First announced in early January at CES 2019, Dish is now rolling out Google Assistant to its Hopper line of receivers. The software update starts today, while the satellite television provider is ...

Customers with a DISH voice remote and a broadband-connected Hopper (all generations), Joey (all models) or Wally can access the Google Assistant once they receive the software update.

DISH designed the remote to interpret natural language, populating search results based on program title, actor or genre, and building contextual searches to narrow options, as desired.