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DirectTV Will Buy Dish and Sling TV for $1 and a Bunch of Debt

The broadcasting industry landscape has changed significantly since the two satellite providers first tried to merge in 2002 and were blocked by federal regulators.

Dish Network Confirms Hack Following Chaotic Multi-Day Outage

The telecom company's websites and customer service system have been down since Thursday. Dish attributed the ongoing issues to a "cybersecurity incident."

Sling TV Owner Dish Is Doing the Dumb Thing

Dish, the parent company of popular streaming service Sling TV, is reportedly pressuring employees to return to their offices despite employee concerns over the current covid-19 crisis—and despite two deaths and dozens of presumed positive cases within the company. Dish, meanwhile, is framing the move as a kind of necessary evil by characterizing itself as…

Dish Aims to Become Fourth Biggest Wireless Carrier Now That Boost Mobile Buy Is Official

As part of T-Mobile’s contentious mega-merger with Sprint, one of the Federal Communications Commission’s stipulations was that new T-Mobile would have to sell off some its holdings, including Boost Mobile. And today, in a deal worth $1.4 billion, Boost Mobile’s new owner Dish has finally begun its attempt to become the U.S.’s fourth nationwide wireless carrier.…

Sprint Sacrifices Virgin

Ahead of an official ruling on the proposed megamerger between T-Mobile and Sprint, all Virgin Mobile USA users will be moved over to Boost Mobile beginning next month. RIP VMU. A spokesperson for Sprint confirmed the news and told Gizmodo that it began notifying customers about the change earlier this week. In a statement, the…

T-Mobile and Sprint May Offload $6 Billion in Assets to Dish As Part of Merger Deal With DOJ

Dish Network Corp. is “in talks” to buy up assets that T-Mobile and Sprint are planning to sell off in order to have their terrible merger approved by antitrust authorities, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Sources familiar with the discussions told Bloomberg that Dish may announce a deal to buy up “assets including wireless spectrum and…

Dish Made a Slick Cordcutter Box That Lets You Watch Local Channels

There are a bunch streaming boxes available for cord cutters, but the new AirTV box from Dish has a very cool twist: integration with local, over-the-air (OTA) antenna channels. It also streams in 4K. Rumors of the AirTV box first appeared at the end of the year, but now we’ve got all the details. A…

T-Mobile And Dish Considering Merger, Says WSJ

2015 has already seen a number of attempts from telecoms companies to merge; according to the WSJ, you can add another multi-billion-dollar deal to the ‘maybe’ column. The WSJ quotes “people familiar with the matter” saying that T-Mobile and Dish are in talks to merge, a deal that would create another leviathon telecoms company. T-Mobile…

Dish Just Agreed To Blanket San Fran With This Crazy New Cellular Tech

Dish wants to be a mobile phone carrier. Dish wants it bad. And Steve Perlman—the genius behind QuickTime, WebTV and OnLive—has spent over a decade working on tech that could allegedly leapfrog our current cell networks. So guess who just teamed up to potentially revolutionize the mobile internet? Yep. Dish just agreed to lease some…

​Sling TV Review: Holy Crap, We’ve Figured Out Internet Television

At some point, TV became complicated. It used to be this thing I would plop down in front of after school and mindlessly flip through. Then, in 2009, everything changed: analog signals were outlawed, and the new digital TV signals failed me in every way: my old television wasn’t compatible, my house was too far…

Dish’s New Joey Set-Top Box Is All About 4K

I like 4K. You like 4K. CES 2015 definitely 4K, and Dish is finally adding the ability to stream in this most coveted resolution with the 4K Joey, a set-top box that gives all Ultra HD TVs with HDMI 2.0 support and HDCP 2.2 support. The device itself is pretty discreet. Dish says you should…

The Supreme Court’s Aereo Decision Won’t Screw Up Dish (Yet)

The Supreme Court’s decision against Aereo was a huge bummer for cord-cutters. Even worse, some content providers (coughFoxcough) were trying to use to hit other similarly awesome services as well, like Dish’s “Anywhere” streaming. Good news: It didn’t work. Yet. Right after the Aereo verdict came down, Fox asked the 9th Circuit for a preliminary…

Report: Dish Is Working on a Web-Based TV Offering For $20-$30/Month

A day after Dish announced that it’ll carry Disneywithout skipping through ads, Bloomberg is reporting that Dish is cooking up a web-based TV offering that will only cost you 30 bucks a month, max. According to Bloomberg, this deal is the first of many for a Dish internet streaming service for only $20-$30. It would…

Dish Is Nuking Its Hopper DVR’s Magical Ad-Skipping Feature for Disney

Dish’s HopperDVR is awesome precisely because it makes it so easy to skip ads. The WSJ reports that the company will be scaling back the awesome auto-skipping feature on some Disney programming. It seems that consumer choice Dish has been claiming to protect for years goes out the window, presumably when it gets a cut…

You Can Record a Ridiculous 8 Shows at a Time with Dish’s New DVR

Dish’s Hopper, long the king of DVRs, just zoomed even farther ahead: it’s introducing a new SuperJoey, an improved version of their client receivers to its main DVR the Hopper. The improvements? It’ll be possible to record 8 shows at once. That’s insane. DISH has also introduced a Wireless Joey along with the ability to…

Dish App Puts a Hopper DVR Directly Into LG Smart TVs

The DISH hopper is probably the slickest DVR that’s ever been made. It’s so good that big TV corporations like CBS are suing DISH over it. Well now the Hopper is going to be even more convenient for owners of LG Smart TVs because the new Dish App builds a Hopper directly into the TV.…

A Private Venture Wants to Build a Telescope on the Moon

There might not be a man on the moon right now—but there may soon be a gazing eye. A new private venture aims to build a long-range telescope on our planet’s little satellite, and it could happen as soon 2016. A partnership between Moon Express, Inc. and the International Lunar Observatory Association is all set…

You Can Watch Live TV In-Flight on Your iPad on Southwest Now

Flying can be so very boring. But Southwest Airlines is making it a little less of a yawn fest, and it won’t cost you anything. The airline just added a free, on-demand and live TV inflight streaming service called TV Flies Free in partnership with DISH. TV content is accessible through the Dish Anywhere and…

Dish has kicked off a $25.5 billion bid to acquire Sprint—to try and derail a purchase by Japanese carrier Softbank.

Dish’s Newest Hopper DVR Has Sling Built In and Can Wirelessly Transfer TV Shows to Your iPad

Dish, which introduce the king of DVRs last year, has updated the Hopper DVR to include Sling. Previously, using Sling with Hopper required an adapter. Now, you get to watch live and recorded TV from any tablet, smartphone and computer for free with Dish’s Anywhere App. https://gizmodo.com/dish-networks-new-hopper-dvr-is-the-king-of-dvrs-5874469 On top of Dish with Sling, Hopper makes…