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Article: SATELLITE TV PUSHING FOR LOCAL STATIONS DISHNETWORK, TRI-STATE STATIONS WORKING TO GIVE SATELLITE SUBSCRIBERS WHAT THEY DON'T HAVE

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Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
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September 22, 2003
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A major satellite-television company wants to make local television broadcasts available to its Evansville-area subscribers.

DishNetwork, a division of EchoStar Communications and a leading provider of satellite television nationwide, is negotiating with the Tri-State's four commercial television stations in an effort to reach agreement on adding the local broadcasts.

If talks succeed, the offering of local broadcasts to satellite television subscribers would allow DishNetwork to leap one of the major hurdles facing satellite TV -- the inability to bring local TV broadcasts to satellite-TV subscribers, said Michelle Portillo, a spokeswoman for DishNetwork.

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