DISH Launches Game Finder App

[Scott Greczkowski]

DISH’s Game Finder App Alerts Fans To Games With Best Action As It Happens, Tracks Scores On Screen

View scores of favorite teams and leagues on TV without missing a play
Track trending games based on Thuuz excitement monitoring
Switch between multiple games, set reminders, record upcoming games

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 13, 2012 – DISH has launched the new Game Finder app, a simple interactive feature that allows viewers to navigate and watch the best games using their Hopper™ Whole-Home HD DVR. With so many games to choose from, Game Finder offers fans a way to watch and follow the most exciting games on TV.

Additionally, Game Finder incorporates Thuuz Sports’ excitement ratings and enables viewers to track scores of every game across the NFL, NCAAF, MLB, NBA, NCAABB and NHL.

Available now at no additional charge, Game Finder enhances the sports experience on the Hopper by bringing scores and games across every network in one location. While watching TV, viewers can select their favorite teams, follow up-to-the-minute box scores of individual games, watch two games at a time with picture-in-picture (PiP), schedule recordings and set reminders for upcoming games. Customers can also discover games they are not subscribed to and upgrade their subscription and watch these games with a click of the remote.

"Game Finder helps viewers sort through the clutter to find the hottest games and keep up with their favorite teams,” said Vivek Khemka, vice president of Product Management at DISH. "Increasingly with fantasy sports, fans are paying attention to numerous games at a time and our app provides a single source to track the rapidly changing events.”

Game Finder is the first interactive TV app that integrates excitement ratings for sports. The app’s integration of sports monitoring from Thuuz alerts viewers to popular, trending games. Thuuz monitoring uses real-time analytics of hundreds of data inputs to alert viewers to the most exciting sporting events. Thuuz rates the excitement of live and upcoming games on a simple scale of 0-100 to highlight viewing trends and signal the most popular events.

"The inclusion of Thuuz ratings drives viewers to the best sports action as it happens on TV, elevating Game Finder above the numerous other score tracking tools that exist,” said Warren Packard, CEO and co-founder of Thuuz. “Our rating system keeps you in front of the action, making sure you never miss the most exciting games and giving you the edge within your fantasy league.”

DISH’s Game Finder app is an innovation inspired by customer need. Developers at DISH designed the app around a call center technology used to respond to questions from customers active in fantasy sports leagues. With further development and the addition of Thuuz ratings, they created an innovative, streamlined resource available directly on customers’ TV screens. DISH is currently the only pay-TV provider to offer a sports app this extensive to customers through their set top box.

Hopper customers can access Game Finder App by pressing the blue button on the remote while watching TV, picking Game Finder and clicking Select.

To learn more about the DISH products, including Game Finder and the Hopper system, visit
www.dish.com

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[Scott Greczkowski]

Note: A number of SatelliteGuys members helped DISH test this exciting new app! On behalf of SatelliteGuys I would like to thank those testers for all their help! I know you helped out the DISH Interactive Team greatly!

Our thanks to DISH for allowing our members to test this app.

And a note to those testers... while the app has been officially released now it does not mean that testing is done. Testers will soon be getting updated versions of this app to test as DISH continues to refine this app. Those testers should continue to check the private testers forum for updates.

Thanks again to all the testers and DISH!

[cosmo_kramer]

I've noticed they're a Gold sponsor of this site now...

[Scott Greczkowski]

I've noticed they're a Gold sponsor of this site now...

Nah they wanted to pay but I wouldn't let them. I am just honered they let our members help out in testing.

[ScottChez]

Now if Dish could just release a good weather app or spot beam based local weather scan channel, like they promised in a press release back when they had that dispute with the Weather channel and they switch to the Weather Nation channel.

[joekawasaki]

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Another new feature the 922 doesn't get. I think it might be time to upgrade.