Satellite TV Information

A satellite TV system is a very technical, highly complex system of equipment including a satellite uplink station, the satellite out in space orbiting in a geosyncronous orbit 22,300 miles above the earth's equator, the small mini-dish receiving unit located on a house or business and last the receiver (black box) that connects to your television and allows you to view the satellite programming.

EchoStar Communications Corporation, the parent company of DISH Network was formed back in 1980 by CEO and Chairman Charles W. Ergen originally to distribute Television systems. EchoStar is a public company with over 21,000 employees and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. On December 28, 1995 EchoStar successfully launched its first satellite, EchoStar I. The successful launch of EchoStar I came after several failed launch attempts.

H. Taylor Howard a Stanford University Professor and former NASA scientist Emeritus, who is generally acknowledged as the 'Father of Satellite TV'. Howard designed and built the first satellite antenna and receiver in his San Andreas, California garage in 1976. Howard died in a plane crash in 2002 at the age of 70. Now 32 years after Howards invention, it is doubtful that he could have envisioned the quantum leap that satellite TV technology has made.

Alot of people have been signing up in recent years for satellite TV service. Many of these people once had cable service but decided to switch to satellite. The DISH Network Corporation said in January of this year that it had now gone over the 13 million mark for U.S. households that used their service. What is it that so many Americans see in satellite TV technology that they weren't getting from their old cable company? This article will try and uncover some of the reasons.

You hear the phrase "free satellite TV" alot lately. Some people think it means stealing satellite signals from one of the satellite providers. Others think it must mean that the programming offered is free. While still others just aren't sure at all what "free satellite TV" means. This article will explain exactly what both DISH Network and DIRECTV mean when they refer to their free satellite TV offers.

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