--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Evening Bridge - February 17, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP STORY -- EchoStar Communications announced that its subsidiary, EchoStar DBS Corporation, today completed the previously announced redemption of all of its outstanding 9 1/8 percent Senior Notes due 2009. In accordance with the terms of the notes, the outstanding principal amount of approximately $442 million was repurchased at 104.563 percent, for a total of approximately $462 million.
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