motor mount so that the key is out of the way when not in use.

The key to effective marketing is wrapped up in defining your company's marketing problems realistically.

A new low capacity meter is the key that unlocks the situation at Oakwood Heights.

The phrasing is irregular, and the abrupt key changes have a primitive forcefulness.

Rangoni's first entrance is a musical shock, a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to what has preceded it.

The key to the world of geology is change ; ;

I submit that this is the key problem of international relations, that it always has been, that it always will be.

The soldiers are fighting and the Americans are helping, he said, but in the fight against the Pathet Lao the key factor is the villager himself.

The key to Protestant development, therefore, is economic integration of the nucleus of the congregation.

I said `` Darn it, that's the automatic signal that shows when the ignition key is on.

And the key to the suite is still missing ''.

Mr. Schaefer also recommended that the snow emergency route plan, under which parking is banned on key streets and cars are required to use snow tires or chains on them, should be `` strictly enforced ''.

`` Convenience is therefore the key to the housing market today.

A publicity release from Oregon Physicians Service, of which Harvey is president, quoted him as saying the welfare office move to Salem, instead of `` crippling '' the agency, had provided an avenue to correct administrative weaknesses, with the key being improved communications between F & A and the commission staff.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.