EchoStar was able to get a court to delay a decision in its longstanding battle with broadcasters over the legality of transmitting network signals from out of market TV stations. The stay, imposed by the U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta gives EchoStar a reprieve after a Florida court in June ruled

Broadcasters cried foul this week as satellite broadcaster EchoStar attempted to avoid complying with a Dec. 1 deadline to shutoff distant broadcast signals to subscribers of the satellite provider's Dish Network service. For the better part of the last decade, the National Association of Broadcasters has been lea

A group of broadcasters accuses EchoStar of skirting a federal court order by allowing a separate programmer to offer network signals to some of its satellite TV customers.

Failure to properly use the results of FCC ILLR (Individual Location Longley-Rice) propagation analysis to determine whether households receiving programming from distant network stations were "unserved" by local network affiliates was a key component in the U.S. District Court for the southern district of Florida's ju

According to a nationwide injunction that was issued by U.S. District Judge William P. Dimitouleas in Fort Lauderdale, EchoStar Communications must stop selling out-of-market station feeds of ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox programming to 800,000 of its subscribers. The judgment will affect fewer than 1 million of EchoStar’s 12.

EchoStar said it would appeal several issues.

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) , in a letter to FCC Chairman Michael Powell, wrote that EchoStar's proposal to deliver DTV signals from the New York and Los Angeles ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC stations "would be a disaster for the Commission, the public, and broadcasters." NAB said that that "simple greed"

EchoStar’s challenge of the Longley-Rice model was again rejected by the court this week. In a unanimous opinion , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled against EchoStar’s arguments against the method by which the FCC determines what TV households qualify for distant signals. Households unable to receive