Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen Says AT&T’s Moves To Unload DirecTV Make Eventual Combo With Dish All The More “Inevitable”
Dade Hayes Finance EditorAT&T’s efforts to unload DirecTV make the latter’s eventual combination with Dish Network all the more “inevitable,” Dish chairman Charlie Ergen said Friday.The pay-TV rabble-rouser has used that word before to describe the longtime satellite rivals, and he stipulated during a call with Wall Street analysts after Dish’s third-quarter results that he had no new inside information to impart.