US Report: New Generation Set-top In The Works
News The new set-top is tailored for EchoStar's new satellite-TV subscribers (currently there are about 1.8 million) and could boost WebTV's base of some 700,000 subscribers. Vertically integrated EchoStar will manufacture the boxes, but how the two...
[January 6, 1999, 16:30]
Google Jumps Into TV Business
News Nielsen measures TV viewing at a sample of the 13.1 million households that DISH serves, but Google's system will measure viewing at all the households served, said Michael Kelly, executive vice president of advertising for EchoStar.
[April 3, 2007, 10:07]
CES: Name Change And First Product For Rearden Steel
News Satellite television company EchoStar, an early investor in Moxi Digital, is working to add Moxi's software to EchoStar's advanced satellite television receivers. EchoStar, America Online, Vulcan Ventures, Cisco Systems, The Washington Post...
[January 7, 2002, 15:27]
Satellite Plans For Premium Web And TV
News SES Global, Europe's largest satellite company, will lease a new satellite to EchoStar Communications, which plans to use it to broadcast many premium television channels and to offer high-speed Internet service.
[March 28, 2003, 15:06]
Direct Broadcast Sattellite
White Papers With the launch of a Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) system from EchoStar, and the continuing success of the DSS (DirecTV/USSB) system, as well as the cable-owned Primestar system, the choices can look bewildering.
[October 6, 2003, 23:54]
Slingbox! Party! Nibbles! Transistors!
Blog The bash was originally intended to celebrate the launch of new models (faster streaming, more inputs, HD compatibility, that sort of thing), but also served to mark the acquisition of Slingbox by EchoStar (a US satellite TV company).
[September 27, 2007, 22:51]
Alliance Promotes Networked Digital Home
News Founding members include networking giant Cisco Systems, cable provider Comcast, satellite provider EchoStar Communications, chipmaker Entropic Communications, retailer RadioShack and consumer electronics makers Panasonic, Motorola and Toshiba.
[January 6, 2004, 12:05]
Eye Opener: Microsoft's Living Room War - Part 2
News Cooperation between EchoStar and Microsoft will result in a WebTV-enabled satellite receiver that can also pause programming up to 30 minutes (shades of TiVo and Replay Networks), thanks to a very PC-ish hard drive.
[September 27, 1999, 14:09]
Wireless High-speed Access For Everyone?
News David Drucker, one of the original founders of satellite TV provider Echostar, founded iSky. Englewood, Colorado-based iSky.net intends to announce early next week plans to put a two-way communications satellite system in orbit by the end of 2001.
[January 18, 2000, 6:05]
Wireless High Speed Access For Everyone?
News David Drucker, one of the original founders of satellite TV provider Echostar, founded iSky. Englewood, Colorado-based iSky.net intends to announce early next week plans to put a two-way communications satellite system in orbit by the end of 2001.
[January 17, 2000, 6:05]
Google Celebrates 70 Percent Profit Rise
News The company is aggressively expanding its advertising platform to the offline world, including partnerships to sell ads to run on Clear Channel radio stations, on EchoStar Dish satellite TV network and in newspapers.
[April 20, 2007, 11:12]
Samsung's DVR Stores Hours Of TV
News More broadly, Samsung's product will be in competition with DVRs made by DirecTV rival EchoStar Communications for its satellite TV service, Ireland said. Samsung Electronics America is trying to make a big splash in the digital video recorder...
[August 28, 2003, 11:55]
Jury Decides First DMCA Conviction
News The operation, announced in February, targeted Whitehead and 16 other programmers suspected of selling wares that bypassed satellite TV systems provided by DirecTV and EchoStar's Dish Network. A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating...
[September 24, 2003, 16:40]
Is There A Future For Digital Video Recorders?
News More than half of the homes with DVR are signed up with satellite TV networks, such as DirecTV and EchoStar. Although the digital video recorder market is growing steadily, the sharp increase in shipments many had expected won't come to pass...
[October 3, 2002, 8:54]
DSL Makes Surprise Gain In Broadband Battle
News Realising they have no video offering to compete with cable, SBC and Qwest Communications inked deals with EchoStar's Dish Network to bundle into their service package for phone and data services. The broadband war between phone and cable companies...
[July 28, 2003, 16:43]
WebTV Founder's Next Act Unfolding
News In April 2001 the company received $67m for its first round of funding, led by America Online, the subsidiary of cable and Net giant AOL Time Warner; satellite company EchoStar; and networking titan Cisco Systems.
[January 2, 2002, 12:18]
The Day Ahead: Web Pioneer Spyglass Dies Happy
News OpenTV recently inked a deal with Echostar, and is supported by AOL, Liberty Digital, News Corporation, Time Warner and Sun Microsystems. OpenTV paid a hefty premium for Spyglass, the company that helped create the Web browser, in a stock deal...
[March 27, 2000, 13:09]
Major League Baseball Takes Swing At Sling Media
News In January, cable giant Liberty Media and satellite operator EchoStar Communications were part of a $46.6m (£25m) round of funding for the company. Major League Baseball wants Sling Media to stop slinging around the league's content.
[June 7, 2006, 11:10]
Digital Devices To Kill VCRs?
News ReplayTV is in a quiet period and has registered for an initial public offering later this year, so it could not announce details about other alliances, but it has received funding from the likes of Sega, EchoStar, Excite@Home, Scientic-Atlanta...
[May 18, 2000, 13:53]
Analysts: Microsoft Is Gunning For Google
News Meantime, Google has announced deals to deliver ads on Clear Channel radio stations and on EchoStar's Dish satellite TV networks, but has yet to announce a clear plan for monetising video, Weiner said.
[April 26, 2007, 10:58]
