ERGEN EAGER
TO PLAY WIRELESS CARD
Contending
Dish Network is now a “one-trick pony” that can only
offer video services, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen recently
argued the $3 billion-plus gamble the company has placed on getting
into the wireless business by acquiring DBSD and Terrestar is
worth the risk.
DEALS DOUSE
RETRANS FLARE UPS FOR DIRECTV
After
days of often heated rhetoric from the various players that included
Internet postings, press releases, “stories” on local
newscasts, full-page newspaper ads, and regulatory complaints,
DirecTv managed to end a pair of retransmission consent agreements
that had resulted in satellite subscribers in numerous markets
seeing one or more local stations taken out of their programming
line-ups.
DIRECTV 'REVOLUTION'
ROLLS THROUGH ATLANTA
Even
as the company continues to invest in new Internet-related technology
initiatives, DirecTv told retailers at the sixth annual “Dealer
Revolution” in Atlanta earlier this month the company’s
relationship with those independent dealers and the core television
products its offers will continue to be among the DBS service's
primary focuses in the year ahead.
SATELLITE
TV HOMES IN ON ZONING FIGHTS AT FCC
Still
pressing against satellite TV dish installation restrictions
the Philadelphia City Council passed last year, DirecTv, Dish
Network, and the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association
have asked the Federal Communications Commission to step in to
strike down a new zoning ordinance in Chicago.
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