DISH managed to cobble together a skinny bundle of popular cable channels for online streaming with Sling TV, but it still doesn’t offer local network TV. Now the company could have a solution that brings some of the major networks onto its platform. Zatz Not Funny reports that the company is prepping an AirTV box that will merge Sling TV’s service with free local television, citing a...
Earlier this year Sling TV CEO Roger Lynch took the stage at CES 2015 to unveil Sling TV, an exciting new streaming service from DISH. At the time we were blown away, and several months later the company continues to impress us. We had a chance to talk to Lynch ahead of the Northside Festival in Brooklyn next month, where he’s giving a talk focused on the rapidly changing state of TV...
SoftBank is standing by its $20 billion offer to acquire 70 percent of Sprint and believes that the bid is better than Dish Network's $25.5 billion offer. Speaking during a press conference recently, SoftBank president Masayoshi Son said Dish isn't as prepared to invest in Sprint and that the company's bid is incomplete. "Our price offer is better than theirs," Son said, according to ...
Sprint announced Monday morning that SoftBank has given it permission to consider a competing offer from Dish Network. The carrier announced in October that SoftBank made a $20 billion offer in return for a 70 percent holding in the company. Dish followed up with a $25.5 billion offer in April, and then asked the FCC to halt its examination of the Sprint/SoftBank deal. "The waiver will...
Satellite television provider DISH Network has won the auction to purchase the bankrupt Blockbuster Video chain. The winning bid was for $320 million with $228 million of it being in cash. As we reported on Monday, Blockbuster Video was up for sale due to its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing dating back to last Sept. While some bidders, including the infamous Carl Icahn, were looking to...