Great Falls, VA, (August 26, 2004)- VMC Satellite, Inc. announced today that its total number of affiliate marketers passed the 100,000 milestone on August 26, 2004.

VMC Satellite's CEO, Rick Rahim, said "We've doubled our number of affiliates from under 50,000 in 2003 -- to over 100,000 people in 75 countries. We've spent years building the most advanced organization of satellite TV salespersons in the world. Thanks to the Internet, we've become a global organization"

All 100,000 of VMC's affiliates signed up for the free-to-join DISH Network marketing program on VMC's website at www.vmcsatellite.com. In the past 12 months, VMC has recruited an average of 150 new people to join its affiliate program every day. As many as 400 new affiliates have signed up in a single day. VMC pays out million of dollars in commissions to its affiliates each year.

VMC's affiliates are able to log in to a private section of the website and receive training, marketing support, and realtime tracking of website traffic, sales, payments, etc. VMC Satellite's list of affiliate satellite TV marketers is actually larger than the combined number of authorized satellite retailers in the USA for the major DBS providers and the cable TV industry as a whole.

In addition to the 100,000 affiliate milestone, vmcsatellite.com is expected to surpass 100 million hits to its website during September. A live hit counter can be viewed in the left margin of the website. (Use REFRESH in your browser to watch the counter increment.)

VMC Satellite, Inc. is the largest independently owned DISH Network/Echostar retailer. The company owns and operates more than 800 Internet domains, including www.satellite.com and www.vmcsatellite.com, the highest ranked satellite TV retailer website in the world. (Rankings can be obtained by visiting www.Alexa.com.)

Visitors to www.vmcsatellite.com can receive FREE Installation of a DISH Network Satellite TV system with no equipment to buy. DISH Network currently offers over 256 channels of available programming using an all digital Television signal. Through DISH Network, VMC offers local channels to over 90% of the U.S. population covering more than 140 major cities in the United States.

VMC Satellite, Inc. (www.vmcsatellite.com) is currently responsible for approximately 4% of Echostar's new subscribers and is the only company selected by the United States Government to install satellite TV service in Congress.