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 ...
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 ...
The Dish on Spectrum and Politics
The FCC gives Charlie Ergen some crucial regulatory forbearance.
EchoStar's Dish sale marks disappointing end to Charlie Ergen's 'Seinfeld' strategy
TV provider Dish Network to DirecTV Monday for $1 in equity and $9.75 billion in associated debt. The transaction, if ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 in selling DISH, chairman Charlie Ergen is very much giving up his ‘baby’.