Charlie Ergen

DISH Founder Charles Ergen is launching Conx Corp (NASDAQ: CONX), a SPAC targeting the technology, media and telecom sector. About Conx: The SPAC is targeting a company that has attractive growth, recurring revenue and earnings growth or the potential for both, strong free cash flow or the...

The Wall Street Journal revived news Thursday of a planned wireless partnership between DISH Network Corp (NASDAQ: DISH) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), prompting a pop in Dish stock to an intraday high of about 1.5 percent. Investor reactions abated since Benzinga’s early June reports...

Should General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) split its stock? According to David Einhorn-founded hedge fund Greenlight Capital in a recent presentation, there's a case for two classes of GM shares to unlock value. The Problem And The Solution The firm's contention was GM stock trades at a...

Mario Gabelli, chairman of Gamco Investors, Inc. and Leon Cooperman, founder of Omega Advisors, are perhaps two of the best value investors of our time, and if both of them are betting big on a stock, its highly probable that it will outperform in the long run. Gabelli and Cooperman both were on...

Yet another major telecom merger deal could be in the works, according to the Wall Street Journal. Dish Network Corp (NASDAQ: DISH) and T-Mobile US Inc (NYSE: TMUS) have reportedly been in talks to join forces. The deal would combine the second-largest U.S. TV operator and the fourth-largest...

As if Federal regulators didn’t have enough to mull over with Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), now comes word that AT&T (NYSE: T) is close to “sealing the deal” on a takeover of DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV). The AT&T/DirecTV merger would...

U.S. stocks were mixed as the Dow finished in positive territory and the S&P 500 index turned negative after rising to within two points of its record close. The Nasdaq also turned negative towards the end of the day, declining for the third straight day. Earnings continue to come in mixed...

According to the Los Angeles Times, speculation about a merger between satellite broadcast companies Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) and DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) pops up about once every six months or so. Based on these rumors, the Times said, Dish and DirecTV stocks get a boost...then time passes,...

Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) CEO Charlie Ergen’s ship is about to come in. Actually, his H Block spectrum is about to come in, according to the New York Post. But what's he going to do with it?  Post sources indicated that the $1.56 billion acquisition would be announced this week. When...

First, there were rumors that Sprint (NYSE: S) was flirting with the notion of acquiring T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS). Despite a pretty good case for a possible merger made by The Wall Street Journal, there was and is a catch: Should such a merger be approved, the market would end up dominated by...

If all goes as expected, Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) will be picking up a chunk of H-Block wireless spectrum in January. Dish CEO Charlie Ergen will have little in the way of competition based on the list of 34 bidders released by the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday....

It looks like the dispute between Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) and Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) over programming issues may be resolved without the much-feared blackout of some very popular cable channels for Dish subscribers. At issue is the satellite-television provider's carriage of some much-...

After a wave of consolidation in the U.S. cellular market, one major acquisition target remains – T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS). According to AllThingsD, although the gains made by the company in its customer base in the second quarter were significant, the company remains on takeover radar as far...