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SCHEDULE 13G
Amendment No. 2
Echostar Communications Corporation
Class A Common Stock
Cusip # 278762109
Cusip # 278762109
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR Corp. - (Tax ID: 04-2507163)
Item 4: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 5: 116,924
Item 6: None
Item 7: 2,685,755
Item 8: None
Item 9: 2,685,755
Item 11: 16.97%
Item 12: HC
Cusip # 278762109
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: None
Item 6: None
Item 7: 2,685,755
Item 8: None
Item 9: 2,685,755
Item 11: 16.97%
Item 12: IN
Cusip # 278762109
Item 1: Reporting Person - Abigail P. Johnson
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: None
Item 6: None
Item 7: 2,685,755
Item 8: None
Item 9: 2,685,755
Item 11: 16.97%
Item 12: IN
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:
Echostar Communications Corporation
Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
90 Inverness Circle East
Englewood, CO 80112
Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:
FMR Corp.
Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None, Residence:
82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Item 2(c). Citizenship:
Not applicable
Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:
Class A Common Stock
Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:
278762109
Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b) and the
person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent holding company in accordance
with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See Item 7).
Item 4. Ownership
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned:
2,685,755
(b) Percent of Class:
16.97%
(c) Number of shares as to which such person has:
(i) sole power to vote or to direct the vote:
116,924
(ii) shared power to vote or to direct the vote:
None
(iii) sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
2,685,755
(iv) shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
None
Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another Person.
Various persons have the right to receive or the power to
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the
sale of, the Class A common stock of Echostar Communications
Corporation. The interest of one person, Fidelity Capital &
Income Fund, an investment company registered under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, in the Class A common stock of
Echostar Communications Corporation, amounted to 967,067 shares
or 6.11% of the total outstanding Class A common stock at
October 31, 1997. The number of shares of Class A common
stock of Echostar Communications Corporation owned by Fidelity
Capital & Income Fund at October 31, 1997 included 69,744
shares of Class A common stock resulting from the assumed
conversion of 34,000 shares of 6.75% Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock (2.0513 shares of Class A common stock for each
share of 6.75% Series C Convertible Preferred Stock).
Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which Acquired
the Security Being Reported on By the Parent Holding Company.
See attached Exhibit(s) A and B.
Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of the Group.
Not applicable, see attached Exhibit A.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Certification.
By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in
the ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the
purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and
were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any
transaction having such purpose or effect.
Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this
Schedule 13G in connection with FMR Corp.'s beneficial
ownership of the Class A common stock of Echostar
Communications Corporation at October 31, 1997 is true,
complete and correct.
November 10, 1997
Date
/s/Arthur S. Loring
Signature
Arthur S. Loring, Vice
President
Name/Title
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G, Fidelity
Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an investment
adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,
is the beneficial owner of 2,538,061 shares or 16.03% of the Class A common
stock outstanding of Echostar Communications Corporation ("the Company") as a
result of acting as investment adviser to various investment companies
registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940. The number
of shares of Class A common stock of Echostar Communications Corporation owned
by the investment companies at October 31, 1997 included 711,801 shares of
Class A common stock resulting from the assumed conversion of 347,000 shares
of 6.75% Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (2.0513 shares of Class A
common stock for each share of the 6.75% Series C Convertible Preferred
Stock).
The ownership of one investment company, Fidelity Capital & Income Fund,
amounted to 967,067 shares or 6.11% of the Class A common stock outstanding.
Fidelity Capital & Income Fund has its principal business office at 82
Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. The number of shares of Class
A common stock of Echostar Communications Corporation owned by the investment
companies at October 31, 1997 included 69,744 shares of Class A common stock
resulting from the assumed conversion of 34,000 shares of 6.75% Series C
Convertible Preferred Stock (2.0513 shares of Class A common stock for each
share of the 6.75% Series C Convertible Preferred Stock).
Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity, and the
funds each has sole power to dispose of the 2,538,061 shares owned by the
Funds.
Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d, Chairman of FMR Corp., has
the sole power to vote or direct the voting of the shares owned directly by
the Fidelity Funds, which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written guidelines
established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity Management Trust Company, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and a bank as
defined in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is the
beneficial owner of 147,694 shares or 0.93% of the Class A common stock
outstanding of the Company as a result of its serving as investment manager of
the institutional account(s). The number of shares of Class A common stock of
Echostar Communications Corporation owned by the institutional account(s) at
October 31, 1997 included 147,694 shares of Class A common stock resulting
from the assumed conversion of 72,000 shares of the 6.75% Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock described above.
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity
Management Trust Company, each has sole dispositive power over 147,694 shares
and sole power to vote or to direct the voting of 116,924 shares, and no power
to vote or to direct the voting of 30,770 shares of Class A common stock owned
by the institutional account(s) as reported above.
Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family and trusts for their benefit
are the predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock of FMR Corp.,
representing approximately 49% of the voting power of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson
3d owns 12.0% and Abigail Johnson owns 24.5% of the aggregate outstanding
voting stock of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of FMR Corp. and Abigail
P. Johnson is a Director of FMR Corp. The Johnson family group and all other
Class B shareholders have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under
which all Class B shares will be voted in accordance with the majority vote of
Class B shares. Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common stock
and the execution of the shareholders' voting agreement, members of the
Johnson family may be deemed, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to
form a controlling group with respect to FMR Corp.
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
RULE 13d-1(f)(1) AGREEMENT
The undersigned persons, on November 10, 1997, agree and consent to the
joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule 13G in connection with their
beneficial ownership of the Class A common stock of Echostar Communications
Corporation at October 31, 1997.
FMR Corp.
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Vice President - Legal
Edward C. Johnson 3d
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Under Power of Attorney dated
5/17/89
On File with Schedule 13G for
Airborne Freight Corp. 9/10/91
Abigail P. Johnson
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Under Power of Attorney dated
1/5/96
On File with Schedule 13G for
Acclaim Entertainment Inc.
1/10/96
Fidelity Management & Research Company
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Sr. V.P. and General Counsel
Fidelity Capital & Income Fund
By /s/Arthur S. Loring
Arthur S. Loring
Secretary