Satellites Align: Dish and DirecTV Could Be the Next Big Media Merger

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Satellites Align: Dish and DirecTV Could Be the Next Big Media Merger
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Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Charlie%20Ergen&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_**_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:**AVSYND&lr=-lang_ja) recently contacted DirecTV Chief Executive ******r Mike White (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Mike%20White&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_**_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:**AVSYND&lr=-lang_ja) to discuss a merger of the two satellite television companies, according to several people with k**wledge of the matter. Shares of both companies rose.

Ergen made the approach in response to Comcast Corp.'s $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc. in mid-February, one of the people said, asking **t to be identified discussing confidential information. White is reluctant to push forward with formal talks out of concern regulators may block the deal because the two companies directly compete with each other, a**ther person said. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/26/possible-dish-directv-merger/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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