Dish network is an electronic service which provides satellite television, interactive television service and audio programming to households and business across the world. The parent company of dish network is Dish Network Corporation. It is a digital broadcast satellite service. Dish network was started in March 1996. It was started along with Direct TV, primarily competes with cable television providers in United States. Dish network was registered as a Nevada Corporation. The corporate office of Dish Network is based at Meridian, Colorado.

In 1980 EchoStar was formed by its CEO Charles W. Ergen as a distributor of TV systems. EchoStar I was the first successful satellite launched by EchoStar on December 28, 1995. After a series of failure EchoStar I was first commercial successful launching. It was launched from China. It was like a gamble. And in the same year EchoStar established the Dish Network brand name for marketing its home satellite TV system. Here DISH was used as an acronym for Digital Sky Highway.

In 2003, the U.S. airline started getting in-flight TV service form the Dish Network. And in 2004 music channels from Sirius Satellite Radio were added to Dish Network’s lineup. For providing broadband satellite internet of Starband, Dish Network was used. This partnership was made in 2003. Later on Dish network also signed an agreement with Wildblue for providing broadband via satellite. But the service is not available every where. It is available is selected areas only and it requires a separate two way dish antenna.

On January 4, 2006 Dish Network had crossed 12 million paid subscribers. In the last years Dish Network had added another 6.4 million new subscribers.

In 1992, a license was granted to EchoStar by the Federal Communications Commision for geostationary orbital slot 119 degree West longitude. EchoStar had obtained the broadcasting assets in 1999. It was a failed joined venture between ASkyB and MCI WorldCom, including 28 transponders at the 110 degee west orbital location.

For obtaining its signal from its diverse satellite fleet, Dish Network offers different types of satellite receiving equipment. These consumer boxes are manufactured by Sanmina-SCI Corporation to EchoStar specifications. Dish Network’s receivers were produced in factories at Huntsville, Alabama and Fountain, Colorado. And the receiver assembly takes place in Guadalaraja, Mexico.

The various receiving equipments are:

1. DISH 300: This was Dish Network’s first satellite antenna and was simply called Dish Network. It generally uses one LNB to obtain signals from the 119 degree West orbital locations. It is commonly used as a second dish to receive additional high-definition or ethnic programming from either the 148 degree West or 61.5 degree West orbital locations.

2. DISH 500: It was used to receive the signals of both orbital locations using one dish and an innovation dual-LNB assembly.

3. DISH 1000: For fulfilling the dream of nationwide high-definition television the EchoStar launched DISH 1000 for receiving signals from 110 degree West, 119 degree West, and 129 degree West orbitial locations.

Other than these the EchoStar had launched several other receiving equipments also. And now also day by day they are producing different types of receiving equipments.