Tag: Dish
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DISH & Sling TV Drop Blaze TV As The Network Starts to Shutdown its Cable TV Network
Back in November news broke that Glenn Beck’s Blaze TV would be shutting down its live TV network at the end of 2019. Instead, Blaze TV will focus on its video-on-demand subscription streaming service. Now Sling TV and DISH have dropped the network from their lineup as its contract was not renewed. This all comes…
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AT&T & DISH Are Being Sued by BBiTV for Patent Infringement
This week, Broadband iTV, Inc. (BBiTV) announced that they have filed a lawsuit against AT&T’s DIRECTV and U-Verse TV. BBiTV has also filed a lawsuit against DISH. BBiT says the video-on-demand services of these companies infringe on their patents. According to BBiTV, they developed and own a portfolio of more than 60 issued U.S. patents…
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AT&T Warns That DIRECTV Could Lose Local Channels After STELA Expires
Right now, the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA) is set to expire in just over a week. STELA gives satellite services like DISH and AT&T access to local channels among other things. Now AT&T has come out and publicly warned that if this rule expires DIRECTV would lose access to local channels. The…
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Dish Plans to Launch a Wireless Service 30 Days After Closing Sprint T-Mobile Merger With 5G Coming in 2020
As the T-Mobile and Sprint merger case continues in court this week, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen testified in support of the merger. Ergen shared that he has letters from three banks, offering $10 billion in funding for Dish to launch a new wireless network. The letters show that the banks are “highly confident” that…
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DISH Confirms its Upcoming Price Hike & New Regional Sports Surcharge
Over the weekend it was learned that DISH was raising TV prices by $5 a month on most plans and adding a regional sports fee in markets that still have a regional sports network. Now DISH has confirmed the price hike and new regional sports surcharge. Here is the statement Dish sent Cord Cutters News…
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Amazon Prime Video is Coming to The DISH Hopper 3
Today Amazon continued to roll its Amazon Prime Video app to as many devices as it can by adding support for DISH’s Hopper 3 DVR with 4K support. This is not a new move Amazon Prime Video was recently added to Comcast’s X1 system as cable TV companies try to fight off cord cutting by…
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DISH is Raising the Price of TV & Adding a Regional Sports Fee
Do you have DISH for your TV service? You may want to get ready to pay even more. DISH is raising their TV prices by $5 a month on most plans and adding a regional sports fee in markets that still have a regional sports network. This price hike was first spotted by the Satelliteguys,…
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DISH Wants to Help You Get Better OTA Antenna Reception With a New Antenna Signal Meter
Ever struggle to get your antenna in the right spot? Now DISH wants to help antenna installers quickly find the best spot to install your antenna with a new over-the-air signal meter that will quickly help them find the right spot to install your antenna. This new $119 device can pair with an Android or…
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DISH Wants IPTV Sellers to Hand Over Subscriber Names
Did you subscribe to one of several popular IPTV services including MFG TV, Beast TV, Nitro TV, Murica Streams, Epic IPTV, Vader Streams, and OK2? DISH is trying to find out who you are. This all comes from an IPTV reseller called Boom Media. The company sold many popular IPTV services here in the United…
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DISH Sues 6 IPTV Services for Copyright Infringement
This week the war on IPTV heated up as police in Spain raided an IPTV operation and here in the states, the FBI raided the owner of the IPTV service Gears Reloaded. Now DISH has sued six more IPTV services running with multiple domain names along with 15 John Doe defendants according to a TorrentFreak…