DISH Network Satellite TV to Add Fox Sports World to America's Top 150 Programming Package

LITTLETON, Colo.--(BW SportsWire)--Nov. 2, 2000--EchoStar Communications Corp. (Nasdaq: DISH, DISHP):

FOX Sports World Brings DISH Network Customers Exciting International Soccer, Rugby, Cricket and More! EchoStar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH, DISHP) announced today that DISH Network™ will add Fox Sports World to America's Top 150 programming package beginning Nov. 8 at no additional cost to customers.

Fox Sports World (channel 149) is the first and only 24-hour, English-language international sports network in the United States. Fox Sports World delivers exclusive popular sporting events from around the world including coverage of major soccer tournaments, championship rugby, cricket and year-round sports news.

Soccer coverage on Fox Sports World includes regular season league and championship games of the top leagues from England, Italy, Holland, Chile and Argentina. Soccer tournament coverage also includes the 2002 World Cup Qualifiers, Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, UEFA Cup, Worthington Cup, Asian Super Cup, Asian Cup Winners Cup Finals and Asian Club Championship.

Rugby coverage includes complete season telecasts of Six Nations, Tri-Nations, Super 12, European Cup and other international matches. Other sports, such as Aussie Rules Football, Formula One Racing, World Championship Darts, Gymnastics, Cricket and the Gaelic Games, enhance the complete Fox Sports World international lineup.

"Fox Sports World is an extremely popular sports channel, and we are excited to offer it at absolutely no extra cost to our DISH Network customers who have chosen America's Top 150, the largest and best-valued basic package in television programming," said Michael Schwimmer, vice president of Programming at EchoStar.

"Fox Sports World is the only network in America that delivers the best international soccer leagues to the true aficionado," said Lindsay Gardner, executive vice president of Affiliate Sales and Marketing at Fox Cable Networks Group. "We're delighted that DISH Network is committing valuable channel space on its highly successful America's Top 150 programming package to our network."

America's Top 150 offers the most movies, sports, news, entertainment and family programming, as well as all the popular channels in America's Top 100 CD programming package, for one low price of $39.99 per month. This exciting programming package is available to DISH Network's DISH 500 customers.

For more information about America's Top 150 package or new DISH Network services, visit www.dishnetwork.com, call 1-800/333-DISH (3474), or contact your local DISH Network retailer.

Fox Sports World is affiliated with Fox Sports International, a venture between News Corporation Ltd. and Liberty Media Corporation. Visit Fox Sports World online at www.Foxsportsworld.com.

Fox Cable Networks Group, a wholly owned division of Fox Entertainment Group (NYSE:FOX), includes the more than 20 major domestic cable and satellite networks in which Fox Entertainment Group or News Corporation (NYSE:NWS) hold interests. Together these networks reach more than 245 million television homes, and represent one of the media industry's largest and most diverse groups of programming assets.

FCNG networks include Fox Sports Net; FX; National Geographic Channel; WebMD Television; Fox Movie Channel, Fox Sports World and Fox Sports World Espanol, as well as major partnerships in The Golf Channel, Outdoor Life and Speedvision, and Canada's leading group of regional sports networks, CTV Sportsnet.

DISH Network is a trademark of EchoStar Communications Corporation. DISH Network is EchoStar's state-of-the-art direct broadcast satellite TV system that is capable of offering over 500 channels of digital video and CD-quality audio programming, as well as fully MPEG-2/DVB compliant hardware and installation. DISH Network was ranked number one in overall customer satisfaction among cable/satellite TV subscribers by J.D. Power and Associates in 1999 and 2000.

EchoStar is included in the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) which contains the largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq Stock Market. DISH Network currently serves over 4.3 million customers. For more information visit www.dishnetwork.com or call 1-800/333-DISH (3474).

CONTACT: EchoStar Communications Corp., Littleton Judianne Atencio, 303/723-2010 [email protected] Marc Lumpkin, 303/723-2020 [email protected] or FOX Sports World Cindy Ronzoni, 310/444-8573 [email protected] Veronica Alvarez, 310/286-6329 [email protected]