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Volume 3 Issue 10December 2000

California Community Colleges Satellite Network

CCCSAT Staff

Utilizing the vast resources of the California Community College (CCC) system, the CCCSAT channel, called the Community College Network (CCN, Channel 9405), will provide informational, educational, and enrichment programming airing 24 hours daily, 7 days a week to over five million households.

CCCSAT is an $8.5 million program established by the Chancellor's Office of the California Communty College system. The CCCSAT Network provides broadcasting infrastructure to connect all 107 California Community Colleges. The DISH Network public access channel will extend the CCC system outreach and offer a variety of quality programming to a national audience.

Echostar Communications is the parent company of DISH Network. The company and its subsidiaries deliver direct broadcast satellite products and services to customers worldwide. New public interest channels are being made available by EchoStar Communications, as a result of a recent FCC ruling requiring direct broadcast satellite providers to reserve certain channel capacity for non-commercial educational and informational programming.