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In November 1990, Primestar launched as the first North American direct-broadcast satellite service. Hughes's DirecTV, the first national high-powered upper K u -band satellite TV system, went online in 1994. The DirecTV system became the new delivery vehicle for USSB. In 1996, EchoStar 's Dish Network went online in the United States and has ...
Defunct. A coupon-eligible converter box ( CECB) was a digital television adapter that met eligibility specifications for subsidy "coupons" from the United States government. The subsidy program was enacted to provide terrestrial television viewers with an affordable way to continue receiving free digital terrestrial television services after ...
A carriage dispute took place between The Walt Disney Company and Charter Communications, the second-largest cable television provider in the United States, from August 31 to September 11, 2023. The Walt Disney Company removed its programming from Spectrum, Charter Communications's cable television label, during the duration of the dispute ...
Sports fans love to turn on the TV and watch baseball, football or hockey. Now they are monitoring a game of a different sort: a marathon ping-pong between cable and satellite distributors, sports ...
The act renewed statutory licenses that allow satellite TV companies to retransmit broadcast stations to their customers for five years. The licenses had been set to expire at the end of May 2010, and the bill also included measures to modernize and simplify licensing processes and encourage satellite providers to make more local content available.
EchoStar. ASNs. 6621, 63062. Website. www.Hughes.com. Hughes Network Systems, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar. [4] It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland and provides satellite internet service. [5] HughesNet has over a million subscribers in the Americas in late 2023, [6] down from 1.4 million in early 2022.
Satellite television. A number of satellite dishes. Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. [1] The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commonly referred to as a satellite dish and a ...
Carriage dispute. A carriage dispute is a disagreement over the right to "carry", that is, retransmit, a broadcaster's signal. Carriage disputes first occurred between broadcasters and cable companies and now include direct broadcast satellite and other multichannel video programming distributors . These disputes often involve financial ...