More than one-third of EchoStar Communications Corp.'s 6 million Dish Network subscribers can now get some form of interactivity, as OpenTV Corp. said it has passed the 2-million-home mark among Dish subscribers.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Multichannel News, September, 2001

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. -- More than one-third of EchoStar Communications Corp.'s 6 million Dish Network subscribers can now get some form of interactivity, as OpenTV Corp. said it has passed the 2-million-home mark among Dish subscribers. The main application available is localized weather information through Dish Instant Weather.

OpenTV has been largely stymied on the cable-operator front in the U.S., with only one deployment at USA Media Corp's Half Moon Bay, Calif., system. OpenTV is deployed in more than 18 million set-tops worldwide through a mix of cable and DBS operators including British Sky Broadcasting Corp. in the U.K. OpenTV said EchoStar's entire subscriber base could download is interactive software once middleware integration is completed.

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