AT&T may bid for EchoStar by year's end: Barron's

[iceondsom]

AT&T can bid on E* until they are blue in the face but it won't matter until Charlie is ready to sell. He holds more than 50% of the shares.

 

[Peter Parker]

True but the specualation is that e is ready to sell for the right offer.

 

[iceondsom]

That is the speculation. On Wednesday Charlie said that he wasn't but you never know....

 

[qsoundrich]

And yet another corporate HQ would be leaving Colorado. Hope they don't start axing jobs out here if this goes through, but that's usually how it goes when a company gets acquired.

 

[mboron]

So if ATT or anyone for that matter buys E*, does that mean that the new company will be able to offer distant locals again? You guys are always on here moaning about 60 or 70 HD channels etc, and I am stuck up here in Alaska with 10 HD channels on a spotbeam regardless of how many are available nationwide, and more distressing, I am stuck up here with the hideous AAD distant networks! The resolution on those channels is not worth disscussion.