DISH Network L.L.C

OUR MISSION.

To be the very best at delivering video anywhere, anytime.

QUICK FACTS.

• Provides satellite TV to approximately 14 million subscribers
• Offers the highest quality programming and technology with the most choices at the best value.
• Leads the pay-TV industry in state-of-the-art equipment and technology
• Provides the most international channels, and award-winning HD and DVR technology.
• Revenues realized a 5.5% increase in 2013, surpassing $13.9 billion.
• Publicly traded on the NASDAQ Exchange, ticker symbol DISH
• Employs more than 22,000 people in the U.S.
• Headquartered in Englewood, Colo.

DISH STORY.

Ditches.

Three people – Charlie Ergen, Candy Ergen and Jim DeFranco – were hauling an enormous C-band TV dish antenna via pickup truck to a customer in remote Colorado. In the early 1980s this was one of only two dish antennas owned by the developing new business. A powerful gust of wind whipped up, blowing the antenna off its trailer and into a roadside ditch. There goes half of the company.

Summed up as a bad day in the infancy of DISH, the founding trio overcame this setback to build what is now a Fortune 250 company that employs thousands and serves millions throughout the nation – a seemingly unlikely future on that blustery day.