Dish Network Information

Dish Network is a company that offers a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service which sends digital satellite tv and digital audio to dish system owners in the United States. Dish Network is owned by Echostar.

In March of 1996 the Dish Network was officially launched. Their main competition in the United States satellite dish market is DIRECTV. In the beginning, Dish Network made use of an 18-inch satellite dish that they called the Dish 300. This system allowed customers to be able to receive a signal from one satellite location.

Today, Dish Network makes use of a 20-inch mini satellite dish that they call the Dish 500. This new dish lets customers receive their satellite signals from two different satellite locations at the same time. They are also introducing the "SuperDish" which is a little bit bigger at 36"×20" and they have the ability to receive satellite signals from three satellite locations at the same time. The SuperDish as well as the Dish 500 are starting to become more popular as Dish Network attempts to squeeze a greater degree of programming onto their systems. This is especially true for local and national U.S. tv network stations as well as for foreign programming.

Dish Network started to provide in-flight satellite tv service to the American airline Song in 2003. In 2004 the Dish Network came out with another innovation when they included selected music channels from the Sirius Satellite Radio Network's audio pack.

Dish Network is by far the most popular and fastest growing DBS (direct broadcast satellite) dish tv service. This popularity is garnered through broadcasting their digital quality audio and video signals right to the mini dishes that are found on the homes of millions of Americans. Direct broadcast satellite, or DBS, is a fairly new technological advancement in the world of tv broadcasting.

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