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10.53 Amendment No. 15 to License and OEM Manufacturing Agreement, dated July 1, 2002, between
EchoStar Satellite Corporation, EchoStar Technologies Corporation and Thomson multimedia, Inc.
10.54 Amendment No. 16 to License and OEM Manufacturing Agreement, dated July 1, 2002, between
EchoStar Satellite Corporation, EchoStar Technologies Corporation and Thomson multimedia, Inc.
10.55 Amendment No. 17 to License and OEM Manufacturing Agreement, dated July 1, 2002, between
EchoStar Satellite Corporation, EchoStar Technologies Corporation and Thomson multimedia, Inc.
10.56 Amendment No. 18 to License and OEM Manufacturing Agreement, dated July 1, 2002, between
EchoStar Satellite Corporation, EchoStar Technologies Corporation and Thomson multimedia, Inc.
10.57 Amendment No. 19 to License and OEM Manufacturing Agreement, dated July 1, 2002, between
EchoStar Satellite Corporation, EchoStar Technologies Corporation and Thomson multimedia, Inc.
21 Subsidiaries of EchoStar Communications Corporation.
23.1 Consent of KPMG LLP, Independent Public Accountants.
24.1 Powers of Attorney authorizing signature of Cantey Ergen, Raymond L. Friedlob, O. Nolan Daines,
Peter A. Dea, Jean-Marie Messier and Steven R. Goodbarn.
_____________
Filed herewith.
* Incorporated by reference.
** Constitutes a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
*** Filed in redacted form since confidential treatment has been requested pursuant to Rule 24.b-2 for certain
portions thereof. A conforming electronic copy is filed herewith.
(b) Reports on Form 8-K
On November 5, 2002, we filed a Current Report on Form 8-K to report that on November 5, 2002, our
subsidiary, EchoStar DBS Corporation, completed its offer to exchange all of the $1 billion principal outstanding of
EchoStar Broadband Corporation’s 10 3/8% Senior Notes due 2007 for substantially identical notes of EDBS.
On November 14, 2002, we filed a Current Report on Form 8-K in connection with the filing of our
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2002 stating that our Chief Executive Officer and
our Chief Financial Officer certified our report pursuant to 18 U.S.C. ss. 1350, as adopted pursuant to ss. 906 of the
Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002.
On December 10, 2002, we filed a Current Report on Form 8-K to announce that we had entered into a
settlement agreement with General Motors and its subsidiary, Hughes Electronics Corporation, to terminate the
proposed merger of Hughes and EchoStar.
On December 18, 2002, we filed a Current Report on Form 8-K to announce our agreement to repurchase
Vivendi Universal’s equity stake in EchoStar.
On December 31, 2002, we filed a Current Report on Form 8-K to announce that our subsidiary EDBS
elected to retire all of its outstanding 9 ¼% Senior Notes due 2006, three years early pursuant to its optional early
redemption right.
On December 31, 2002, we filed a Current Report on Form 8-K to announce the appointment of Steven R.
Goodbarn to serve on the EchoStar Board of Directors and to serve as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board
of Directors.