Tag: dish
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A DISH & DIRECTV Merger May Be Coming Soon Thanks to Cord Cutting
For years there have been talks of a possible DIRECTV and DISH merger. Now the time may be finally right and 2023 may be the year the two satellite TV services merge. The growth of cord cutting and AT&T spinning DIRECTV off into its own company creates conditions that could make the merger a reality. […]
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DISH is offering $25 a Month for Life Unlimited Talk, Text, & Data Plan from Boost Mobile
Earlier on in 2022, DISH announced plans to offer a $ 25-a-month wireless phone plan with unlimited talk, text, and data from its Boost Mobile service. Now DISH has started to roll out the plan called Boost Infinite. With Boost Infinite, you will get unlimited talk, text, and 30GB of data before your speeds slow […]
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DISH Lost 268K Pay TV Subscribers on Satellite & Sling TV in The 4th Quarter of 2022
The tough time for TV companies is continuing as DISH today announced that it has lost 268,000 subscribers in the 4th quarter of 2022. This works out to be about 2,913 subscribers canceling their accounts every day. As inflation grows, more Americans have been turning to cord cutting to help cut their TV costs. Increasingly […]
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DISH Plans to Raise $1.5 Billion in Senior Secured Notes
Today DISH Network announced plans to raise $1,5000,000,000 in Senior Secured Notes. According to DISH, they plan to use the proceeds of the offering for “general corporate purposes, including the buildout of wireless infrastructure.” With these being Senior Secured Notes, it means that these bonds must be repaid before most other debts in the event […]
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DISH Sues to Stop SpaceX’s Second-Gen Starlink Satellites
SpaceX has set an aggressive timeline when it comes to the global expansion of its Starlink satellite internet service and the rollout of its second-gen Starlink satellites. This new second-gen satellite will add new abilities, better speeds, greater coverage, and even work with T-Mobile phones to remove any dead spots, at least for texting. Now […]
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DISH Sued This Piracy Service in 2018 But Says Its Operators Are Still Running IPTV Services
In November 2018, DISH was awarded over $90,000,000 in damages from SetTV, a popular streaming app that offered hundreds of channels for just $20 per month, when it was determined that SetTV was illegally obtaining DISH’s broadcast and redistributing them to customers online. Now, DISH claims the operators of the service are back at it […]
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Dish and Sling Reach Agreement for Sinclair Locals and Tennis Channel, Leaving RSNs Out
Dish and Sinclair announced today that they have reached a multi-year carriage agreement to keep Sinclair’s 144 local stations and the Tennis Channel on Dish TV and Sling TV. The deal did not include Sinclair-owned Bally Sports Networks. The regional sports networks were dropped by Dish Network in Summer 2019. At that time, Dish sent […]
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AT&T SportsNet and Root Sports Have Been Removed from Dish TV
Regional sports networks AT&T SportsNet and Root Sports were removed from Dish TV today. Dish customers will no longer have access to AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh, and Root Sports Northwest. “The current RSN model is fundamentally broken,” said Brian Neylon, group president, DISH TV. “This model requires nearly all customers to pay […]
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DISH and Sinclair Reach Short-Term Agreement to Keep 112 Channels on Air
DISH Network and Sinclair have come to a short term agreement, saving the 112 Sinclair-owned channels that were on track to go dark last night, impacting 3.5 million customers. Earlier this month, Sinclair released a statement, saying that DISH Network will drop 112 Sinclair-owned channels if the two companies were unable to agree to carriage terms […]
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Weekend Wrap-Up: DISH Faces Off Against Sinclair, More Roku Originals Arrive, and More
This week, we learned of another carriage dispute, this time involving DISH, Sinclair, and more than 100 channels. Elsewhere, several streaming services announced their latest subscriber numbers, with some touting increases and others noting recent losses. Meanwhile, WarnerMedia continues to make deals that signal its intent to return to exclusive windows for movie theaters. Here’s […]