Trying to get the Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a nationwide injunction that prohibits them from transmitting network television signals, the EchoStar Communications Corp. (DISH) was denied the opportunity.
The issue centered around the Federal law that lets satellite television companies to provide these signals to places that aren't able to receive local network broadcasts. Most of these potential customers are rural residents outside normal broadcast areas.
What Echostar did though, according to complaints by News Corp. (NWS), NBC (GE), ABC (DIS) and CBS (CBS) was to provide signals in areas that consumers were able to receive signals from regular local broadcasts.
EchoStar alleged that the injunction wrongly kept 850,000 eligible customers from receiving their signal.
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