Dish shenanigans: EchoStar's Ergen up to his old tricks.(reports surface that EchoStar Communications Corp. chairman Charlie Ergen is discussing selling his company)
Multichannel News, January, 2003 by Farrell, Mike
Just what is Charlie up to? That's the question on a lot of minds after a report surfaced last week that EchoStar Communications Corp. chairman Charlie Ergen -- one of the few remaining mavericks in the direct-broadcast satellite industry -- was said to be in preliminary talks with News Corp. and Liberty Media Corp. to sell the company he founded in 1980.
Last Tuesday, a report in The Wall Street Journal said that Ergen, frustrated after the failure of his proposed merger with Hughes Electronics Corp.'s DirecTV Inc. last year, was looking to sell out. The Journal article stressed that talks were in their preliminary stages and that no discussions about price or ownership structure were made.
Several analysts who cover the DBS and cable sector...
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