We've heard you
since the beginning...
2016
Don't watch? Don't pay.
DISH introduces teh Flex PackTM, where viewers can create their own TV package based on what they love to watch - with the ability to add and drop Channel Packs any time they want.
2016
Say goodbye to TV conflicts.
DISH unveils Hopper 3 Smart DVR with 4K-compatibility, and the ability to record up to 16 shows at once. TV lovers get the most advanced DVR ever to record all their shows, binge-watch freely and have more recording space than ever before.
2015
No more bill increases.
The 2-Year TV Price Guarantee is launched, giving viewers the same price on their TV package for 24-months of worry-free TV.
2014
No more switching remotes.
DISH becomes the first pay-TV provider to integrate Netflix into its Hopper letting people access their favorite Netflix shows and movies easier than ever.
2013
TV goes wireless.
The Wireless Joey debuts making unsightly TV cords and wires a thing of the past. Viewers can now put their TVs anywhere there is a power outlet.
2012
Commercial-free
whole-home entertainment
DISH introduces AutoHop®, and the Hopper® and Joey® whole-home HD DVR system. With the AutoHop® feature, viewers get commercial-free TV by skipping commercials faster. While the Hopper® and Joey® give TV lovers the ability to watch their recorded shows in HD in any room.
2009
Live TV. Anytime.
Anywhere.
DISH Anywhere is born, giving viewers 100% of their live and recorded entertainment on the go.
2005
TV in any room
DISH introduces the DISH Player-DVR 942, the first multi-room satellite TV receiver that records in high definition*, and gives families everywhere the ability to watch TV in whichever room they want. *HD in one room only
2001
Never miss a show.
The DVR is born. DISH introduces a satellite-TV receiver with a new and improved personal video recorder, and changes the way people record and watch TV forever.
1995
Echo I brings
satellite TV to all.
The Echo I satellite launches and provides TV for Americans all across the country.
1995 - 1980
1980
1994
Where it all started.
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.
