Charles Ergen

Shares of connectivity behemoth Dish stumbled after its founder and long-term CEO announced he will resign from the chief executive position.

Cord-cutters — who needs them? Annual television subscriptions at Dish Network have fallen three years in a row, but founder Charles Ergen isn’t losing sleep over it. In fact, he’s the richest he’s been in years.

LightSquared’s long-awaited reorganization plan confirmation got underway in Manhattan this afternoon with day one of what is expected to be a two-week hearing. Lawyers for LightSquared and SP Special Opportunities – the special purpose vehicle set up by Dish Network founder Charles Ergen, and the sole creditor opposed to LightSquared’s proposed [...]

Dish Networks founder Charles Ergen and his “helpers” used “the type of non-denial denials that the White House offered when confronted by the Watergate break-in” to mask the Dish board of directors’ knowledge and acquiescence in a scheme to fraudulently acquire $1 billion in LightSquared senior debt claims, lawyers for [...]

SP Special Opportunities, the special purpose vehicle that Dish Network founder Charles Ergen set up to purchase about $1 billion in senior LightSquared LP debt, is offering the company a new $33 million debtor-in-possession credit facility priced 300 basis points less than the loan for which LightSquared is currently seeking [...]

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed Jerome Kaiser among the witnesses expected to testify. In fact, Dish Network Treasurer Jason Kiser will take the stand. L-Band Acquisition Corporation, the Charles Ergen-controlled entity that has offered $2.2 billion in cash for LightSquared’s wireless spectrum assets, could terminate its offer [...]

LightSquared filed a lawsuit against DISH Network, EchoStar Corporation, and Charles Ergen late Friday, largely echoing a prior suit filed by the company’s majority equity holder, Harbinger Capital Partners. The judge overseeing LightSquared’s Chapter 11 proceedings last month said Harbinger may not proceed on its own in its lawsuits accusing Ergen of [...]

LightSquared Inc. filed a motion late Thursday to intervene in the lawsuit that its largest shareholder, Harbinger Capital Partners, is pursuing against the company's largest debt holders, Charles Ergen and DISH Network, but only to the extent that the company wants a final decision on whether Sound Point, Ergen's hedge fund, legitimately [...]

Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners sued Dish Network Chairman Charles Ergen this afternoon seeking more than $2 billion in punitive and compensatory damages for an alleged fraudulent scheme to assume control of LightSquared and its valuable wireless spectrum. Harbinger’s suit reiterates many of the accusations it has made in LightSquared’s bankruptcy court proceedings [...]

  DISH Networks (NASDAQ:DISH) announced Monday that it reached an agreement with Gannett Co. (NYSE:GCI) to continue carrying that company's ABC, CBS and NBC-affiliated content to 2 million customers in 19 cities that Gannett operates in, including Phoenix, Denver and Minneapolis. Today, DISH's stock is up 4.4%, lining the pockets of [...]

Ralph Lauren, Charles Ergen and Carlos Slim were a few of the 11 winners among the real-time-billionaires today.

News today is that billionaire investor Carl Icahn lost out on his bid for Blockbuster video to Charles Ergen. Presumably, with the capital that was going to go toward Blockbuster free again, will he continue filling up on organic and natural foods stock Hain Celestial Group (HAIN)? It's a question worth asking. [...]

Rupert Murdoch and rival Charles Ergen duke it out.

Rupert Murdoch finds a way to knock out satellite service to customers of rival Charles Ergen's EchoStar.

Reliance Group needs Carl Icahn's approval for restructuring plan; EchoStar's Charles Ergen to raise $3 billion for Hughes bid; Henry Schacht sees Lucent get downgraded.

EchoStar's Charles Ergen may thwart Rupert Murdoch's merger with Hughes Electronics; Lockheed's Vance Coffman forms strategic alliance with Microsoft.