Dish Network
| Dish Network Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US25470M1099 |
| founding | 1996 |
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Meridian , ( Douglas County ), Colorado, United States
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| Number of employees | 19,000 (2014) |
| sales | 11.04 billion euros (2014) |
| Branch | Satellite television , internet access via satellite |
| Website | www.dish.com |
The Dish Network Corporation is an American television satellite operator for receiving satellite television and the Internet via satellite . For this purpose, the company also markets corresponding set-top boxes and hard disk recorders from the “Hopper” and “DISH anywhere” brands as well as the portable satellite antenna Tailgater.
DISH Network was founded in 1996 by Charles Ergen , Jim DeFranco and Candy Ergen and is based in Meridian , ( Douglas County ), Colorado, USA. In 2011, the company employed around 34,000 people and had sales of $ 14.27 billion.
On January 2, 2008, the Dish Network business was separated from the rest of the EchoStar business , creating two companies: the DISH Network Corporation (consisting essentially of the DISH Network business) and the Echostar Corporation (which includes the technology business the satellite, sling media, and set-top box development reserves).
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- ↑ a b Handelsblatt , No. 105 of 5./6./7. June 2015, p. 8.