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You'll soon have even more free movies and shows to stream as DirecTV announces a new service

DirecTV is moving from live TV to free streaming with the launch of its new FAST service.

TechRadar

What DirecTV, Dish Network merger means for current customers

DirecTV and Dish Network are merging in a $10 billion deal that would create the nation’s largest pay-TV provider.

The Street

Will DirecTV and Dish Finally Merge? 'It's Hard to Imagine That Regulators Would Block This Deal,' Analyst Says

But a lack of synergy between the two satellite TV units could render this deal, anticipated for decades, inconsequential, says one analyst

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Death Spiral? EchoStar’s Already-Hammered Stock Has Dropped 14% Since Friday’s Earnings Report

Analyst predicts satellite company will file for bankruptcy by the end of the year

Broadcasting & Cable

Hot Blackout Action! Dish Boots BendBroadband Affiliates KOHD and KBNZ in Retrans Kerfuffle

It’s only the latest skirmish between the satellite TV company and the Central Oregon-based CBS and NBC stations

Broadcasting & Cable

Dish to Bundle Netflix Free for Existing Customers Who Re-Up for 2 Years

With the Dish linear satellite TV business down to 6.26 million subscribers, pay TV company is offering Netflix's $6.99 Standard with ads plan

Broadcasting & Cable

Dish Network‘s Pay TV Business: ’A Melting Ice Cube … on a Hot Day’

With Sling TV subscribers dropping below 2 million for the first time in seven years, Dish’s pay TV engine can no longer keep the larger EchoStar enterprise afloat, analyst says

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EchoStar Loses 348,000 Pay TV Subs in 1st Quarter

Company reports loss of $107.4 million as revenue falls 9%

Multichannel News

What Will a Paramount Controlled By Republican Mega-Donor Larry Ellison Look Like?

Plus, in our latest ‘Next Text,’ we throw more shade at Coach Prime, celebrate REM’s ‘Reckoning’ and John Stewart (the singer-songwriter), and we try to escape Roku, Amazon and Telly by getting off the TV grid

Broadcasting & Cable

Prime Dime: Dish Network Hires Deion Sanders to Hawk Boost Mobile

Coming off six straight losses and ranked 84th nationally in recruiting, the former two-sport star has managed to convince America he’s a great football coach. You don’t think he can sell mobile phones?

Broadcasting & Cable

No Local Stations? Dish Says It’s Been Offering Opt-Outs for 7 Years

Offer ‘empowers subscribers with the ability to customize their viewing experience,’ satellite-TV company says

Multichannel News

Ergen’s EchoStar Concedes ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Its Future

With one analyst calling its debt situation ‘dire,’ the Dish Network parent company admits to the SEC there is doubt about its ability to continue as a ‘going concern’

Broadcasting & Cable

EchoStar Posts $2.03 Billion Loss as Dish Network Loses 314,000 Pay TV Subs

Revenue for newly combined company falls 8%

Multichannel News

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

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Mission Broadcasting, Dish End Year-Long Blackout

Agreement covers 27 stations in 25 markets

TV Tech

Mission Stations Return to Dish After Year-Long Blackout

Multiyear distribution agreement that will return 27 Mission television stations in 25 markets to the satellite pay TV service

Broadcasting & Cable

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’

TV Tech

EchoStar Completes Dish Merger

The completion reunites Charlie Ergen‘s empire and will strengthen the company’s 5G efforts

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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

The Independent UK

The incredible rise and dramatic fall of George Santos

The GOP lawmaker and suspected fraudster’s murky and ever-changing biography makes it difficult to parse truth from fiction, Bevan Hurley reports

The Independent UK

The incredible rise and dramatic fall of George Santos

The GOP lawmaker and suspected fraudster’s murky and ever-changing biography makes it difficult to parse truth from fiction, Bevan Hurley reports

TV Tech

Fox Weather Expands Distribution to Dish and Sling Freestream

The free-ad supported service went live on Nov. 29 on both platforms

Broadcasting & Cable

Dish Network, Sling Freestream Add Fox Weather To Lineup

Network joins Dish’s America’s top 120, 200 and 250 packages

The Independent UK

The incredible rise and dramatic fall of George Santos

The GOP lawmaker and suspected fraudster’s murky and ever-changing biography makes it difficult to parse truth from fiction, Bevan Hurley reports

The Street

Iconic TV brand faces 'overwhelmingly probable' bankruptcy filing

The company has massive bills coming due and that could force it into a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.

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