EchoStar Loses 104K Pay TV Subs in Q2 Sub losses were better than the 294K lost in Q1, 2024 but revenue was down, losses widened and wireless subs declined TV Tech · Aug 9, 2024
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 · Jul 30, 2024
Dish Media Adds Pause Ads to Sling TV When viewers pause the TV program, they will see interactive, customized ads on the Sling TV streaming platform TV Tech · Jul 9, 2024
Sling Freestream Unveils Six New Channels From TheSoul Publishing The FAST channels are primarily YouTube-based and geared towards younger audiences Broadcasting & Cable · Jul 3, 2024
TV Tech's Weekly Product Wrap-Up Our coverage of new products, services and deployments from June 24 to June 28 TV Tech · Jun 28, 2024
EchoStar Hires Tom Fochetta as SVP to Lead Dish Media Advertising Sales Division Fochetta brings over 20 years of leadership experience in the advertising and media industry to the new role TV Tech · Jun 27, 2024
Dish Launches New TV Bundle with Free Netflix The bundle includes free access to Netflix Standard with Ads for two years TV Tech · Jun 27, 2024
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 · Jun 26, 2024
Tom Fochetta Named Head of Dish Media Ad Sales Unit Exec had previously been with Samsung Ads Multichannel News · Jun 25, 2024
Dish and Hughesnet Form Their First Ever Pay TV/Broadband Bundle Seems like the two Charlie Ergen-led companies would have done this already before, right? Broadcasting & Cable · May 20, 2024
Dish TV and Hughes Debut New Bundled Services The new bundles are designed to improve connectivity and entertainment options in rural America TV Tech · May 17, 2024
You can buy a year's worth of cell phone service in advance — but should you? A number of carriers now let you pay for a year of cell phone service upfront in exchange for a pricing break. Here are the pros and cons of that approach, plus the annual cell phone plans that caught our eye. Tom’s Guide · May 12, 2024
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 Multichannel News · May 9, 2024
AWS enters 5G cloud market with Telefonica deal Telefonica is set to move its core network for over a million 5G customers to AWS public cloud as the industry watches on. TechRadar · May 8, 2024
Broadcasting & Cable · May 1, 2024 Circle City’s Appeal Shot Down in Racial Discrimination Suit Against DirecTV and Dish A federal appeals court rules that the satellite TV companies didn’t discriminate against a Black-owned broadcaster by refusing to pay retransmission fees for its channels
Broadcasting & Cable · Apr 12, 2024 DirecTV and Dish Back Fubo in Its Spulu Antitrust Suit DirecTV tells the New York federal court overseeing the complaint that it has ‘grave concerns’ about the Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. joint venture
Broadcasting & Cable · Apr 10, 2024 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?
TV Tech · Apr 8, 2024 Dish Media Launches PerformXP PerformXP allows direct response and performance advertisers to incorporate connected set-top box (STB) inventory into connected TV (CTV) buys
TV Tech · Mar 19, 2024 Dish Highlights Subs’ Ability to Drop Local TV Stations Following the DirecTV decision to allow subs to drop local broadcasters, Dish said it has offered similar packages for seven years
Multichannel News · Mar 19, 2024 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
TV Tech · Mar 12, 2024 Fox Nation Expands Distribution to Dish Network and Sling TV Users can access Fox Nation on Dish and Sling for $5.99 a month
TV Tech · Mar 6, 2024 Dish Media Expands Addressable TV Advertising Footprint with Philo The partnership adds more than 1M new addressable households, accessible exclusively via Dish Media
Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 6, 2024 Philo Makes Its Addressable-Ad Supply Available Exclusively Through Dish Media Deal adds 1 million households to Dish’s addressable footprint
Broadcasting & Cable · Mar 4, 2024 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’
Multichannel News · Feb 23, 2024 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