#Dish’s Sling TV Launches FAST Service Freestream, Offering One-Click Upgrade to Premium Pay TV 

#Dish’s Sling TV Launches FAST Service Freestream, Offering One-Click Upgrade to Premium Pay TV 

Dish’s Sling TV Launches FAST Service Freestream, Offering One-Click Upgrade to Premium Pay TV  Dish’s Sling TV on Thursday launched a new free advertising-supported streaming television (FAST) service dubbed Sling Freestream.  Kicking off with 210+ free channels and 41,000+ on-demand titles, it will also allow consumers to upgrade to premium pay TV with one click, with Dish touting that it…

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#Dish beats Q2 earnings estimates but loses 67K pay-TV subscribers

#Dish beats Q2 earnings estimates but loses 67K pay-TV subscribers

“#Dish beats Q2 earnings estimates but loses 67K pay-TV subscribers” Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network beat Wall Street’s second-quarter estimates even as it continued to bleed tens of thousands of pay-TV subscribers. The satellite TV company was boosted by its growing wireless business even as customers continued cord-cutting, in which they cancel traditional cable or satellite…

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#Dish Network profits jump despite 133,000 lost subscribers

#Dish Network profits jump despite 133,000 lost subscribers

“#Dish Network profits jump despite 133,000 lost subscribers” Dish Network, the satellite-TV company led by chairman Charlie Ergen, posted an 88 percent jump in quarterly profit even as it lost subscribers. Dish said Monday it continued to hemorrhage pay-TV subscribers during the fourth quarter at a slightly slower clip, shedding 133,00 subscribers compared with a…

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#DOJ shoots down DirecTV and Dish merger again

#DOJ shoots down DirecTV and Dish merger again

“#DOJ shoots down DirecTV and Dish merger again” Charlie Ergen’s dream of merging his Dish Network with AT&T’s DirecTV has been squashed by the Department of Justice — yet again, The Post has learned. Regulators with the DOJ’s antitrust division recently informed executives of AT&T that a marriage between DirecTV and Dish would likely have…

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