The Latest Breaking News from Charlie Ergen

Can't Buy SpaceX? Wall Street Says EchoStar Could Be the Backdoor Bet as Analyst Sees $161 Share Price

EchoStar's valuation is soaring with a 37% upside, driven by its strategic SpaceX stake. Learn how this satellite firm offers a unique investment opportunity following SpaceX's record-breaking IPO.

International Business Times UK · Jun 17

A dying satellite company sold spectrum to Elon Musk—and turned $11.1 billion in SpaceX stock into the Fortune 500's best shareholder return

“They've been the best company I've ever worked with in 45 years,” EchoStar president and cofounder Charlie Ergen said of SpaceX.

Fortune · Jun 4

Why Chase Ergen Is Betting on Blockchain, Policy - And Now, Humanoid Robotics

Born into a family that helped reshape the global telecommunications landscape, his father, Charlie Ergen, founded Dish Network and EchoStar, and Chase was exposed to the backbones of modern connectivity at an early age.

International Business Times · Sep 17, 2025

Top Boost Mobile Exec Abruptly Departs as Dish Touts Coverage of 200 Million Americans

Michael Kelly, who took the reigns on Dish Network’s fledgling wireless business last April, is departing the company at the end of February just as it touts a new coverage milestone

Multichannel News · Feb 23, 2024

Charlie Ergen Makes ‘Inscrutable’ Moves, Shields Parts of Dish Spectrum and Pay TV Biz From Existing Creditors

Equity analysts try to make sense of Dish/EchoStar chairman's latest ‘bewilderingly complicated’ strategery, fear ‘creditor-on-creditor violence’

Broadcasting & Cable · Jan 10, 2024

Charlie Ergen Buys a Little Time as Dish-EchoStar Merger Closes

As he looks to keep building out his 5G wireless network, Ergen now has access to EchoStar’s $1.9 billion in cash and estimated $265 million in free cash. But it’s all just a 'drop in the bucket,’ analysts say

Multichannel News · Jan 2, 2024

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Was Florida State's Perfect 13-0 Record Sacked By the SEC's $3 Billion TV Deal With Disney/ESPN?

In our latest 'Next Text,' we ponder college football's playoff travesty, retrans' ratcheted-up rhetoric, Disney's Culture War floggings and a bunch of other stuff that's unfair and just not right

Broadcasting & Cable · Dec 4, 2023

Dish Network Loses 284,000 Subs as Second-Quarter Profits Drop

Satellite company to recombine with Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar

Multichannel News · Aug 8, 2023

As Dish Reportedly Grows 'Desperate' to Raise Cash to Build Its 5G Network, the 'B Word' Increasingly Gets Thrown Around

New report suggests Charlie Ergen has little furniture left to burn to stave off the coming winter

Broadcasting & Cable · Jun 9, 2023

99 Problems: Dish Faces Investor Lawsuits Over Ransomware Attack, Downgrades From Equity Analysts

As if its painful transition to 5G wireless provider wasn't enough, Dish's cyberattack seems to have come at a really bad time

Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 30, 2023