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Rumblings are getting louder about a potential merger of leading satellite TV distributors DirecTV and Dish, with stocks in both services’ parent companies gaining ground in Friday trading. Dish shares rose 2.5% to $37.10, their highest level in a year and a half. AT&T shares closed the week at $32.49, up more than 1%…

Dish Network’s stock dropped to a two-month low Monday before recovering to close down 6% after the company announced it would acquire broadcast satellite assets from EchoStar in an all-stock deal valued at $800 million. The transaction, framed as a follow-though of a 2017 deal for EchoStar assets seen as critical to…

Ending a nearly eight-month impasse, Dish Network and Univision Communications have announced a new long-term carriage deal. The companies said restoration of Univision networks and stations on DishLatino and Dish will begin immediately. Dish at the end of 2018 reported 12.3 million total pay-TV subscribers, including…

With competition growing in the internet-delivered pay-TV market, one of its pioneers is offering a sizable price cut for new subscribers during their first three months. The company has rolled out a 40% discount on monthly plans, making the cost $15 a month for basic plans, or $25 a month for higher-tier plans with…

Univision swung to a loss in the fourth quarter, blaming a downturn in revenue in part on a months-long carriage dispute with Dish, but CEO Vince Sadusky expressed guarded optimism about a resolution to the impasse during a conference call with analysts. Univision posted an operating loss of $40.2 million, compared…

UPDATED with closing price. Dish Network shares fell nearly 8% midway after the company released lackluster fourth-quarter results amid ongoing carriage disputes with HBO and Univision. Diluted earnings per share plunged to 64 cents from $2.64 in the same quarter a year ago. Total revenue slid to $3.31 billion from…

Dish Network co-founder and chairman Charlie Ergen says the satellite provider’s carriage dispute with HBO shows no signs of letting up, and he predicts a blackout lasting through the mid-April return of Game of Thrones would increase piracy. The HBO situation “will be interesting because people will find another way…

Describing Dish Network’s negotiating approach as “bizarre,” Univision CEO Vince Sadusky said the Hispanic media giant’s carriage dispute with the major satellite operator is “likely permanent.” While the executive has issued previous warnings in the same vein, his comments during Univision’s third-quarter earnings…

Univision’s ongoing carriage dispute with Dish Network hit the privately held company’s third-quarter results hard, with total revenue falling 17% and operating income off 34%. Revenue came in at $628.2 million for the period ending September 30, compared with $759.4 million in the same quarter a year earlier. Income…

HBO chief Richard Plepler issued a firm response to Charlie Ergen, the CEO of Dish Network who held forth at length during Dish’s third-quarter earnings call about the current impasse with the AT&T-owned premium network. Ergen described the blackout last week of HBO, the first in the network’s 46-year history, as…

Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen, long known for his free-spoken, sharp-elbowed management style, described the company’s carriage dispute with HBO as the result of “purely an anti-competitive play” by the premium network’s new parent, AT&T. Last week’s blackout marked the first time since HBO went on the air in 1972…

Dish Network posted third-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street estimates but also revealed some disconcerting subscriber trends, especially in light of ongoing blackouts with Univision and HBO. Diluted earnings came in at 82 cents per share, well ahead of analysts’ consensus for 67 cents a share and 45% over the…