A three-judge appeals panel ruled last week that EchoStar transmitted programming from distant local stations to customers who were not eligible to receive it

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

Dish Network subscribers and retailers who want StarBand high-speed Internet services will no longer be able to purchase the service through EchoStar Communications Corp. A notice on EchoStar's Website directs potential Web customers directly to the McLean, Va.-based StarBand Communications Corp. StarBand plans to ma

EchoStar's DISH network has unveiled a new "SuperDish" that will allow its subscribers to receive up to 50 HDTV channels. The 66-cm dish, capable of receiving satellite signals from three orbital locations will offer customers access to its regular channel lineup as well as local channels, HD channels and internationa

Consumers rights groups urged Congress to protect rural TV consumers who could lose their distant network TV signals.

U.S. Supreme Court upholds an earlier decision demanding that EchoStar turn off network feeds to distant markets.

Broadcasters' eight year-long campaign to force EchoStar to stop providing distant broadcast network signals to its customers could be over this week as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Court found in favor of the networks. The decision could force EchoStar's Dish network to drop distant network signals from A

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.