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Plunged in Debt

DirecTV-Dish Merger In Jeopardy: Here's The Issue

Dish bondholders rejected DirecTV's revised offer on Monday which lowered the minimum loss on $8.9 billion of bonds

International Business Times

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?

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

Satellite company to recombine with Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar

Multichannel News

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

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

From satellite television to a new 5G cellular network: DISH engineers a massive transformation

DISH lit up a new 5G cellular network in more than 120 cities on June 14, meeting an early target federal regulators had set for the construction of the nation’s fourth wireless network.

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