Dish Network said it is transferring five satellites to EchoStar — a move that paves the way for a merger with DirecTV, according to Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet: http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/di...th-transfer-of-satellites-analyst-1201115338/
Dish Sets Stage for DirecTV Merger with Transfer of Satellites
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Very Interesting Article Thanks for Sharing but I don't see it happening anytime soon but you never know!! imo 
I see little good from a merger. I think DTV would phase out the Hopper. But, this is years away from worrying about.
I think it would be funny to see a merger, but I'd see it as the same as to what Sirus and XM are doing with different packages or basically two companies in one. I'd like to see it and they get rid of all RSP's in the country and all techs and CSR's be under one roof and paid all the same across the country.
Then you could go to to a customers house and when they complain about Dish threatening to go to Direct if you don't fix something you can say ok go ahead!! lol
Then you could go to to a customers house and when they complain about Dish threatening to go to Direct if you don't fix something you can say ok go ahead!! lol
It's gonna happen.. The market has dramatically changed. You want DirecTV merging with Dish.... But no matter how many people say it isnt going to happen, they dont realize that the rural market is didley squat. The real money is in suburbs and city's where there is competition. Rural america cant even keep cband alive. Not much out there, even in places like rural areas that I have been, have at lease been served by a cable connection. (Towns of 250 or less) You have to litterly live out in the boondocks to not have the ability to get cable or DSl. Even then you have to face the fact that rural america is only 15 percent of the population spread over 72 percent of the land mass. That means that 85 percent of america has access to cable and DSL with satellite.
Also it makes total financial sense for it to happen! I think Ergen is done in the Video business and wants to expand solely into the internet / telecom, while keeping Echostars assets. If a new player was to come into town, Ergen could lease space to them and allow a new upstart to take root.
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Not wanting to change the subject, but I really hope that's the not the case if that ever happened, best DVR out there
Not wanting to change the subject, but I really hope that's the not the case if that ever happened, best DVR out there
They would probably have to replace all receivers for either the current Dish subs or the current Directv subs. I think I would rather have a Hopper too because of autohop and built in Sling. The problem is that Directv has about twice as many subscribers. The Hopper and Genie are comparable DVR systems and it would be much cheaper for them to change out all the Dish receivers than the other way around.
The only good thing I see about a merger (and I don't post any usually in regards to these discussions so I may be way off base / uninformed) is that it would be a much bigger dog in terms of fee fights. I think it would give the provider a little more leverage. On the flip side, I like choice and I don't like cable so maybe it would be a bad thing.
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That is so wrong it isn't even funny. We are less than 20 miles from the capital of one of the largest and most populous states in the US and there are vast areas including whole villages and towns that have no DSL or cable. The cable company is among the worst in the country and in a lot of areas don't even offer internet service.
Rural America kept CBand alive just fine until Dish and DirecTV came along. The small dishes installed for free sure beat the hell out of a $2000 C Band system. A Dish/DTV merger would eliminate competition for literally millions of Americans. Period. That's just the facts and hopefully 'rural' America will make enough noise and prevent it if they try it.
Your post reminds me of the arrogance currently being dealt to 'rural' America by the city snobs on many levels, not just telecommunications.
The rural areas (small towns) is where cable started. They were too far from the antenna to get a signal, so they put up an antenna on the highest hill and pumped the stations to the town.
I'd like to see the two team up against the networks and lower the rates. Doubt that would happen but it would be nice to see Dish and DirecTV tell Disney to stick it. It's going to take the power of the two combined to beat the networks and give all the a la carte fans something to smile about.
Dish has about 14 million subscribers and DirecTV has about 20 million.
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I guess I had the numbers wrong. For some reason I was thinking that Directv was closer to 30 million. That's why I said they had twice as many customers. Still, that would be 6 million less customers needing their equipment switched out if they chose to use Directv equipment.
