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Nexstar Media Group on Friday warned of a potential blackout of its programming on Dish Network next week as the two sides negotiate a new distribution deal for the media group’s 164 TV channels. Nexstar, the No. 1 owner of local TV stations in the U.S., is currently available in 120 Dish markets in 42 states. The two…

Slingbox, the ahead-of-its-time piece of hardware that enabled remote viewing of pay-TV signals, is headed for the scrapheap. The technology maker, acquired by Echostar and now owned by Dish Network, said Monday it will sunset all devices, making them “inoperable” by November 2022. Trade journals as far back as 2017…

AT&T’s efforts to unload DirecTV make the latter’s eventual combination with Dish Network all the more “inevitable,” Dish chairman Charlie Ergen said Friday. The pay-TV rabble-rouser has used that word before to describe the longtime satellite rivals, and he stipulated during a call with Wall Street analysts after Dish…

Dish Network’s Sling TV gained 203,000 subscribers in the third quarter, offsetting a decline in the company’s traditional satellite TV business. Revenue and earnings topped Wall Street expectations, reaching $4.53 billion and 86 cents a share, respectively. The company closed its acquisition of Boost Mobile in the…

NFL Media and Dish Network Corporation have reached a new carriage agreement for NFL Network and NFL RedZone. Distribution of both networks has been restored on Dish TV and Sling TV (as part of the Sling TV Blue package) today, the first Sunday of the 2020 NFL regular season. The last agreement ended in June. NFL…

Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen still believes a merger of his company’s satellite operations with those of AT&T-owned DirecTV is “inevitable.” The timing, though, is unclear in his view. “Is it one month from now or two years from now? I don't know,” he said during a conference call with analysts and reporters to…

Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen, a vocal critic of the programmers he routinely jousts with in contract talks, amped up his critique of the traditional TV business during a conference call with analysts Thursday. “The product itself, from a consumer point of view, isn’t good enough,” Ergen declared. While viewing…

Dish, the satellite TV provider and parent of Sling TV, is laying off staff to realign its workforce, the latest company across media to downsize amidst fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. "Due to the current economic climate, combined with changing needs of our customers and how we best serve them, Dish has made…

Updated with comments from conference call: Dish Network chief Charlie Ergen said he thinks it's inevitable that Dish will ultimate merge with rival DirecTV as pay TV is eroded by cord cutting and other pressures. It seems likely "that those two should get together because the growth in TV is not coming from linear,"…

With new channels joining the programming lineup and new features being rolled out, Dish Network’s Sling TV is raising prices. The internet-delivered bundle’s “Orange” and “Blue” tiers now cost $30 a month, up from $25. It now costs $45 to subscribe to a combination of Orange and Blue, up from $40. Sling, which got…

UPDATED with WarnerMedia statement: Even though Dish Network isn’t in the broadband or wireless business (yet), the company’s outspoken chairman, Charlie Ergen, sees the influx of new streaming services benefiting Dish and other pay-TV providers. Ergen addressed the topic during a conference call with Wall Street…

Dish Network, whose core satellite TV business has been steadily declining of late, reported better-than-expected financial results in the third quarter, including a rare gain in pay-TV subscribers. Earnings per share totaled 66 cents on a diluted basis, ahead of the forecast of 61 cents by Wall Street analysts…