Dish Network will be fine in the long-run...they just needs to pull their heads out of their arses.
Dish dying or merging?
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Charlie's democratic leaning has been evident in the past, but no politics can over-rule a business decision when profit is the king, and a merger will not pass the anti-monopoly test even if Charlie can be invited to stay over in the White House every week
The only exception is if without a merger both will be out of the business (such as the Sirius and XM merger), which there is no indication of such happening at all.
I am wondering how come DirecTV is always bought by different company's. First News Corp and now Liberty Media but Dish Network is never bought out. It has always been its own company.
New Orleans. I doubt if I could get the Cox Sports TV channel either with the Eastern Sats.
So, should there just be McDonalds and all the other fast food burger joints go away?
That was paid political infomercials. It was not free.And Direct ran the same "Obama Channel" as well. Hell of a try there tho sparky!
Because Charlie alone has the controlling stake in Dish Network and he did not put it up for sale.
The merger that I think would be really interesting would be Dish Network and Sprint / Nextel. That would form a new company that compete with AT&T and Verizon, as well as Comcast and Cox. I think that one of the big disadvantages for the two satellite television companies these days is that they are competing against bundled packages. Same thing for Sprint, they are only a mobile phone company.
Dish Network and Sprint merged together would have a more solid product offering and they may possibly be better able to offer a High Speed Internet product as well. I don't know enough about Sprint's network to say that for sure, but it may get them closer than they are now.
Dish Network and Sprint merged together would have a more solid product offering and they may possibly be better able to offer a High Speed Internet product as well. I don't know enough about Sprint's network to say that for sure, but it may get them closer than they are now.
They would never get a merger past the SEC. XM sirius is a different matter because both were bleeding money and now the one i still bleeding money. Their competition was each other and all of the other ways that you could get music in your car. I just got a blackberry and loaded my itunes playlist and turned XM off after being a subscriber for over four and a half years.
as long as they combine choices, that would be great!! McDonalds fries and The King's burgers abd Wendy's Frosty's all in one place!! Heaven!!
How is that an advantage? Using twice as much equipment on both sides of the US as opposed to half as much in the middle of the US is an advantage?
They are? Direct just had one of their best quarters in the last few years and FiOS is booming. The only FEW that are hurting are SOME cable companies in some markets and MAYBE Dish (I would not say they are hurting, they just slowed down).
Let's not forget before the anti trust law ATT had the most "efficient use of resources" in the phone business, because it was the only company doing it, and let's also not forget how the anti trust law came about and broke ATT into several companies.
There is a trade off between "letting the company have the most efficient use of resources" v. the negative impact to the consumers by a monopoly.
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