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Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) CEO Charlie Ergen’s ship is about to come in. Actually, his H Block spectrum is about to come in, according to the New York Post. But what's he going to do with it?  Post sources indicated that the $1.56 billion acquisition would be announced this week. When...

The battle is joined, as they say. DirectTV (NASDAQ: DTV) CEO, Mike White has stated his position regarding the proposed merger between cable companies Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC). That position, as might be expected, is a negative one. On a conference call...

Major indices barely budged Thursday following yesterday's monster rally after the Fed announced it will begin tapering. Overall volume was below average which is typical in the final trading days of the year. Next week will be shortened as investors break for Christmas and a week later for new...

First, there were rumors that Sprint (NYSE: S) was flirting with the notion of acquiring T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS). Despite a pretty good case for a possible merger made by The Wall Street Journal, there was and is a catch: Should such a merger be approved, the market would end up dominated by...

Speculation about so-called over-the-top or streaming cable via the Internet has been around for years. According to some TV-industry experts, it may be about to happen – as early as in 2014. Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA) CEO Philippe Dauman started the ball rolling at the UBS media conference in New...

If all goes as expected, Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) will be picking up a chunk of H-Block wireless spectrum in January. Dish CEO Charlie Ergen will have little in the way of competition based on the list of 34 bidders released by the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday....

The major indices can bank another day in the green. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 both reached new highs during Friday's trading session as markets continued its momentum following U.S. Federal Reserve's new boss Janet Yellen confirmed the central bank's economic stimulus would continue. The...

T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS) needs more spectrum. Spectrum, technically electromagnetic radiation and frequency bands, is the lifeblood of mobile service providers and in order to compete with AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE: VZ), and Sprint (NYSE: S), T-Mobile needs all the spectrum it can get...

Here we go again, right? A content producer and a content provider are trying to hammer out a distribution deal and it’s not going well. Cue the flashbacks to the CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) drama that dragged on much of the summer complete with nasty open letters,...

The votes are in and counted and the winner is - Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S). Bloomberg reported Monday that investors holding or representing 82 percent of eligible Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) shares voted to accept Sprint’s offer. The deal gives Sprint valuable Clearwire spectrum that would...

Lance Armstrong is expected to finally admit that he used a number of banned performance-enhancing substances during his time as a professional cyclist. Armstrong, who created the Livestrong Foundation after being diagnosed with (and subsequently beating) testicular cancer, lost all of his titles...