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The Wealthiest Person in Each StateDalio: $10 billion Founder of Bridgewater Associates LP 14. George Kaiser: $10 billion Chairman of BOK Financial 15. Charles Ergen : $8.3 billion Founder and chairman of DISH Network 16. Hansjorg Wyss: $7.7 billion Chairman of Swiss medical device
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Michael Wolff: Moonves quixotically tackles Hopper DVR
Moonves is matched against Dish chief Charlie Ergen , the ultimate corporate outsider and Les Moonves is not going to let Charlie Ergen free them! In a sense, Moonves himself their shows ("retrans fees"). Charlie Ergen wants to pay less. As a negotiating
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Michael Wolff: Moonves bridges TVâ??s past, future
Moonves is matched against Dish chief Charlie Ergen , the ultimate corporate outsider and Les Moonves is not going to let Charlie Ergen free them! In a sense, Moonves himself their shows ("retrans fees"). Charlie Ergen wants to pay less. As a negotiating
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Viewers likely to see more pay-TV, programmer fights
government regulations including the 1992 Cable Act were not meant for the post-Netflix era, argued Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen last month before a U.S. House subcommittee. "Broadcasters play the pay-TV providers against one another," he said
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Dish Network loses record number of subscribers
to $9.93, Monday as analysts saw little hope of a quick turnaround for the once highflying company controlled by Charlie Ergen . Dish ended the year with 13.7 million subscribers, down 102,000 in the fourth quarter. Five Wall Street analysts
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Lack of Murdoch Testimony Could Cost NewsCorp a Fortunesatellite systems, 25 newspapers, book publishers and the Fox television, cable and film operations. The CEO of EchoStar, Charles Ergen , has already testified at the trial, alleging the Murdoch company took the action out of revenge for failed merger talks
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Sirius could file for bankruptcy as early as Tuesday
for new debt due in 2011, it still has about $175 million coming due Sunday. Sirius is fighting attempts for control by Charlie Ergen , chief executive of Dish Network dish and sister company EchoStar sats . Ergen bought much of a $300 million batch of discounted
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Rupert Murdoch Firm Goes on Trial for Alleged Tech Sabotageinfringement, misconduct and unfair competition. The list of witnesses in the case includes EchoStar's founder and CEO Charlie Ergen ; several hackers and pirates; and Reuven Hazak, an Israeli who heads security for NDS and is a former deputy head of Shabak
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Murdoch Victory, Jury Rejects Spying ChargesNewsCorp lawyers said such "reverse engineering" is standard in the cut-throat satellite television business. EchoStar CEO Charles Ergen testified the NewsCorp hacking took place after merger talks between him and Murdoch broke off over the issue of which company
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Dish Network has a lot of problems on its plate
analyst Todd Mitchell. The anemic economy contributed to lower-than-expected subscription growth at the end of 2007, CEO Charlie Ergen told analysts in late February. Another factor, though, was a delay in offering additional HDTV channels — especially
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EchoStar to grow, then divide
EchoStar dish CEO Charlie Ergen presented plans Tuesday to keep the satellite TV provider growing as competition from DirecTV and cable operators intensifies
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Internet Challenging Cable TV
Cable and satellite TV have cultivated a bitter rivalry for years, and watching Rupert Murdoch and EchoStar chief Charlie Ergen spar is certainly entertaining. But in their zeal to trounce one another, they may be overlooking a more stealthy
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Satellite TV Deal: Fewer Viewer Choices?
does not currently have a U.S. satellite television presence. "It's a powerful combination," said EchoStar chairman Charles Ergen during a televised press conference today, announcing the merger. It s the Rural Thing But the new EchoStar could be a
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Breaking Down Today's Crucial Contestsdragged on for five years with claims and counterclaims. The allegations are being made by another billionaire media mogul Charles Ergen . time Murdoch rival who runs the Echostar TV satellite service. Perkins lawyers argued that grew out of failed merger talks
and counterclaims. The allegations are being made by another billionaire media mogul Charles Ergen . -- time Murdoch rival who runs the Echostar TV satellite service. Perkins lawyers argued that -- grew out of failed merger talks
