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More to come. This is from the Dish Network site. Could PEG-like Satellite AccessChannels? be made available for NWA? (Some TelecomWatch comments at NWASatelliteAccessChannels.)

DISH Network Satellite Television Brings Local TV Channels to Ft. Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rodgers

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2003--EchoStar? Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH - News) announced today that its DISH Network(TM) now offers local TV channels by satellite television to Ft. Smith-Fayetteville, Ark. The following local TV channels are offered: ABC Ch. 40 (KHBS), CBS Ch. 5 (KFSM), NBC Ch. 24 (KPOM), FOX Ch. 46 (KPBI), and PBS Ch. 13 (KAFT). This is the first time local TV channels are available by satellite TV in the Ft. Smith-Fayetteville area, providing an alternative to local cable TV service. Local channels will be offered at $5.99 per month for DISH Network customers in Ft. Smith-Fayetteville. DISH Network also provides digital video recording technologies and high definition TV channels to Ft. Smith-Fayetteville.

"Television viewers in Ft. Smith-Fayetteville now have an obvious, money-saving alternative to cable by switching to the lowest priced service in the nation," said Michael Schwimmer, senior vice president of Programming at EchoStar?. "We think the American consumer is tired of piggish cable companies that eat them out of house and home with their ever increasing costly rates. DISH Network's 100 percent digital quality, channel selection and now Ft. Smith-Fayetteville news, sports and weather give customers a good reason to switch to our satellite service."

DISH Network offers local channels via satellite to Ft. Smith-Fayetteville customers in 9 Arkansas counties including: Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Madison, Scott, Sebastian and Washington. Le Flore and Sequoyah counties in Oklahoma will also receive Ft. Smith-Fayetteville local channels.

With the addition of Ft. Smith-Fayetteville, DISH Network offers local channels in a total of 94 cities and their metro areas nationwide.

DISH Network offers consumers the lowest all digital TV package price in America at only $24.99 per month for more than 50 popular TV channels such as ESPN, Discovery, CNN and the Food Network. DISH Network guarantees the lowest all digital TV price through January 2005. DISH Network now offers new customers three free months of its DISH Network Value Pak with HBO and Cinemax, a savings of approximately $150. The DISH Network Value Pak of America's Top 100 channel package provides 132 channels of America's most popular programming, including 13 premium movie channels of HBO and Cinemax for $49.99 per month.

For more information on DISH Network, visit www.dishnetwork.com, call 1-800/333-DISH (3474), or contact your local DISH Network retailer.

For downloadable, print quality images of DISH Network equipment, installations or the DISH Network logo, visit www.dishnetwork.com/content/aboutus/presskit/print/index.shtml.