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Dish Network Corp lost more subscribers than expected because of promotions from rivals such as DirecTV, but the satellite television provider paid its shareholders a surprise dividend on Monday.

Dish Network posted strong earnings Monday, but a loss of subscribers could foreshadow problems in the future.

DirecTV's record number of quarterly subscriber additions show that even in a tough economy Americans will pay up for one of their favorite pastimes -- live sports on TV.

DirecTV's net income boomed in the third quarter after adding on a significant number of subscribers in both Latin America and the United States.

DirecTV Group (DTV.O) posted a higher quarterly profit on Thursday as it won U.S. video subscribers away from rival cable companies with a giveaway of its exclusive National Football League games package.

Hey Trojans, Bruins and Kings fans: Game over.

A dispute has broken out between News Corp owned Fox Networks and DirecTV Group, the largest U.S. satellite TV provider, over carriage fees that could potentially lead to DirecTV pulling the plug on Fox channels from Nov 1.

DirecTV is expanding its NFL Sunday Ticket television package, which lets viewers watch football outside their local markets, to see if it can make some extra money from broadcasting the games on the Internet.

EchoStar and Hughes had originally entered into a $26-billion merger agreement in October 2001.

The deadline for initial bids in the auction for Hulu was extended from Wednesday until the end of the week to allow interested parties more time to examine the online video site's financial information, according to people familiar with the situation.

Bids for Hulu are due on Wednesday from a collection of tech and satellite giants -- with Yahoo, Google, Amazon and DirecTV among the likely contenders.

Comcast has dropped the ball in its court offensive against DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket package, Comcast announced on its corporate blog Friday.

Sony?s decision to cut the price of its already popular gaming console Playstation 3 has brought about a hike in sales at several retail outlets.

Lionsgate is getting into the early video-on-demand game and their pulling out some big guns to help them -- Taylor Lautner.

Dish Network Corp. and its former unit EchoStar Corp. have agreed to pay TiVo Inc. $500 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit over use of its 'Time Warp' digital video recorder (DVR) technology.

DISH Network has bought Blockbuster's assets for a mere $320 million.

A new 3-D television network from Discovery Communications, Sony Corp and Imax Corp will launch Sunday on satellite TV provider DirecTV.

Netflix Inc shares soared as high as 15 percent in morning trading as investors and analysts cheered the company's strong results.

DirecTV Group plans to expand its customer base by offering cheaper TV packages with fewer channels and exploring new ways of bundling Internet access with its satellite TV service, the company's top executive said on Thursday.

DirecTV Group expects to add significantly in excess of 200,000 net new subscribers in the United States in the current quarter, Chief Executive Mike White said on Thursday.

Google Inc said on Wednesday it will sell advertising spots on 11 cable networks carried by satellite television operator DirecTV Group.