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Dish exec could be months away from finalizing T-Mobile deal
Dish Network’s Charlie Ergen is taking his sweet time striking a deal to buy T-Mobile’s assets — a delay that is already creating a web of complications for T-Mobile’s planned...
Dish Network boss eyes creating 4th mobile carrier
Talks to create a No. 4 US wireless carrier are quickly picking up steam — and Charlie Ergen is poised to run the prospective telecom colossus. The maverick telecom tycoon...
Streaming services hastening demise of satellite TV giants
Satellite TV is dying more quickly than Wall Street thought. Cheap streaming services from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and YouTube are spurring surprisingly steep customer losses at Dish Network and DirecTV,...
Thousands of subscribers flee Dish Network for Netflix, Hulu
Dish Network suffered its worst subscriber loss in history as hundreds of thousands of customers continued to flee to cheaper options like Netflix and Hulu. The satellite-TV giant’s quarterly revenue...
HBO blackout could be start of trend: Dish Network
Dish Network turned off the lights on HBO and sister channel Cinemax early Thursday after the two sides failed to reach an agreement on their distribution deal. Dish blamed the...
Dish Network shares bolstered as results beat estimates
Investors had nothing to dish about Dish Network’s second-quarter performance, which beat Wall Street estimates on its top and bottom lines. The results, released early Friday, sent the satellite-TV provider’s...
Dish Network offers subscribers credit for pulled Univision channels
The deadlock between Univision and Dish Network doesn’t appear to be letting up. Dish will offer a $5-a-month credit to DishLATINO and Sling Latino package subscribers beginning Aug. 1, the...
Already struggling Univision suffers through third day of blackouts
Univision’s tough stretch continues. The largest Spanish-language network, already buffeted by declining ratings, on Monday suffered through its third day of being blacked out on Dish Network and Sling TV....
Dish chairman's trashing of CNN comes back to haunt
WASHINGTON — Charlie Ergen’s bravado is doing the Justice Department no favors. Dish Network's billionaire chairman boasted during a 2014 carriage dispute with Time Warner that his pay-TV service could...
Judge rules key DOJ witness can testify against AT&T-Time Warner merger
WASHINGTON — Judge Richard Leon may have saved the Justice Department’s bacon on Monday when he ruled a key government witness can testify and help it block AT&T’s $85 billion...
Dish Network just lost another 121K subscribers
Dish Network said it continues to bleed subscribers at its core satellite division — the latest sign of pain for pay-TV providers as cord cutters flock to the web. Shares...
Dish CEO Charlie Ergen is stepping down
Dish Network co-founder Charlie Ergen is leaving the helm of the satellite TV giant — again. Ergen — who had returned as chief executive in 2015 after taking three years...
CBS and Dish Network cut deal to end three-day blackout
CBS and Dish Network resolved a dispute over the fees the satellite TV provider pays to the broadcaster, ending a three-day blackout that affected customers across 26 states. CBS said...
Dish Network blacks out CBS stations
CBS’s TV stations were blacked out for Dish Network’s customers over a network carriage deal dispute, the companies said early Tuesday. Dish said in a statement that CBS rejected its...
AT&T's video subscriber losses slam cable stocks
AT&T’s stock got slammed Thursday after the telecom reported it lost 90,000 video subscribers in the third quarter. The decline in video subscribers renewed industrywide fears of cord-cutting and drove...
More than 22 million Americans to join cord cutting revolution
Winter is here for cable and satellite TV operators. American consumers are canceling traditional pay-TV service at a much faster rate than previously expected, according to research firm eMarketer. In...
Tribune Media gets hit by surging TV programming costs
US broadcaster Tribune Media, which agreed to be bought by Sinclair Broadcast Group, reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit, hurt by higher programming costs. Total programming costs rose 27.9 percent to...
Dish's Charlie Ergen rips Sinclair in protest over Tribune deal
If you think HBO talk show host John Oliver’s take-down of Sinclair Broadcast Group was vicious, wait till you read Charlie Ergen’s take on the Maryland-based TV company. While Oliver...
Dish Network loses fewer subscribers than Wall Street expected
Dish Network on Thursday reported quarterly results that missed analysts’ estimates, but the satellite television provider lost fewer subscribers than expected. Shares fell 1 percent to $62.97 in early Thursday...
Twitter is having an identity crisis
It got a lot harder on Monday to tell if Twitter is a micro-blogging site disguised as an over-the-top TV service — or vice versa. The San Francisco company, struggling...