The chairman of Dish Networks toned down some of his recent rhetoric against broadcasters on today’s earnings call, and said he is in favor of a subscriber-advertising model for TV. Read more at paidContent »
Dish Network’s Charlie Ergen is taking on Japan’s Softbank and has decided to make a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint. Softbank wants to buy about 30 percent of Sprint for about $20.1 billion. Read more »
Dish has reportedly been talking to Aereo – but the satellite provider doesn’t want broadcasters to know what those talks were about. Read more at paidContent »
Dish Networks is selling a controversial device called the Hopper that lets viewers skip commercials. Company chairman Charlie Ergen said TV watching is changing and that Dish is not using the Hopper to extract lower fees from broadcasters. Read more at paidContent »
Pay TV providers tend to argue that cord cutting doesn’t exist. Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen doesn’t agree. Read more »
Dish Network isn’t taking Sprint’s takeover of Clearwire lying down. The company has submitted a bid to acquire all or part of Clearwire at a price 11 percent higher than Sprint is offering. Are we witnessing a bidding war or two telecom giants posturing? Read more »
If Sprint really wants to buy Clearwire, why did it low-ball its offer, and why is Softbank reportedly choking off Sprint’s bargaining power? Analyst Tim Farrar thinks there is more to this deal, and many other related ones, than meet the eye. Read more »
A day after Charlie Ergen and Dish said they’re getting along just fine without AMC’s Emmy beloved shows, the channel operator admits it’s going to take a big hit during its next earnings report. Read more at paidContent »
A regulatory filing shows Dish invested in $396 million in an unnamed company. Analysts believe that company is Clearwire and that dish could be preparing to partner with the ailing WiMAX provider to build its new LTE network — that is if gets permission to build. Read more »
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen defended his company’s controversial new commercial-skipping feature as a necessary innovation amid a sea change in video delivery. Oh, and he also conceded that it won’t hurt Dish when it comes to broadcast retransmission talks. Read more at paidContent »
As executives for Time Warner Cable and other multi-channel TV service providers also take it to task for its new commercial-skipping DVR, Dish Network defends its new offering, calling it a “win-win” that makes subscribers watch even more broadcast television. Read more at paidContent »
Dish Network has taken possession of it’s 4G spectrum and it’s ready to deliver its competitive mobile broadband network – in 2016. In a filing with the FCC, Dish basically asked the FCC for the granddaddy of all extensions for turning in its LTE homework assignments. Read more »
Speaking to investors during Dish Network’s Q1 conference call Monday, Dish chairman Charlie Ergen said the reason his company hasn’t reached a carriage renewal agreement with AMC stems from the fact that the cable programmer has “devalued” its content through its streaming deals. Read more at paidContent »
Report after report points to AT&T marrying Dish Network after Ma Bell’s forced break up with T-Mobile, but given the companies’ increasing belligerence, you wouldn’t think that was the case. What we’re witnessing here is some very cynical pre-nuptial gamesmanship. Read more »
