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Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen Still Sees DirecTV Satellite Merger As “Inevitable”

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Dade Hayes Finance EditorDish Network chairman Charlie Ergen still believes a merger of his company’s satellite operations with those of AT&T-owned DirecTV is “inevitable.” The timing, though, is unclear in his view.“Is it one month from now or two years from now?

I don’t know,” he said during a conference call with analysts and reporters to discuss Dish’s second-quarter results.Ergen has floated the merger scenario numerous times in recent years, noting that antitrust regulators have indicated they were not ready to bless such a combination.

But the satellite business is also shrinking dramatically. Dish reported 11.27 pay-TV subscribers as of June 30, which is off 6% from 2019, with about 9 million satellite subscribers.

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