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Article: Dish Network will serve up long-awaited local stations
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- November 19, 2002
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I finally got official word that the Dish Network plans to offer
local stations in the greater Colorado Springs and Puebtlo markes
beginning Friday.
Dish owners and disgruntled cable subscribers have been eagerly
awaiting this announcement since June, when an Echostar insider
tipped me off about the plan to put our local stations on the next
satellite it puts in orbit.
"Consumers in the Colorado Springs and Pueblo areas now have a
more complete alternative to their local cable providers," says
Michelle Portillo, a spokeswoman for Englewood-based Echostar,
provider of the Dish Network.
Unfortunately, not all the local channels will be available on the
Dish at first.
Only the local ABC ...