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| | Satellite TV Basic Information for DIRECTV, and Dish Network Satellite Systems from RCA, Hughes, Echostar, Dish Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20) |
 | | Communications satellites were originally designed for commercial purposes for sending telephone, radio, TV, and other signals across the country and around the world for re-transmission to businesses and homes by local telephone companies, TV stations, or cable companies. |
 | | Enterprising individuals soon learned to build satellite dish receivers to pick up these signals at their own home, and begin making and selling these systems to homeowners around the country, thus beginning the era of home satellite TV. |
 | | As home satellite systems became more popular, programmers such as HBO and others realized that they could not continue to give away their programs free to millions of home dish owners. |
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