AllThingsD - Charlie Ergen brings TV into 14 million houses, which means he’s got a very nice business that has made him a billionaire.
But while lots of pay-TV operators are happy to keep things the way they are, Ergen keeps trying to blow them up: The Dish Network co-founder and chairman is constantly fighting with the rest of the TV Industrial Complex, in disputes that often end up in court.
In 2015 pay-TV companies lost a total of 480,855 subscribers in just three months according to the Leichtman Research Group. Verizon FiOS was the only pay-TV company to gain subscribers of the top nine pay-TV providers at just...
The first half of 2015 brought us the launch of a whole bunch of new over-the-top streaming TV services, including HBO Now and Dish’s Sling. Now, at the midpoint of the year, all of those earnings reports and investor calls are rolling in and we can start to find out just how popular those services are. Or we could… if executives would talk. Instead, they hem and haw and hedge and make only two things clear. One: cord-cutters are real. And two: when it comes to streaming, Netflix is still the biggest elephant in the room.
Great to hear that. They deserve it. Once they invested and opened the market selfish content providers tried to crush them. Glad they overcame the trash.
Dish Network was found liable for making more than 57 million calls in violation of federal telemarketing rules, including millions to consumers who were registered on the Do Not Call list, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.
The potential penalty could be staggering, and could include a possible windfall to consumers who often are the beneficiaries in telemarketing cases.
