Charlie Ergen
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Charlie Ergen Makes ‘Inscrutable’ Moves, Shields Parts of Dish Spectrum and Pay TV Biz From Existing Creditors
By Daniel Frankel published
Equity analysts try to make sense of Dish/EchoStar chairman's latest ‘bewilderingly complicated’ strategery, fear ‘creditor-on-creditor violence’

Charlie Ergen Buys a Little Time as Dish-EchoStar Merger Closes
By Daniel Frankel published
As he looks to keep building out his 5G wireless network, Ergen now has access to EchoStar’s $1.9 billion in cash and estimated $265 million in free cash. But it’s all just a 'drop in the bucket,’ analysts say

As Dish Reportedly Grows 'Desperate' to Raise Cash to Build Its 5G Network, the 'B Word' Increasingly Gets Thrown Around
By Daniel Frankel published
New report suggests Charlie Ergen has little furniture left to burn to stave off the coming winter

Dish Says It Will Hit Mandated Deadline To Reach 70% of U.S. With 5G Wireless
By Daniel Frankel published
Stock surges on the news, but equity analysts are growing concerned that Dish’s legacy businesses are decaying too fast to keep up with the burn rate of building a consumer wireless operation

Dish’s Ergen Declares Local Broadcast TV the ‘Newspaper of This Decade’
By Daniel Frankel published
‘The next step for retrans is down, not up,’ the Dish Chairman says while drawing his typically hard line amid a protracted impasse with Cox Media Group

Dish and DirecTV Have a Window to Finally Merge After Next Week’s Midterm Elections, Ergen Says
By Daniel Frankel last updated
Dish Chairman says the 'time is right' for the two dwindling satellite TV companies to combine forces

Sling TV Is Profitable, Charlie Ergen Insists, Despite Sustained Customer Losses
By Daniel Frankel last updated
The Dish Chairman says the vMVPD is 'well-positioned' to ride out a coming shakeout in the OTT market

Ergen to FCC: 12 GHz Is Ripe for 5G
By John Eggerton published
Says Starlink objections are part of misinformation campaign
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