Even as sales of its pioneering digital video recorder have continued to decline, TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has been using its patents to try to get licensing fees out of the big players in the DVR business. There have been various lawsuits and counter-suits, but the fundamental question is whether TiVo…

More actual news tied to CES… Satellite service EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) has acquired streaming video company Move Networks, as it looks to join forces with one of the companies that are among many these days that are associated with pay TV cord-cutting. The over-the-top startup put itself up for sale…

A fresh blow for TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) in its ongoing patent battle with Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS). The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected TiVo’s claims to two patents the companies are battling over in federal appeals court. A federal court had ruled in TiVo’s favor in…

TiVo’s March court victory in its patent battle with Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) could be erased, as a federal appeals court has agreed to rehear the case. The pronouncement wasn’t unexpected. The legal fight, which has dragged on for six years, concerns whether the satellite companies infringed on TiVo’s…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) won another court round against Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) when two members of a three-judge federal court panel sided with a lower court ruling that the satellite companies are in contempt of a permanent injunction prohibiting infringement on its DVR patents. But the fight, ongoing in…

Looking to expand its footprint into Latin America and beyond, EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) is acquiring a stake in Mexican satellite company Satmex in what will ultimately be a $374 million cash deal. EchoStar’s existing Mexican partner, MVS Comunicaciones, the operator of the Dish Mexico satellite TV service, is assisting the…

Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH), co-opting a term popularized by the cable industry, announced a “TV Everywhere” suite of products geared around EchoStar’s Slingbox to let subscribers access live TV and DVR recordings over the Internet and home wireless networks while EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) rolled out a similar line aimed at…

Dish Network has filed for trademark protection on “TV Everywhere,” which the satellite operator apparently is seeking to use for its forthcoming Slingbox-enabled set-top box. It has established a “TV Everywhere” section of its website that references its remote DVR programming features and includes a link to Sling Media, the…

Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) has reached a deal to invest $530 million in Sirius XM, ending weeks of speculation over whether Liberty or EchoStar would emerge as Sirius’ white knight. The deal allows Sirius, which has been bogged down with debt problems, to avoid bankruptcy (at least for now). The…

Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) will offer Sirius XM a $250 million secured loan designed to “rescue” the company from the advances of EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) CEO Charlie Ergen, the FT reported. The EchoStar head has been attempting to win control of Sirius in recent weeks by purchasing the troubled satellite…

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…

Satellite TV provider Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) Corp. has been quietly buying up portions of Sirius Satellite Radio’s debt, WSJ reported. That set off rumors that Echostar CEO Charlie Ergen may be making a play for control of the satellite radio provider in an effort to to build its business, which…

Little more than a year after Sling Media’s sale to EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS), the co-founders and the top team at Sling Entertainment are leaving the company, paidContent.org has learned. The news is being broken to staff in meetings going on now. Departing are brothers Blake and Jason Krikorian, respectively CEO…

EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) posted a Q3 net loss of $308 million, a significant widening of last year’s $7 million. Like its Siamese twin DISH Network, which just reported a 54 percent decline in net income, it cited impairment charges tied to investment holdings. Basic loss per share was $3.43 for…

Sling Media, the place- and time-shifting device company that is now owned by Echostar (NSDQ: SATS), is launching something that seems counter-intuitive on the face of it: a free, ad-supported online video portal aggregating video from various professional sources like TV networks, studios and other independents. Sling.com will launch as…

For now, EchoStar’s fate is closely tied to that of its surgically separated Siamese twin DISH, which just reported sharply lower sub growth: Total revenue grew 23.8 percent to $554.5 million in the quarter, and of this about $464 million or 84 percent came from sales of equipment and services…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has won another round…  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C has denied EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) a rehearing of its loss to TiVo from back in January. A lower court had ruled that EchoStar must pay TiVo $73 million for infringing on…