EchoStar Is Denied Stay on Transmission Ban

EchoStar Communications Corp. failed to get an emergency stay from the U.S. Supreme Court on an order barring EchoStar’s Dish satellite service from transmitting the signals of network stations to customers outside the stations’ home markets.

The appeal, which Englewood, Colo.-based EchoStar had filed to try to freeze an 11th Circuit injunction, was rejected by Justice Clarence Thomas.

EchoStar hasn’t disclosed exactly how many customers get local TV channels from markets outside their own but said it was less than a million.