Following yet one more judicial strike against their case, sister companies Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) and Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) finally have admitted the need to get licenses for use of DVR technology patented by Tivo. The satellite distributor and technology companies will pay TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) $500 million over the…

Charlie Ergen just added another kind of home entertainment business to satellite operator Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) (NSDQ: DISH, picking up Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) in a bankruptcy court auction with a bid worth about $320 million. (For fun with numbers, Ergen bought Sling Media in 2007 for $380 million). Whether…

After two weeks of dead air and hot air, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) finally found enough good faith to reach a deal in “principle” late Saturday afternoon—putting three Fox stations and several cable nets back on the air for more than three million cable subs. The…

Charlie Ergen’s top competitor may get in the way of his efforts to take control of Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) Radio. Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), majority owner of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV), and Sirius XM are in “preliminary” talks, DealBook reports, citing “people briefed on the negotiations.” Ergen is chairman of…

So much for all those people who bought Sirius (NSDQ: SIRI) stock last week. The company’s shares almost doubled on Feb. 4 following reports that EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) CEO Charlie Ergen was aiming to cut a deal with Sirius to take control of the beleaguered satellite radio operator. But it’s…

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Echostar Chairman and CEO Charlie Ergen made a move to take control of Sirius (NSDQ: SIRI) Satellite Radio starting several months ago. The Satellite TV mogul apparently approached Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin late last year offering to inject capital into the ailing…