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UPDATE, 11:00 AM: No Charlie Ergen on today’s earnings call. But Dish Network’s new CEO Joe Clayton did an admirable job of playing cat-and-mouse with analysts who want to know whether the company will use Blockbuster and the wireless spectrum it’s acquiring to create a mega-video streaming service that wouldn’t have…

This is a surprise. Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen announced today that he’s calling it quits. He’ll turn the reins of the No. 2 satellite company over to longtime consumer electronics executive Joseph Clayton next month. Ergen still controls Dish stock and will remain its chairman. Clayton had been chairman of Sirius…

UPDATE-WRITETHRU: How long will it take before Wall Street's cheers for TiVo CEO Tom Rogers turn into catcalls? The Street applauded the former lawyer and NBC cable big shot today following TiVo's agreement to settle a seven-year patent dispute with Dish Network. TiVo shares were up 3%, to $9.86, after the satellite…

Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen — once tossed out of a Las Vegas casino for card counting — was poker-faced again on Monday in discussing his plans for Blockbuster. In a conference call with analysts he wouldn’t say whether he’ll continue to rent DVDs at lots of bricks and mortar stores, or gut that business in favor…

EXCLUSIVE: Media Moguls With Out-Of-Whack Pay Compensation My previous post showed that a lot of media company bigwigs have pay that’s out of whack with the other 4 top executives whom the SEC requires these corps to list. Now I want to show the flip side — CEOs that don’t set off alarm bells with corporate governance…