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Item 2. PROPERTIES
The following table sets forth certain information concerning our principal properties:
Description/Use/Location
Segment(s)
Using Property
Approximate
Square
Footage
Owned or
Leased
Corporate headquarters, Englewood, Colorado ................................................ All 476,000 Owned
EchoStar Technologies Corporation engineering offices and
service center, Englewood, Colorado.......................................................... ETC 150,000 Owned
EchoStar Technologies Corporation engineering offices,
Englewood, Colorado................................................................................... ETC 63,000 Owned
Digital broadcast operations center, Cheyenne, Wyoming ............................... DISH Network 123,000 Owned
Digital broadcast operations center, Gilbert, Arizona ...................................... DISH Network 120,000 Owned
Customer call center and data center, Littleton, Colorado ................................ DISH Network 202,000 Owned
Customer call center, warehouse and service center, El Paso, Texas ............... DISH Network 171,000 Owned
Customer call center, McKeesport, Pennsylvania ............................................ DISH Network 106,000 Leased
Customer call center, Christiansburg, Virginia ................................................. DISH Network 103,000 Owned
Customer call center and general offices, Tulsa, Oklahoma.............................. DISH Network 78,500 Leased
Customer call center and general offices, Pine Brook, New Jersey .................. DISH Network 67,000 Leased
Customer call center, Thornton, Colorado ....................................................... DISH Network 55,000 Owned
Customer call center, Harlingen, Texas............................................................. DISH Network 54,000 Owned
Customer call center, Bluefield, West Virginia ................................................ DISH Network 50,000 Owned
Warehouse, distribution and service center, Atlanta, Georgia .......................... DISH Network 144,000 Leased
Warehouse and distribution center, Denver, Colorado ..................................... DISH Network 163,000 Leased
Warehouse and distribution center, Sacramento, California ............................. DISH Network 82,000 Owned
Warehouse and distribution center, Dallas, Texas ............................................ DISH Network 80,000 Leased
Warehouse and distribution center, Chicago, Illinois ....................................... DISH Network 48,000 Leased
Warehouse and distribution center, Denver, Colorado ..................................... DISH Network 44,000 Owned
Warehouse and distribution center, Baltimore, Maryland................................. DISH Network 37,000 Leased
Engineering offices and warehouse, Almelo, The Netherlands ........................ All Other 55,000 Owned
In addition to the principal properties listed above, we operate several DISH Network service centers strategically
located in regions throughout the United States.
Item 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Distant Network Litigation
Until July 1998, we obtained feeds of distant broadcast network channels (ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX) for distribution
to our customers through PrimeTime 24. In December 1998, the United States District Court for the Southern District
of Florida in Miami entered a nationwide permanent injunction requiring PrimeTime 24 to shut off distant network
channels to many of its customers, and henceforth to sell those channels to consumers in accordance with the
injunction.
In October 1998, we filed a declaratory judgment action against ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX in the United States
District Court for the District of Colorado. We asked the Court to find that our method of providing distant network
programming did not violate SHVIA and hence did not infringe the networks’ copyrights. In November 1998, the
networks and their affiliate association groups filed a complaint against us in Miami Federal Court alleging, among
other things, copyright infringement. The Court combined the case that we filed in Colorado with the case in Miami
and transferred it to the Miami Federal Court.
In February 1999, the networks filed a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, Preliminary Injunction and Contempt
Finding against DirecTV, Inc. in Miami related to the delivery of distant network channels to DirecTV customers by
satellite. DirecTV settled that lawsuit with the networks. Under the terms of the settlement between DirecTV and the