Company hopes new satellite is successful
By Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published July 15, 2008 at 9:05 p.m.
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Dish Network Corp. had hopes for a successful launch of a satellite scheduled for late Tuesday night.
The country's second-largest satellite TV provider experienced a failure earlier this year, forcing it to rejigger programming to keep on track with its plan to offer 100 national high-definition channels this year.
That goal is being reached this summer. But, in the meantime, the company has experienced record-low subscriber growth, customer-service issues and recently lost a 5-year-old partnership with AT&T.
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