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The Emergency Response Information Network (ERIN), is a 24-hour hurricane TV channel set up by the Dish Network.^[1] It was formerly called the Katrina Information Network. Dish network set up the channel to provide information on missing people from Hurricane Katrina, but then changed the name before Hurricane Rita came ashore. Dish Network provides the channel free of charge to all Dish customers. Important phone numbers and other updates provided by hurricane relief agencies are shown in addition to the names of missing or dislocated children and adults.

ERIN is currently shown on channel 206,^[1] and was developed by Flying Colors Broadcasts, a Washington, D.C.-based company.

References

^ ^a ^b "DISH Network Hurricane Channel to Broaden Scope; Now Rita Information Added to Katrina Messages". DISH Network. Archived from the original on December 26, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2016.

[DIsh-1] "DISH Network Hurricane Channel to Broaden Scope; Now Rita Information Added to Katrina Messages". DISH Network. Archived from the original on December 26, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2016.

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 The '''Emergency Response Information Network''' (ERIN), is a 24-hour [[hurricane]] [[TV]] channel set up by the [[Dish Network]].<ref name=DIsh>{{cite web|title=DISH Network Hurricane Channel to Broaden Scope; Now Rita Information Added to Katrina Messages|url=http://about.dish.com/press-release/programming/dish-network-hurricane-channel-broaden-scope-now-rita-information-added--0|publisher=DISH Network|accessdate=December 25, 2016|archive-date=December 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226055536/http://about.dish.com/press-release/programming/dish-network-hurricane-channel-broaden-scope-now-rita-information-added--0|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was formerly called the Katrina Information Network. Dish network set up the channel to provide information on missing people from [[Hurricane Katrina]], but then changed the name before [[Hurricane Rita]] came ashore. Dish Network provides the channel free of charge to all Dish customers. Important phone numbers and other updates provided by hurricane relief agencies are shown in addition to the names of missing or dislocated children and adults.