Almost a week ago after DISH Network released a $2 dividend for investors, their chairman and CEO Charlie Ergen stated that the company is trying to avoid heavy discounting of prices. He acknowledged that the discounts given correlated with the increase in their third quarter subscription gains. During a conference call after the Q3 results were released, he said, “I hate giving away programming. I hate the discounting we do today; in part it does cause you problems on the back end.”
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