The Art of the $1 Deal: Billionaire Charlie Ergen’s Latest Gamble
TV business to DirecTV, unloading a lot of debt. Now he needs to close the deal and rebuild by going all-in on wireless ...
Opinion | The Dish on Spectrum and Politics
Progressives are urging the Biden Administration to block DirecTV’s acquisition of satellite competitor Dish network. The ...
Ergen Still Needs Creditors He Once Spurned to Seal Dish-DirecTV Deal
Charlie Ergen’s decades-long dream to combine his satellite-TV company Dish Network Corp. with rival DirecTV hinges on the ...
DirecTV to buy debt-laden rival Dish for $1 after decades-long pursuit
DirecTV agreed to buy satellite rival Dish network Monday, ending decades of on-and-off talks in a deal that will create one ...
FCC delay to rollout of internet in rural communities slammed as ‘worst abuse’ by commissioner
The decision has been slammed by Commissioner Brendan Carr as “the worst abuse of agency process I have seen in my twelve ...
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Ergen will gain “greatest opportunity” by losing DISH
It should not be forgotten in the acres of business news coverage over the DirecTV (and TPG) acquisition of DISH Network that ...
DirecTV And Dish Merger Could Create The Largest Pay-TV Distributor
In this era of cord cutting the announced merger of DirecTV with Dish/Sling would result in 18 million subscribers, making it ...
DirecTV to Acquire Dish and Sling TV, Creating Largest U.S. TV Provider
The merger of EchoStar's video businesses and DirecTV will also coincide with TPG agreeing to buy out the 70 percent of ...
TPG takes on pay-TV bondholders to ride to Ergen’s rescue
TPG’s satellite TV provider, DirecTV, will acquire its arch-rival Dish Network from EchoStar. The official purchase price is ...
Dish and DirecTV Near a Deal to Combine (Again)
The companies are in talks to create one of the largest pay-TV providers in the country. In 2002, the U.S. government blocked ...
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Ergen Still Needs Creditors He Once Spurned to Seal Dish-DirecTV Deal
(Bloomberg) -- Charlie Ergen’s decades-long dream to combine his satellite-TV company Dish Network Corp. with rival DirecTV hangs on the willingness of creditors he has irked in the past to ...
Ergen Needs Creditors He Once Spurned to Seal Dish-DirecTV Deal
Charlie Ergen’s decades-long dream to combine his satellite-TV company Dish Network Corp. with rival DirecTV hinges on the willingness of creditors he has irked in the past to write off part of their ...