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TUESDAY APRIL 30, 2013

ERGEN MAKES $25.5 BILLION RUN AT SPRINT
After making a $25.5 billion hostile takeover bid for Sprint, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen portrayed a combined Dish Network-Sprint as the best way to create happier consumers who would be able to purchase fixed mobile video, data, and phone services from a single source.

DIRECTV'S WHITE: BETTER DEALER RELATIONS PAYING OFF
Highlighting a theme touched on numerous times by other executives at the opening session of DirecTv’s seventh annual “Dealer Revolution” event, DirecTv Chairman Mike White said independent retailers are “more important than ever” to DirecTv’s efforts to add and keep more profitable customers, roll out new video-related services, and make a bigger sales pushes into multiple-dwelling units, commercial establishments, and other markets.

DBS SERVICES MOBILIZE AGAINST STATE TAXES
DirecTv and Dish Network have turned to their customers in recent weeks to try to help them turned back efforts by lawmakers in Vermont, Texas, and Tennessee to pass legislation that would impose new taxes on satellite TV service, but not cable.

DISH NETWORK RECORDER LEGAL BATTLES CONTINUE
Showing no signs of moving toward a speedy conclusion, the litigation taking place between Dish Network and the broadcast networks over the ad-skipping, prime-time recording, and Slingbox functions of Dish Network’s latest multiroom digital video recorder continued to plod through courts on both coasts, with most of the activity taking place in the cases involving Fox and CBS.

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MAY 15, 2013

SIDES PAINT VARIED VIDEO PICTURES AT HEARING

OPRAH OPENS DISH NETWORK TEAM SUMMIT

SPRINT BID LEADS TO DISH NETWORK DEBT OFFER

DISH NETWORK EXEC PLAYS UP SPRINT BID BENEFITS

MCCAIN DEFENDS A LA CARTE AMID DOUBTS

AEREO SETS CHANGES; DRAWS ATTENTION AT HEARING

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