DishNetwork on C-Band?

[Nyth]

This was a new one on me. I did an installation for a returning customer. (They were switching back from D* - long story about BestBuy and an HD Tivo unit). Anyway, they had an odd account number and they told me that they used to have DishNetwork on a BIG dish using a 4D receiver. Now, I knew that Echostar has been around since about 1981 and there are still Echostar brand C-Band receivers out there (E-bay!), but I never heard of DishNetwork as a program provider on C-band (Ku-band also?). When I closed out the work order with the CSR in Tulsa he stated that yes they do service some big dish customers out of his office.

My questions are as follows:

1. Is anybody else familiar with this? Is this similar to Skyvision or NPS?

2. How long did they offer this service?

3. Is this still available to new customers?

 

[boba]

It isn't DISH Network that was delivered on "C" Band. They sold programming that was decoded with Videocipher or Digicipher. In fact it was through NPS.